ABSTRACT
Homework is one of the most controversial issues in modern secondary school education. Its importance is continuously declaimed by politicians, Inspectors, school managers, parents and ex-pupils. The most-common criticism that parents will make of schools or teachers is they are not setting enough homework. The first cry of most teachers is that they set homework but many pupils don’t do it and their parents do nothing about it. The teachers blame the parents who blame the school. The politicians blame the Inspectors who blame the schools.
