The ministry of education asked all schools on January 18 not to assign any homework during the students' two week-long semester break, but the minister Nabi Avcı found out that some of the schools did not abide by the new regulation.
As the minister was on a dinner on Wednesday with his colleagues in Ankara, he visited the restaurant's play room to chat with the kids, where he however witnessed them doing homework assigned by their schools, even while riding on a carousel.
Upon this, Avcı called the relevant authorities of the students' schools, which turned out to be private. The minister also called the city's provincial director of national education, asking him to investigate the matter and take the necessary action.
On Thursday, the ministry released a statement saying: "In spite of the regulation that forbids schools from assigning homework during breaks, some students' doing homework -- enrolled in private schools -- even on a carousel, prompted the ministry to take action."
On January 18, the ministry of education sent a document to all of the schools in Turkey, signed by Nabi Avcı, in which it said: "I kindly request you not to give any homework to our students during semester break, for them to spend it in a productive way, to start a new semester in a healthy way and rested, and to allocate enough time to their fields of interest."
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