Is extra work at home worth it?
(World News South Africa)

Johannesburg - Before the teachers at De La Salle Holy Cross College Junior School assign homework, headmaster Neil Berndsen asks them to consider one key question: Is the extra work at home worth eating into the already limited time the school´s young pupils have at home? `If they feel it is worth it, then they must go for it,` he says. `But they mustn´t just give homework for the sake of it.` There are other `golden rules` for the teachers at the Catholic primary school in Victory Park, north of Joburg. Homework can only be assigned on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays - Wednesdays are strictly family nights. And it mustn´t exceed 15 minutes for young children and 30 minutes for children in...