Which of the following statements are true according to the passage?(…

Read the passage and answer the questions given below it.

The homework diary is the thinnest book in a Class 3 bag, and in my twelve years of teaching it has caused more trouble than all the others put together. Every evening it carries home a worksheet, a page of sums, sometimes a project on the solar system that no eight-year-old could finish alone. Every morning it comes back with the answers filled in, often in handwriting that is clearly not the child’s.

So I understand the schools that have dropped homework for their junior classes. Children of seven or eight already spend six hours a day at school. Research on homework for young children is mixed, and most of the gains seem to come later, in the senior classes. A tired child copying sums at nine at night is not learning arithmetic. Much of what we send home only keeps the pencil moving.

Yet I would not stop it altogether. Some things grow only with a little practice every day, and reading is the clearest of them. A child who reads aloud for ten minutes each evening comes back after the winter break a different reader. For children whose homes have few books, the school bag may be the only place a story comes from.

What needs to go is the heap of worksheets, not the habit. This year my class takes home one short task a night, and on Fridays nothing at all. Last Friday a boy asked if he could take a storybook home anyway. I let him, and did not write it in the diary.