Brandy Young, a primary school teacher in Texas has banned homework for her pupils and instead asked to spend more time at home with their families.

In a letter distributed during a parent-teacher night in she explained her decision to do away with homework for the school year.  

“After much research this summer, I am trying something new,” the letter reads. “Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year.” Ms Young said that there were a lack of studies which demonstrated that homework improves the academic performance of students."

She recommended instead that parents “spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success.” “Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early,” she said. Ms Young said her students “work hard all day.” “When they go home they have other things they need to learn there.”
“I’m trying to develop their whole person; it’s not beneficial to go home and do pencil and paper work.” Samantha Gallagher, whose child attends the primary school posted the letter on Facebook which has since gone viral. She praised the ‘innovation’ of Ms Young and said she believes the new policy will benefit students greatly.