End homework that counts toward grades, and finish all practice for learning during school hours
In short
- Schools require all work that affects grades or promotion to be done at school.
- Schools stop teaching in ways that count on parents helping at home or kids going to cram school.
- Every school opens a study room each day after class, with teachers or helper adults there.
- Kids may still study at home on their own, but that work never counts toward scores or grades.
If this comes true
A twelve-year-old boy whose parents work at the market until night finishes his fraction practice in the after-school study room, walks home with nothing to carry, and helps his little sister get dinner ready.
Perhaps
Because gaps are harder to open up inside school, kids from wealthy homes might move to evening cram schools, and the gap might keep growing where no one can see it.
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The proposal in detail
This applies to schools from compulsory education through the end of secondary education. The central rule is that any work used to decide grades, promotion, recommendations and the like must be work that can be finished during school time, using desks, books and devices the school provides. Grading homework done at home is not allowed, and neither is lowering a grade because homework was not turned in. Lesson plans that leave students behind unless they prepare at home, such as by watching a video or asking family, are also banned. If a school does teach in a way that depends on learning at home, it must guarantee the time and tools for that preparation inside school. In return, each school opens a study room every day for a set period after class, watched over by teachers, learning assistants and adults from the community, so that practice and the finishing of long assignments can happen there. The cost of staffing this time is not paid by making teachers work overtime, but by national and local governments, as a budget for hiring new people. As an exception, reading for fun and free learning that children choose for themselves may continue at home, but it does not count toward evaluation. Long-term research and creative projects, if they are to be evaluated, are given time to be worked on at school. The change takes several years, and schools switch one by one, starting with those that have enough people for their study rooms.
BenefitsGrades show a child's own ability, not their home situation
All work used for evaluation is finished at school, with the same tools and the same supervision, so help from home no longer mixes into the scores. A craft project a parent made for the child, or an answer copied from a method taught at cram school, is no longer measured on the same scale as an answer someone struggled through alone. Teachers and helper adults can also watch practice as it happens, so they learn where a child got stuck the moment their hands stop, not from the next day's answer sheet. Struggles that used to hide inside the home become visible at school, and help arrives sooner. Children who care for family or work can spend their time after school on their family without guilt. Arguments between parents and children over homework decrease, and working parents who cannot teach in the evening are no longer blamed for it. Because the assumption that you cannot keep up without cram school falls apart, families who strained to pay for it are relieved of that burden, and school goes back to being the foundation of learning for every child.
DrawbacksLess learning time, and gaps may move to cram schools and family budgets
The biggest cost is that gaps may not disappear but simply slip outside the reach of evaluation. Wealthy families will keep paying for cram schools and tutors even if none of it is graded, and in situations decided outside school, such as entrance exams, that gap will show up as it is. Only the grades inside school become level, and there is a danger that the real gaps become harder to see. Also, with less practice at home, the total amount of practice may fall in subjects that need repetition, such as arithmetic and languages. Chances to build the habit of planning and studying at home on one's own also shrink. Opening study rooms every day takes a lot of people and money, and in areas short of teachers it could end up keeping children at school longer with little real supervision. For children who come a long way by bus, or for whom school is not a safe place, more time at school is a burden. Parents who followed their child's learning through homework lose that window. Choosing this proposal means society accepting these costs and this loss of visibility.
Learn the background
Homework looks fair because every child gets the same assignment. In reality, the same assignment turns out very differently depending on whether the home has a quiet desk, internet or books, an adult who can explain what a child does not understand, and money for cram school. Children who look after siblings, help with chores or live in a small room get low marks not because they lack effort but because they lack the conditions for studying at home. In this way, homework tends to measure what a family has more than a child's ability to learn. There are reasons it has continued anyway. There is too much to teach, so class time does not leave room for practice, and schools have relied on families as an extension of the classroom. Parents who can supervise homework closely tend to be the loudest voices, and many people see a lot of homework as proof that a school is serious. For teachers too, whether work was turned in is an easy thing to judge. Some areas have tried after-school rooms that help with homework, but most remain an add-on for volunteers and still fail to reach the children who really need them. Unless the system of relying on families itself changes, gaps will keep being made inside homes.
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This proposal was written in Japanese by AI (claude-opus-5-5, policy version 2026-10-28a) and translated by AI (claude-sonnet-5-5). Nobody has checked the facts. Read the original (日本語) How the AI writes