They must sit for up to an hour per school day to complete tasks in disciplines that the classroom instruction time should have sufficed to impart.
Hertzeliya, January 8 – Students and student organizations at the Bialik Elementary School, as well as allied groups from outside the school, condemned today the quantity of assignments that the students must complete outside the classroom, calling the tasks far in excess of the appropriate amount. They also deemed the intensity and duration of those assignments a violation of international humanitarian law.
Fifth- and sixth-graders at Bialik posted denunciations of their teachers’ homework policy and produced announcements to the press calling their workload disproportionate to the educational aims of the classes, especially given reports that some schools give no homework at all. They further alleged that the very assigning of homework imposes unlawful restrictions on the students, whose rights to freedom and the pursuit of happiness are curtailed when they must sit for up to an hour per school day to complete tasks in disciplines that the classroom instruction time should have sufficed to impart.
“It’s not just the homework assignments themselves,” railed Étudiants sans Frontières in a statement. “We also get larger projects that demand even more time, even on weekends or into the late evening. That’s way out of proportion to the stated didactic aims of the lessons. It also violates humanitarian law in myriad ways.”
Academy International stopped short of calling the practice genocide, but did not mince words in its statement. “The International Criminal Court must step in to bring the perpetrators of these atrocities to justice,” the organization’s statement read. “Prosecutors must conduct a thorough investigation. Initial indications from eyewitnesses point to serious questions regarding the school’s adherence to international law.”
School officials denied the allegations. “Our procedures are thoroughly vetted by professionals,” insisted principal Ben Natan. “All accusations of violations should be directed at groups of troublemaker students who exploit and weaponize the misguided empathy of outsiders who either do not know or refuse to acknowledge the sinister, destructive aims of the cliques. Our faculty will continue to assign as much homework as didactically necessary to meet objectives.”
Educational consultants and activists decried reports that students might transfer out of Bialik to institutions less likely to abuse them with too much homework. “That would be facilitating pedagogic cleansing,” insisted Student Rights Watch director Kent Ross. “It would reward the school administration’s disproportionate use of homework. The international community cannot allow such atrocities to continue. All people of conscience must call for a cease-homework arrangement to be implemented at once.”
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