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This is today's Britain
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AnninGlos | Report | 5 Aug 2015 14:41 |
"Children used to come into schools able to dress themselves, use a toilet, sit and listen and use a knife and fork. They usually knew their colours and their numbers and knew how to hold a pencil. Nowadays many can't." |
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Dermot | Report | 5 Aug 2015 15:23 |
A neighbour of mine moaned about the poor standards of teaching where her 5-year old attends. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 5 Aug 2015 15:53 |
...being able to hold a pencil and use a knife and fork..... |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Aug 2015 16:04 |
I'm afraid so, Ann. So much time is spent in schools doing "crowd control" that should be spent teaching. I'm not sure it's just young parents though. Some parents really can't be bothered to make the effort to teach their children the things that our parents taught us before we got to school. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 5 Aug 2015 16:08 |
I am amazed, when eating out, at the number of teenagers, young and old, who are unable to hold a knife and fork properly. I watched one young lady the other day trying to cut up her food. She had no chance the way she was holding her cutlery. I actually wondered if she was left handed and didn't realise that she should have the knife and fork in different hands to her friends. |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Aug 2015 16:20 |
I wonder if it's because a lot of families just don't eat at the table at home, Ann. My left hander uses a knife and fork the right way because he didn't like to be different when he was little. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 5 Aug 2015 16:23 |
Putting aside SN, there could be a number of reasons a child can't use a knife and fork. |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Aug 2015 16:36 |
Good point, Detective. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 5 Aug 2015 17:27 |
As a slight aside. It is strange that I often wonder if it is because parents are young themselves these days so don't seem to have the ability to teach life skills to their children. then I think back to when I had my daughter, I was just 21, OH was 23. I remember my parents friends saying I looked too young to have a child. We had no playgroups or nurseries to send toddlers to so I had my daughter and subsequently my son 24/7. Daughter was toilet trained by 17 months and could read and write her name by the time she went to school at five years old. Son was not so inclined to learn to read early but recognised lettters and was toilet trained about the same age. Teaching them these things was the thing to do. (incidentally by the age of 7 they were both at the same reading age). |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 5 Aug 2015 18:12 |
Ann, I think you may have hit the nail the head, when you say you had your children 24/7. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Aug 2015 18:28 |
Skool is wildly overrated. For the most part in modern Britain its functions are (a) child minding (b) social training which is the responsibility of the parents (c) providing employment for the NUT most of whose members would not have a hope of earning the same money somewhere else. |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Aug 2015 18:55 |
*It should not take 13 years to learn to read and write and carry out basic maths.* |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 5 Aug 2015 19:13 |
I saw the programme and would like to know when the word 'like' began to be used as punctuation. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 5 Aug 2015 19:22 |
I walked into a classroom once to find a list of 10 things on the board, for the children to do by the next lesson. |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Aug 2015 19:31 |
Don't get me started on "should of" instead of "should have". It's everywhere. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 5 Aug 2015 19:47 |
One of my bugbears a well |
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Denburybob | Report | 5 Aug 2015 19:48 |
One of our boys' school report had so many spelling mistakes in it that my wife corrected it in red ink and sent it back. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Aug 2015 19:54 |
"It doesn't for the majority." |
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Dermot | Report | 5 Aug 2015 20:30 |
Some say, the English language is evolving. I say it's going 'to pot' - whatever that really means to the stranger just starting out trying to learn the language. |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Aug 2015 20:34 |
One teacher writes "should of" and you conclude that all teachers are similarly illiterate? |
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