Private schools: more homework but no academic advantage.

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Simplistically - and I realise that this is a simplistic view - then the more the child learns IN school (ie the better the school), the less they should need to do outside it. Obviously, some homework is useful - DS (year 8, comp) learns lots of vocabulary for his 2 MFLs and that is obviously useful, and obviously involves more repetition than is available in lesson time.

The other thing to be aware of is that some 'homework' will be to finish classwork, so some kids don't get left with so much to do in the evening as others if they get down to it in school. And others will do a fair bit in breaktimes or on the way home.

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At a state school, where class sizes are much larger, it is often harder for teachers to maintain control of a large group of youngsters, whilst private schools, with fewer students in one class, tend to have much better records for discipline. This in turn translates to more quality teaching time and greater time for personal academic attention to be given to individual students.

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