No homework for students upto class-II, two-hour a week for classes III to V: DSEK

SHAKEELA ANDRABI

SRINAGAR: The School Education Department Thursday said that there shall be no homework for students upto Class-II while only a maximum of two hours a week, shall be for Classes 3 to 5. In a circular issued, the Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK) said that for primary classes, there will be no homework up to Class-Il and a maximum of two hours a week from Classes III-V. The circular reads that in middle schools from Classes VI-VIII, there shall be a maximum of one hour a day that is about five to six hours a week. It read that at Secondary and Higher Secondary level, there shall be a maximum of two hours a day that is about 10 to 12 hours a week. “It has been given to understand that all the concerned teachers of a particular class assign homework without coordinating with each other and thus resulting in heavy burden of homework for a student. This move comes after many parents claimed that their wards were retained in same class for the second consecutive year by giving retrospective effect of NEP-2020. A large of complaints were received from parents regarding denial of admission to their wards by various schools in class 1st on plea that the age of their wards is less than six years and as per NEP 2020, the age for admission in class 1st should be six years, the circular reads.