Sixth Class Pupil In Laois Asks Education Minister For Less Homework

She says the environment at home is difficult to work in.

A Laois girl has written to the Education Minister to request a reduction in homework.

Sixth class pupil Grace Fagan from Portlaoise has autism and dyspraxia.

She's finding the amount of home-schooling work overwhelming - and with a very sick teenage sister and another sister with autism - the environment at home is difficult for working in.

She feels so strongly about the issue, she even wrote to Minister Joe McHugh:

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