What can happen when a commentator on education fails to check for sense before posting:
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| Link: The Sunday Times (subscription access only), ‘Please, Sir! Why is my son reading a crisp packet for homework?’ |
The earlier text has indeed focussed on the writer’s son, but the paragraph directly before this one refers to both children, so the sudden reference to the daughter results in a nonsense. One might also raise an eyebrow at the final sentence since there has been only one recent plural noun and thus the pronoun they seems to be referring to the Doritos…
My daughter aged 11 is given three minutes of homework a week. One weekend he told me…
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