SO the educational stats prove just how poor the system of today’s education really works.

No matter what title you call the school, such as academy or college, it just shows that today’s children do not learn the three Rs as taught in the basic elementary schools of yesteryear.

There is too much reliance on computers and technology in this day and age.

If they were taught properly in the first place, homework would be unnecessary.

I never had any homework during the Second World War, left school at 14 and never had a day out of employment until I retired.

P WAREHAM, Haymoor Road, Poole