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Parents are calling for homework to be banned after a very heated debate on Good Morning Britain.

The ITV chat show was discussing the issue after celebrities including Catastrophe star Rob Delaney and Gary Lineker said their children are getting too many after-school projects from their teachers.

Parenting expert Lorrine Marer argued that because teachers are becoming overstretched by huge classroom sizes they are having to give their pupils extra work at home, and she said this isn't the best way for children to learn.

GMB host Piers Morgan, 53, disagreed, calling people who don't want to help their children do their homework 'lazy parents' who are raising 'stupid children'.

Viewers said homework should be banned as children 'need down time' just like adults do.

Good Morning Britain hosted a heated debate on whether homework should be banned because it takes a way children's free time. Pictured left to right: Charlotte Hawkins, Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Lorrine Marer and headteacher Katherine Birbalsingh

American-born Mr Delaney who lives in London said pupils in the UK get too much homework, and he wants his children to be 'frolicking and drawing and playing football'.

England footballer turned presenter Lineker agreed, saying homework was 'stressful and pointless'.

Ms Marer supported calls for homework to be banned, and said it could happen if teachers got more support.

She said: 'I think teachers have taken on a different role; teachers have now become social workers, counsellors, confidantes, family liaison people, and therefore their time, not every school but in a lot of schools, their time to actually teach is limited. 

GMB viewers on Twitter said homework should be banned (pictured) as children 'need down time' just like adults do when they get home from work

'If you then put the burden of not just delivering homework, preparing homework, but then have to mark it. There are many other ways to deliver education than giving them homework at the end of the day.'

Viewers took to Twitter to support her arguments, with many saying children's home life should be relaxing and not interrupted by homework.

One tweeted: 'If you went to work all day would adults want to continue their job when they got home - kids need down time.'

Another posted: 'You spend enough hours at school without bringing work home. Likewise with work I do work at work I don't bring it home. There is more to life than work!'

The debate was sparked after American actor Rob Delaney, who lives in london said pupils in the UK get too much homework, and he wants his children to be 'frolicking and drawing and playing football'. Pictured: Delaney and his wife Leah at the British Academy Television Craft Awards in London in April

'Scrap the homework & learn them skills that will serve them well in life... if I can avoid the homework i do,' a third said.

Piers said parents who won't help their children with homework are just being 'lazy'.

He claimed that his six-year-old daughter Elise enjoys doing her homework because her parents and teachers are encouraging and make it fun.

Parenting expert Lorrine Marer (pictured) argued that because teachers are becoming overstretched by huge classroom sizes they are having to give their pupils extra work at home

GMB host Piers Morgan, 53, (pictured) disagreed, calling people who don't want to help their children do their homework 'lazy parents' who are raising 'stupid children'

He said: 'I think this country is full of lazy parents who don’t actually want to make their children do their homework. 

'I’ve got a six-year-old daughter who does it every night diligently, does very well at school, she enjoys it because the homework is focused, it's imaginative, she enjoys doing it and everyone around her encourages that this is a good and exciting thing.'

He added: 'I don’t want these parents having children. If you want to bring up a stupid lazy child don’t have them.'  

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