A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework.
Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district from the youngest learners up through high school seniors have been required to do schoolwork at home. Parents can request practice problems if they’d like, Superintendent Jonathan Garrett said, but that work won’t be mandatory or graded.
Homework assignments, it turned out, were among the biggest sources of complaints Garrett had heard from parents and students over the years.
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