Billie Faiers and Jacqueline Jossa say homework should be scrapped for primary school kids

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Billie Faiers and friend Jacqueline Jossa want homework for children in primary school to be scrapped. The duo were chatting for a podcast alongside Billie's sister Sam Faiers on The Sam and Billie Show on Tuesday 22 February.

TOWIE star Billie shared a clip of the trio chatting, which showed them debating the difficulties of making their own children do homework every evening, and all agreed they think the government's education department needs to make a radical change. "Can anyone else relate to this?" Billie, 32, who shares children Nelly, eight, and Arthur, four, with husband Greg Shepherd, captioned her post. "Should they scrap homework for children until they go to secondary school?" she asked in the video clip, as EastEnders actress Jac was quick to declare "100 per cent".

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter "I agree, yes," mum-of-two Sam, 31, then chimed in.

Billie explained that the homework situation in her house causes "so much drama and stress" with her daughter Nelly because she takes her teachers' tasks so seriously. "She gets so anxious about it if she hasn't done it," the concerned mum shared. "And it's awful, that they have to go into school, like with our busy schedules and stuff, so sometimes homework just isn't possible," Jac continued, telling the group that her daughter Ella is only six.The star, who also shares daughter Mia, three, with husband Dan Osborne, went on: "I just don't feel like she should be doing homework three days a week." The trio went on to say that reading and spellings was "fair enough" but anything further than that was simply too much for children of their ages. "Yeah, reading and maybe spellings because.