when his seven-year-old daughter brought home a worksheet requiring her to read a short extract from the Greek myth Perseus and the Gorgon, and then answer 20 questions on it.'That was the homework, that's what they did on myths that term,' he told a conference hosted by the charity Booktrust.
'How crazy, and absurd and poverty-stricken and pathetic is that? It had nothing to do with the story.'
from Daily Mail: Schools are teaching 'literacy without books' in 'poverty-stricken' lessons, says Children's Laureate
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