Indian education system sucks. My kids are done with their holidays and are now back to school. The elder one is in grade 4 and had tonnes of homework that would have kept him busy for Christmas and New year. I along with him, chose to ignore the homework without even looking at it and let him enjoy the holidays which he enjoyed to the core.
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Life went smooth till we realised that we just had 2 days left for the school to begin and we had not even seen what the homeworks were. We opened the book believing that the teachers would be considerate towards these tiny playful kids, but they were real monsters. The homework they gave made me believe that they all hated kids and also their parents. It looked as if they are pissed with their job and to teach us a lesson they came up with the heartless homework ideas.
So, after getting hours of scoldings from my husband for being so ignorant during holidays, we set on a mission to collect things that were needed for those endless projects that were forced upon us by those lively teachers. Pictures, charts, colors, tapes, what not. When we got the things needed, my son announced that it we need to help him and we ended up doing it all by ourselves.
It took us hours to complete. The charts and projects turned out to be very neat and I wonder if those teachers couldn't recognise that it was an adult and not a child who did the homework. This happens every year and sadly, none of these teachers think a way out of it. I wonder why they can't give homework that these kids can do themselves and at the first place why give homework et Al. Aren't holidays meant to be enjoyed?