Kids went back to school this week after a long break, just on the heels of an educational institution in Montreal banning homework for all their students.

Many of us are wondering if this will become a trend across the country, as this isn't the first school to instate this.

Will it be making its way to Saskatchewan or perhaps the Friendly City? According to the Director of Education of the Prairie South School Division that's not likely.

"In general I'm a little bit leery about school-wide bans, or school division-wide bans," explained Tony Baldwin, simply stating this isn't the first time something like this has come up.

"The other thing you hear about in the news every now and again is schools where cell phones are banned. I see lots of teachers who use cell phones effectively during class time and other teachers who say it's a distraction and kids need to keep them in their pocket."

Baldwin, like most, believes that a decision like this would be circumstantial and a teacher or someone with influence in the school divisions would change their stance many times for a number of reasons.

"It depends on the topic, there was certainly times that it was. I was an English teacher and if we would have done the amount of writing that students were required to do in my class... if we would have tried to do that all during class time, we would have been frustrated and wouldn't have been able to get what we needed done."

He also added that he's definitely open-minded and could see the benefits, along with disadvantages, to either side.

"Certainly there are days that I think it's appropriate not to assign homework and there are other days that I find it's appropriate to assign homework. It's all about the needs of the kids, where the teacher is in the curriculum, what the content is - those are professional decisions that our teachers make and they make 100 of those decisions everyday. They're good at it, so I would leave it in their hands."

According to a study done in 2016 Canadian and American students are spending roughly six hours a week on homework at the age of 15.