In 2012, French President François Hollande proposed banning homework in French schools. To support this approach, a grade 12 student and a member of the Gardendale Secondary College student representative council prepared a speech. Aimed at the educators in his school, the student makes some guiding comments and compelling facts to turn the heads of principles, teachers, parents, and classmates against giving and completing homework. Starting your speech with rhetorical questions provokes deep thinking in people's minds. of the listener. Strong statements linking duties to serious illness and then death raise concerns. Although it is the teachers they need to convince, stressful statements about children's health would have a greater effect on the students' parents, as they do not like to think of their children as "stressed and nervous" due to from excessive unnecessary work. Although she clarifies that she does not attribute premature death to homework, she believes it has little or no effect on academic achievement. By mentioning the president and his support for...