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WATCH: Mum's furious rant about parents doing kids' homework

An angry mum has gone on a rant over parents of children from her four-year-old son’s class hijacking their homework projects.

Sarah Thompson from County Armagh in Northern Ireland recorded a message to the parents of her little boy’s classmates on Facebook – condemning them for doing their homework for them.

The 37-year-old mother of three makes mention of a recent project where kids had to build their own houses. She claims her little boy Noah spent a week working on his house with materials he found around the home.

“My problem is this homework is for the children,” she says.

Ms Thompson's video has more than 20,000 views. Source: Facebook
Ms Thompson's video has more than 20,000 views. Source: Facebook

“If the kids did make them [the houses] they have got some serious careers ahead of them – I would say in architecture. That homework is for the child. It is not for the parents.”

Ms Thompson says there’s no part in the homework book that “it’s the parents’ responsibility to sit down and glue it all together and come up with the idea, and give it so many stories, give it an air vent for the oven”.

“I know what a four slash five [year old’s] house should look like,” she says.

“And some of them ‘aint rockin’.”

Ms Thompson says what broke her heart is how her son felt after he compared his project to theirs.

"He spent all week perfecting his design and construction as only a four-year-old can and he was delighted with this work,” she said.

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"When Noah took his house project into school he was devastated because of a number of the other kids' projects where like something from Grand Designs.

"Before he went into class he thought his homework was great and he was delighted. But on reflection after seeing other homeworks he thought his was rubbish.”

The video has received more than 20,000 views with many sympathising with Mrs Thompson and her little boy.

“Sarah my Haydn came home and also told me his house was rubbish,” one woman commented.

“It’s heart breaking when they put so much work into their projects and come home disappointed.”

Another parent said it was becoming a competition between parents to see who could have the best project.