The Minister of Education, Daniel David, on Thursday informed he will sign on Friday the orders regarding homework and, respectively, regarding the support to be granted to students from rural areas, noting that homework should not be a burden, as it is currently, and that there is a need to reduce the great inequities in the education system.
"This week there will be two orders that I intend to sign: the one related to homework, considering that homework has become a burden, and I believe that the new regulation will help both students and teachers, so that we have some benchmarks through which homework can be part of the educational process, instead of being confusing and almost an obstacle for the educational process. If homework becomes a source of stress, you are giving homework for nothing, because it causes conflicts between children, the school, and parents," Daniel David stated on Thursday, at the debate "Rebuilding the school from the inside: mental health, meaning and community," organised by Senate's education committee, in partnership with the INIM Foundation.
He indicated that the second order he would sign would refer to students from rural areas, emphasising that there is great inequity in the education system.
"If you are a student in a rural area, statistically speaking, and I do not event mention the disadvantaged environment here, the chance that you succeed in life is very small, not to mention success in national exams or the baccalaureate," Daniel David added.
The minister mentioned that he tried to reduce these inequalities by merging schools, in order to form larger educational units, with full-time, qualified teachers.
Teachers from schools with good performances, he highlighted, can hold online courses at schools that need help.
"We don't have qualified teachers in these disadvantaged areas, but I don't see why some courses can't be held online - we have an online connection, we have the equipment - by qualified teachers from Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara. And teachers who don't have qualifications in that area can continue with practical activities, homework with children, and so on," explained Daniel David.
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