SRINAGAR: School Education Department Thursday issued a homework schedule for primary classes and said that there shall be no homework for student’s upto Class-II.
In a circular, Director School Education Department said that for primary classes, there will be no homework up to Class-Il and a maximum of two hours a week shall be assigned to classes III to V.
The circular reads that in middle schools from Classes VI-VIII, there shall be a maximum of one hour a day that is about five to six hours a week.
It reads that at secondary and higher secondary level, there shall be a maximum of two hours a day that is about 10 to 12 hours a week.
“Teachers need to work together to plan and rationalise the amount of homework that they assign to students,” it reads.
The order further reads that teachers of a particular class should assign homework after coordinating with each other, thus avoiding the over burdening of homework for a student.
“As such it is impressed upon all the school heads of both government and private schools to ensure homework to students is given as per the School Bag Policy 2020 and is strictly adhered to,” it reads.
