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Technology Becomes Most Popular Homework Excuse
Credit: Paul Grover / Telegraph.co.uk
A study of pupils and teachers found lines such as "I dropped it on the way to school" are a thing of the past. Modern children are more likely to claim "I finished my homework but deleted it by accident," "The Internet was down" or "my printer broke."
Claire Galbois-Alcaix of online backup company Mozy, which carried out the study of 500 teachers and 1,000 pupils in the United Kingdom, says: ''Our research has discovered that many U.K. schoolchildren are using technological errors with their teachers. And computer crashes or accidentally deleting work, are the perfect modern-day excuses to get out of homework."
The study found three quarters of teachers have noticed an upsurge in the number of pupils blaming technology for not doing homework. In the list of top ten modern day excuses eight are technology-related.
From Telegraph.co.uk
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