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When Amanda Cockshutt's middle child, Malcolm, was asked by his Grade 7 English teacher to write five pages a week on his feelings about a book, the biochemistry professor told the school bluntly: "He is not doing that." After raising three children through mounds of homework, and working to change the homework policy at their school, Dr. Cockshutt, who teaches at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., and runs her own biotech company, isn't shy about saying no to it.
It's the same view that led Tom and Shelli Milley of Calgary to formalize a legal contract with their children's school that prevents teachers from giving them homework.
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