Educational Theorist: Recent editorials have called for limits on the amount of homework assigned to children  They point out that free-time activities play an important role in childhood development and that large amounts of homework reduce children' s free time, hindering their development  But the average homework time for a ten year old, for example, is little more than 30 minutes per night
Clearly, ttherefore, there is no need to impose the limits these editorials are calling for
In most schools, if not all, the homework assignments given are of a length that does not diverge widely from the average.