First of all, one hour of homework a week is typical for an eight year old and is not confined to inner city schools. Having just one hour of homework has no bearing on a child's ability to read or write. Flyboy8 has only one hour a week and reads very well. But as has been suggested, children's ability to read and write and the causes thereof, are for different thread.
How do you imagine these subjects will be addressed for a five year old? Do you think they will be showed videos of local A+E departments full of women covered in blood and bruises, or of men wielding pick axe handles over cowering women?
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Originally Posted by Paul M
*sigh* more political correctness.
No wonder so many pupils these days have no qualifications, more and more of the school week is wasted on useless lessons like this instead of the basic requirements (reading, maths etc).
How about spending the £13 million or more on repairing the schools that are falling to bits.
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As speaks someone who has very little idea of how a school timetable works.