‘Equality’ in Education: France Mulls Banning Homework

Below is an example of policy absurdity employed by politicians in order to attain the charade of “equality”.

From Washington Post Blog (bold mine)

French President François Hollande has said he will end homework as part of a series of reforms to overhaul the country’s education system.

And the reason he wants to ban homework? 

He doesn’t think it is fair that some kids get help from their parents at home while children who come from disadvantaged families don’t. It’s an issue that goes well beyond France, and has been part of the reason that some Americans oppose homework too.

Hollande’s reform plans include increasing the number of teachers, moving the school week from four days to 4 1/2 days, overhauling the curriculum and taking steps to cut down on absenteeism.

“Education is priority,” Hollande was quoted as saying by France24.com at Paris’s Sorbonne University last week. “An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home,” as a way to ensure that students who have no help at home are not disadvantaged.

This is yet a neat example of the pretentious wisdom by politicians, on what for them is good for society, from which the interests of individuals are subordinated.

In reality, this represents a war on education in the guise of equality. Politicians clearly want to limit people's learning.

 

Yet there is one sure outcome from such daft measures: equality in ignorance. Yes, keeping people ignorant seems a great way to control them.

As French Jurist, Dalloy warned

When ignorance reigns in society and disorder in the minds of men, laws are multiplied, legislation is expected to do everything, and each fresh law being a fresh miscalculation, men are continually led to demand from it what can proceed only from themselves, from their own education and their own morality.