Time is running out and the parents are worried. With just 10 days left for the schools to reopen after homework .Since the children have enjoyed through their vacations it is their parents who are surfing the internet, painting the charts, writing essays and preparing science models .Some busy parents who are well off but cannot spare time are compelled to send their wards to the “holiday homework special” classes.
Sumedha, who holds classes for completing the children’s homework, says that she charges anything between Rs.1000 and 5000per child depending on the class and volume of homework. Many schools give away prizes for the best homework or add the marks in internal assessment. This makes it almost imperative for parents to get the best quality. Majority of the parents’ complain that the level of the homework is so high that their children are clueless about how to do it. Also many of them fret that the quantum of holiday homework is so much that children fail to complete it within the stipulated holidays.
In spite of all the troubles all parents agree that holiday homework is essential for the children. Some of them opined that homework helps establish and strengthen bonds between them and their children as it brings them close to each other .Some others think that holiday homework keeps the children in touch with their studies when they are not going to school.
Q. The word/phrase ______________in the passage means the same as “expressed opinion”.