Children and parents pleaded with Education Minister Norma Foley to step in and introduce a homework ban after it was suggested by President Michael D Higgins.
In letters to the minister, kids wrote about how they were being forced to give up hobbies because they were given so much work to do after school.
In one note, a pupil wrote about how seven hours of school each day was “plenty of education” and that more work on top was unnecessary.
