Stop giving homework to primary and secondary school students

I think that the government should ban all homework for children aged 4-16. This is because children go to school for an average of 6.5 hours a day and then get home and have to do more work, this being homework.

This petition closed on 13 Jun 2025 with 4,621 signatures

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Finland have some of the happiest and most academically successful students in the world. Finland also have almost no homework.


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