After arriving from school, the Empire brings me a note with a guilty look for signing with a note, beginning with the classic red strikethrough "V", which you also know intimately: "Missing paperwork in the book page: 9.

Are these notes and ratings also sometimes going through your neck? I already have a fest. Ríša is doing almost all the tasks myself, I just offer help in advance, but I leave it on it. And if it does not happen, it's a red note over a few lines, and the sad look of the primate, which then carries it for me to sign. I took homework as a voluntary assignment for children to practice the things I learned at school. For some reason, however, the teacher takes this as an obligatory part of the preparation for teaching, which must be enforced on the children (and in part also on the parents).

Our family leisure time at home is considered sacred, and I am convinced that no one has the slightest right to drive or restrict us from outside. And this includes a school with a TU. I have decided that I will respond to the teacher's comment this time not only by signing, but that I will find out how it all works legally, or rather how it should work. So I stuck in the theory of basic education to have my head and heel answer, and it was not just a slap in the water.

So I took the job and studied the Education Act and the Framework Educational Program carefully so that I could give an informed answer. In doing so, I took notes and commas carefully on paper every time I came across a 'homework' when reading the Education Act and the FEP, and then they counted them all.

Not once, my friends! You will not find a single mention of homework here. Likewise, I did not find a word about them in the Ríš school's school order. But even if it was there, it would not be valid, because the school regulations must be in accordance with the Education Act and can not impose new obligations beyond its framework. It can only clarify existing duties, such as when it starts teaching, how to excuse missed lessons, etc. This is stated in both the directors' instructions for the creation of school regulations and the Ministry of Education, with the fact that the school regulations can not interfere with the free time of children, and apply only to teaching.

Finally, I answered Ríšov's remark from the teacher and thanked me for the information and asked what the teacher of the TU as a duty was. I was given the answer that we were going to discuss it in the week at parenting meetings.

So at the parental meetings I asked how the teacher sees it with the homework obligation. According to the teacher, they are obligatory, with the fact that the 15 forgotten tasks in the six months will be a warning to the class teacher, and the repetition will also be a reprimand. I noted that I do not find anything like this in the school regulations, and asked why such a duty therefore gives the pupils the teacher because I do not understand. The teacher remarked that I am the first to ask this and that it is true that this is not the case in the school regulations, but they are obliged to do so on the basis of the internal school regulations, some kind of agreement between teachers and the deputy head about possible sanctions. it is nowhere in writing. I gasped when I joined the "internal school regulations".

I came up with the following analogies:

- Sir, do you know why we stopped you?
- I have no idea
- You are driving 46km / h, so we have a fine 1000K for exceeding the maximum speed of 45km / h.
- But there is no mark here, so the maximum speed 50km / h is permitted by law. So what does my duty arise from not exceeding 45kh / h?
- Actually, 50 is possible, but we have such internal regulations that we will be fined by 45km / h.
- And can I read your text somewhere?
- No, we did that sort of thing on the station with the boss.

That's how I felt like that parent. Does that feel like your hair? What's different about?

You may be wondering why I'm solving the limit of 15 tasks in the middle of the semester (the more so that Risa did not have just 4). I think it's because it basically bothers me. The way someone gets rid of the initial joy of learning often with absurd obligations to practice things they already know, or to replenish the lesson that is not enough to discuss at school, even under the threat of sanctions, which are no longer motivated by internal motivation and learning for the very pleasure of learning, very common. How should this make sense to these children?

I exchanged several emails with my teacher. In the latter, she pointed out, in the school code, that 'pupils are obliged to comply with the instructions of teachers'. In my remark that it is taken out of context, because there is an addition in the Rules of Procedure "instructions of pedagogical staff, issued in accordance with the law and school rules" I have not received a written reply. They do not comply with the school rules, nor with legislation that does not mention such obligations anywhere.

The teacher, however, caught me in the cloakroom and told me that the mail would not be the answer to the mail in agreement with the deputy director, and that the homework was always done and done. Dot. Here I have documented how much it is with the obligatory TUs system-based, and how much it keeps some teachers because they can not even imagine the world without obligatory TUs.

I have already informed the teacher that if we fail to conclude, we can try to ask for help from the school principal who could bring us more light. So it happened. I have sent a question to the director according to 106 / 1999 Sb. about free access to information, outlined his situation and questioned whether his homework duties are duties and whether their failure to discipline them can be disciplined.

The headteacher advocated the teacher, saying that my opinion that DPs are optional will not be taken into account. I have therefore sent another question on the basis of which legal provision it considers to be an enforceable obligation. The Director replied that he was not aware of such a legal provision, but that there was no such requirement against any law. Unfortunately, this is not the case (or rather, thankfully) in the public administration where the school belongs. No one can be forced into duties that the law does not impose - see for example the comparison with the fine above.

After consulting and assisting the lawyer, I gave the following address to the Director. I believe she could help someone else, so I'll put it all in here:
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Hello, Mr. Director.

I summarize my answer to my question by saying that the requirement to do the work does not conflict with the law, but you do not dispute this claim.
As far as the legal aspects of the matter are concerned, the school is a public administration body, that is to say, all the principles of the administrative authorities' activity contained in the Code of Administrative Procedure. One of these principles is the so-called principle of legality (§ 2 (2 of the Code of Administrative Procedure), according to which an administrative authority exercises its power only for the purposes to which it has been entrusted to it and only to the extent that it has been entrusted to it. Therefore, it is not possible to impose obligations that do not expressly support the law. Rules for school pupil education and assessment of educational outcomes are contained in the school and classroom regulations of individual schools, and they must not conflict with the School Act. Again, it must not contain any obligations beyond its scope. According to the Education Act, the competence of the school is limited to the duration of the teaching. In view of this, I am sure that there is no legal grounding of mandatory domestic tasks, even if their assignment is needed for years. Consequently, it is not possible to do so if, in the case of the assignment of a "homework", it is required under sanction.

Finally, you yourself agree with this when you say in your answer that there is no legal provision imposing an obligation for the school to give pupils a compulsory job to work out after the end of the class. However, if you still insist on this duty for your pupils, it is appropriate for the school, as a public authority, to be able to justify this by referring to the legal anchor.

If I look at things only by the eyes of an ordinary dad, homework interferes with our private family time, and I do not mind. A son likes some of them, and if he likes, I like to help with them. But some tasks do not want, and my possible coercion into working on them also interferes with our relationship. Which also bothers me.

From the point of view of psychologists, the duty is imposed by the threat of sanction by external motivation, which is not working for a long time, and destroys the internal motivation. The child, on the basis of this external motivation, fulfills the tasks of fear that he will not be punished, not just because he wants to learn something. I would like my son to keep his taste for learning and self-improvement as long as possible, and I do not like to see how this natural taste and the joy of learning presuppose the obligation to do the TI, forcited by the fear of punishment, destroying. You may know that, for example, in Finland, homeworks have been largely canceled, and yet Finland has been on top of the world-wide ranking of students' success. (If you are interested, I would like to document the resources for all of my claims). So, from my professional and personal point of view, my homework, as a duty, is unreachable.

I understand that some parents still require homework for their pupils. I do not therefore require a flat cancellation of their assignment as such. I only care about that duty and the threat of disciplinary punishment. As a compromise, it seems to me that depositing the TI as a voluntary assignment to practice for pupils who are interested in improving themselves, thereby preserving their inner motivation and the desire to learn and improve. But I do not like the way the school's duty to ensure that education is transferred to my home, or to me, is the task of enforcing homework. I believe that the compromise solution for voluntary homework would be accepted by most stakeholders. I would personally accept it with open arms.

I would be delighted if your school was an advanced school, friendly to pupils and parents that respects the individuality of pupils, and encourages and motivates them in teaching, other than duties and punishments. If she was a school to which she likes to learn where she likes to learn, and she does not have to be educated with a sense of fear of punishment. I would like you to believe that you have the same. For me, the (home) homework is an absolutely crucial issue that I want to continue to address until I get a satisfactory answer to my questions or a satisfactory solution.
I would rather prefer to come to you with a consensus. If you are interested, I also like to accept an invitation to a personal meeting, where we could clarify possible starting points and further steps.
I wish you a successful day.
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The Director has not responded to this mail yet. After two weeks, I called and we talked about the matter at a personal meeting.
The Deputy Director of the Reich School also arrived at the meeting. After about half an hour of relatively pleasant discussion over the points from the last mail we came together to the following conclusion in the minutes:

"School leaders and father agreed that homework should not be assessed or enforced under the threat of disciplinary action, including oral or written admonition."

The deputy promised to ensure that the teacher respected this conclusion, which he did. He will not demand homework anymore, and if the Reich does not have a negative comment, and there is no need to fear any repression. I left the meeting with a warm feeling in my heart. With the sense of being behind her, if it is right on my side, and patiently persevere despite the initial resistance.
Most of all, the idea was that Risa, with him and many other children, would have some pretty childhood, less stress, and more peace of mind for free learning and spending free time with daddy and mom according to her own ideas.

Those who continue to take on the homework duties for their children can do so peacefully at home. I do not have anything to do with how to solve my time with children at home. But I do not see the only reason why someone (and even most) wants their homework beyond the law for their children, it should mean a territorial obligation for everyone else. The way we deal with our own leisure time at home and the preparation for the lessons we take again is ours nothing to do.

As far as I know, most parents still insist on obligatory TIs. Those who have experienced them mostly want them for their children, because they often represent the feeling of something known, unlike a world without mandatory homeland, which is an unknown world, for many perhaps even a world of total chaos and anarchy. But it works without them, and I dare say that much better - see just that Finland. The usual habitat of compulsory homework is likely to run on in the country. This cannot be changed by one dad across the board, nor was it my goal.
I believe, however, that there are many who, like me, lived and may still live with the (un) duty of the TI in ignorance, and this experience can give them another insight.

I told Ríša the news last week. His eyes glowed and he said, "Dense!"

I think it's nice when children see that rules and laws should apply equally to everyone here (if that's the case now, let's leave it aside in all circumstances now), and that we don't have to be just sheep who bend their backs at the first encounter with artificial "Authority" or mostly.
Risha sees that I do my duties at home and at work, because it makes sense to me, and by my own example I lead him to fulfill his own duties. But at the same time, I also lead him to think that not everything that someone requires of him must necessarily be an obligation. For example, they used to call me “duty first, then fun”, which made my approach to duty very disgusted, as if duties could not be fun at the same time.

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I wish everyone to have their own children together with their children in their homework and overall education. In order to spend the most pleasant moments at home with the children at home, without any unnecessary stress and pressure, they instead had the opportunity to fill in some of their own, more entertaining and natural forms of learning, according to their own choices, especially children. I do not want to take this liberty from anyone and I will continue to defend our free time because I know no one else will do it for me.

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