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Bahrain – No Homework

Children, but more so many parents, will be breathing a little easier when their children return home from school.  Why and where, you may ask?  In Bahrain, the Minister of Education, Majid Al Nuaimi, has cancelled homework assignments from school.  Wow!  I know that some teachers around the world may choose not to give their students homework but to have this directive from the top… wow!
One mother is quoted as saying, “It’s not easy at all, and the situation is compounded when she comes home to do assignments that I cannot comprehend.”


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https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-scraps-homework-for-schoolchildren-1.60896325

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