'Why so much homework': 6-year-old Mahira Irfan's appeal to PM Modi sparks real change
India TodayLittle Mahira Irfan’s parents gave her a mobile phone on the condition that she would use it only for online classes. So she filmed herself narrating all the hardships that kids her age were facing and asked ‘Modi Saab’ “Why so much homework?” Amused by the video, Mahira’s father shared it with some friends on WhatsApp. The video began to circulate on the messaging app, before winding up on Twitter, where a journalist posted it with the caption "A six-year-old Kashmiri girl's complaint to @PMOIndia @narendramodi regarding long hours of online classes and too much school work." When India Today approached the school authorities and asked for their reaction to Mahira’s litany of complaints, they said, "Our school remained closed for most of the period during last three years, so online classes are the only alternative to educate students." Acting on LG Manoj Sinha's tweet, in which he had directed the School Education Department to frame new guidelines to reduce the burden of schoolwork on children, the state on Tuesday said that virtual classes for pre-primary and primary students shall not exceed the time limit of 30 minutes and 90 minutes a day respectively.
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