French Socialist President wants to ban homework to enforce social equality

[briann]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/17/frances-socialist-president-finds-something-new-to-surrender-homework/

France’s Socialist president finds something new to surrender: homework
4:51 AM 10/17/2012
 
In “Harrison Bergernon,” a 1961 short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the American government of 2081 forces handicaps on everyone to ensure that no one is smarter, faster, more beautiful, or in any way better than anyone else. It’s supposed to be satire, but Vonnegut’s dystopian future could soon become reality if François Hollande, the Socialist president of France, has his way.

The New York Daily News reports that Hollande wants to ban homework in France in a bid to enforce social equality. Hollande is acting on concerns that children from wealthier families may receive assistance from their parents, while disadvantaged children do not.

As Dave Barry would (hopefully) say, we are not making this up.

The French president announced the proposal as part of a larger set of education reforms at La Sorbonne in Paris last week. Schoolwork must be done at school “rather than in the home if we want to support the children and re-establish equality,” Hollande said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal pointed to an Ifop poll which found that over two-thirds of the country opposes the ban. (Ifop, the French Institute of Public Opinion, is the leading publisher of French market surveys.)

Hollande’s proposed ban has some precedent in France. In the spring of 2012, The Guardian reported that a group of French parents and teachers had sought a two-week boycott of homework in schools. The group complained that homework amplifies inequalities among school-aged children. On top of that, they said, it’s tiresome.

“If the child hasn’t succeeded in doing the exercise at school, I don’t see how they’re going to succeed at home,” said Jean-Jacques Hazan, the president of France’s other main PTA equivalent, according to The Guardian. “In fact, we’re asking parents to do the work that should be done in lessons.”



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[Spiraling Leopard]

This is scary.

[muman613]

Some people are so lazy....

I can't believe that society is coddling kids like this. When I was a kid we had 1-2 hours of homework a night. It is good for a student to keep his mind on the subjects and not have wasted time sitting in front of the computer or television screen.

The socialists seem to want dumber people so they will not be able to comprehend just how bad off they are today compared to yesterday.

[muman613]

What I think of the french:

[syyuge]

With that they will start getting retarded at an accelerated pace and rapidly converting in to muslamics.

[angryChineseKahanist]

That's unfair. They're discriminating against Jewish kids.  Little Jews everywhere will be deprived of doing homework.

[Zelhar]

He is also raising the tax rate to 75% on the rich people, and so starts an exodus of wealth and talent out of France. The French are going to turn their country into a joke of country (some may say they already are).

[HiWarp]

He is also raising the tax rate to 75% on the rich people, and so starts an exodus of wealth and talent out of France. The French are going to turn their country into a joke of country (some may say they already are).

Before we write off France as a joke of a country let's see what the outcome of election day in the US is because, if Obama wins, then the American people have pretty much decided that their solution for the future is the same as France's.

[briann]

He is also raising the tax rate to 75% on the rich people, and so starts an exodus of wealth and talent out of France. The French are going to turn their country into a joke of country (some may say they already are).

I think France is exactly why I hate leftism....    they are a perfect example of what can happen when the left gets too much power.

[Rubystars]

That last image in your post Muman looks like Romney's logo. Or rather Romney's logo looks like it.

[muman613]

That last image in your post Muman looks like Romney's logo. Or rather Romney's logo looks like it.

It was intended to be the colors of the French flag:

[Rubystars]

It was intended to be the colors of the French flag:

I know but I've been saying on my facebook page for a long time that Romney's logo looks like red, white, and blue piece of you know what. 

[serbian army]

I don't know about others but as a kid I had to do homework for about 1.5 h every day and plus study about 2.5 hours just to pass with 4 (equivalent too B in America). In fifth grade you start learning another language and if you plan going to college after high school you must know Latin as well (i mean really know it).

[HiWarp]

I know but I've been saying on my facebook page for a long time that Romney's logo looks like red, white, and blue piece of you know what. 

Let's hope, if Romney wins, his presidency doesn't wind up being a red, white, and blue piece of you know what.

[Rubystars]

Let's hope, if Romney wins, his presidency doesn't wind up being a red, white, and blue piece of you know what.

It can't smell worse than Obama's presidency at least.

[syyuge]

They will start loosing the cutting edge available if any in education, business and technology. Frustrated, they will start banning the outsourcing. With purchase from China nothing will improve. They will turn to communism and with further deterioration raise the beards and convert to muslam and get erased.