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Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says

Yeah. I pretty much exploited every angle where my kids could get ahead in life and plan to with my grandkids and the good Lord willing great grand kids and great great grandkids. Believe me...we discussed unfair playing fields...unfair advantages. We discussed investing, careers, college degrees that were worthless vs degrees that would give you a competitive edge. We discussed working hard for the first 40 years to exploit the last 40.

I would never do anything to 'disadvantage' someone else. Thats on their ****ed up parents.
 
Jeez, we better engineer a fix for these horrible advantaged children whose parents are incorrectly parenting.

Lobotomies for children born to parents whom are educated!
 
X Factor said:
Read more at Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says - 9news.com.au




Uhm, what do you think? Is "unfairly" advantaging their children something parents should even concern themselves with or feel bad about? According to the article, it is.
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This is typical liberalism at work, here we have a school system run by teacher unions that you can't fire a teacher for really any cause, performance does not matter. Liberals refuse to allow parents and students to have a choice in going to a school based on performance. Thus they are against a voucher system. Liberalism is more about holding people back, rather than encouraging success.
 
logansrun said:
Maybe we could help them "step up" by giving them free coupons for books every now and then or something.
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You mean more free stuff

"Two-thirds of America’s children living in poverty have no books at home, and the number of families living in poverty is on the rise. Many public and school libraries are being forced to close or reduce their operating hours.
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Billions of dollars have been added to the education system with zero results. How about a voucher system were students can choose a school based on performance. And not be forced in a school that is run by the teacher unions that no one can fire a teacher for incompetence or any other cause for that matter. Union teacher schools have drug down student performance in spite of the billions to try and lift student performance. Teacher unions have destroyed our education system. This is liberalism at it's worst. Pandering to unions for their vote over the needs of the students.

"When we imagine people without books, we think of villagers in places like Afghanistan. But many families in the United States have no children’s books at home. In some of the poorest areas of the country, it’s hard to find books for sale. A study (pdf) of low-income neighborhoods in Philadelphia, for example, found a ratio of one book for sale for every 300 children. Tens of millions of poor Americans can’t afford to buy books at all.
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And why do we have all these poor cities and neighborhoods

Democrats Run America's Ten Poorest Cities - Eagle Rising

And why this

2013 Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities All Run By Democrats - Katie Pavlich

Does any of this suggest there is something drastically wrong here.
 
logansrun said:
Maybe we could help them "step up" by giving them free coupons for books every now and then or something.
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Public library *cough* Public library
 
Well this story takes the prize for the day for telling people to feel guilty for all the children who do not get a bedtime story read to them. To feel guilty because you were/are a good parent and are causing other children to be disadvantaged because of it. You should feel guilty for the bond you have created with your child which will indeed play a role in his success and others don't have. If the idiots running academia these days are so concerned about the disadvantaged because they don't get bedtime stories read to them, may I suggest they give up a percentage of their Cadillac pensions to fund a new program "Bedtime stories for all" Geesh...... just another example why states in this country really need to get back control of their own school systems and idiots like this in academia will be told to shut up and sit down
 
Lursa said:
Public library *cough* Public library
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And my goodness, there are used bookstores all over where books are like 4 for a dollar.
 
logansrun said:
Yes.


Yes, lack of books on poor households with small children to be precise.
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I see you avoided all the real problems that has caused no books in poor households. Failed Liberalism.
 
Most kids don't know what a book is anymore, download them all onto their kindle lol.
 
This thread is the epitome of SP thinking..

Tim-
 
I feel a reading tax in the works.
 
vesper said:
Well this story takes the prize for the day for telling people to feel guilty for all the children who do not get a bedtime story read to them. To feel guilty because you were/are a good parent and are causing other children to be disadvantaged because of it. You should feel guilty for the bond you have created with your child which will indeed play a role in his success and others don't have. If the idiots running academia these days are so concerned about the disadvantaged because they don't get bedtime stories read to them, may I suggest they give up a percentage of their Cadillac pensions to fund a new program "Bedtime stories for all" Geesh...... just another example why states in this country really need to get back control of their own school systems and idiots like this in academia will be told to shut up and sit down
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I've got an idea!

We should demand a Department of Child Rearing and have them make a series of government approved Youtube videos of Hillary or Barack or....Alan Grayson...reading bedtime stories. Then we could have those stories piped into the kids rooms. Sure, the actual parenting isn't really happening but Youtube is probably good enough.

I feel so sorry for the kids today who were raised by their television and it's hard for me to imagine what the future will be when they are all being raised by a tablet and various parenting apps.
 
This is the radio equivalent of click-baiting:

The bedtime stories idea had been suggested by the ABC “as a way of getting attention”, he said.
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They're highlighting an issue by drawing attention to it in a contentious way to generate more interest.
 
X Factor said:
Read more at Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says - 9news.com.au


Uhm, what do you think? Is "unfairly" advantaging their children something parents should even concern themselves with or feel bad about? According to the article, it is.
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I apologize for not reading the whole thread but I just saw this and am on my way to the kitchen to start dinner.

Is this for real? Somebody honestly believes that because all parents don't read to their children, nobody should? Does it follow that because all parents don't feed their children or clothe their children or vaccinate their children or see that they get an education, nobody should? If that is what this person is arguing, I have never heard anything quite so blatantly left-wing stupid idiotic. My two cents. Later all.
 
Lutherf said:
I've got an idea!

We should demand a Department of Child Rearing and have them make a series of government approved Youtube videos of Hillary or Barack or....Alan Grayson...reading bedtime stories. Then we could have those stories piped into the kids rooms. Sure, the actual parenting isn't really happening but Youtube is probably good enough.

I feel so sorry for the kids today who were raised by their television and it's hard for me to imagine what the future will be when they are all being raised by a tablet and various parenting apps.
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Sorta like having mama government entering into your child's bedroom. Why not, they have already intruded into their lunch boxes. They have already intruded into the child's faith by not allowing them to be who they are at school. Many want them to check that in at the schoolhouse door. They have intruded into their closets as many school districts are opting for uniforms so no person in the public school will have to deal with hurt feeling because one parent can buy their kids nice things to wear and another can't. yes I feel sorry for the kids raised today watching T.V, and cellphones and parents out to lunch. But I am also damn pissed at parents who allow it and when their kids have problems wants mama government to fix it.
 
Lutherf said:
Really?!

We now should consider how our good parenting actions might give our kids an advantage in life while other kids don't have that advantage? We're supposed to feel guilty about that? Maybe we should feel guilty about feeding our children healthy meals and providing them with warm, functional clothing too.
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Yep and if you're white it counts double - you get to read to your kids out of white privilege ... and those little kids are benefiting from racism on the backs of minorities in this country for the past 200 years. Now don't you just feel ashamed!
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Just an afterthought. Ben Carson, a renown surgeon who just announced his run for presidency was raised by a mama that couldn't read but had more common sense then many in our society to turn the damn T.V. off and encouraged he and his brother to read.
 
X Factor said:
Read more at Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says - 9news.com.au




Uhm, what do you think? Is "unfairly" advantaging their children something parents should even concern themselves with or feel bad about? According to the article, it is.
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He's absolutely correct in that it makes curriculum in the early grades much more difficult to gear accurately to the wide range of incoming abilities. However rather than discouraging parents from reading to/with their children, more effort should be made to assure parents have the time at home without stress in order to read more with their children.

If one "should" feel guilty then I should feel extra guilty because both my kids were reading at fourth grade level in kindergarten and both had to be skipped a grade. Then to make matters worse I home schooled both during their Jr High years where they again sped way ahead of their counterparts and had to put into all advanced classes when they entered Sr High.

Nope, not going to feel guilty. However, it might be something worth considering some volunteer work....hmmm I wonder if there even is a program to volunteer to for such a thing.
 
vesper said:
Just an afterthought. Ben Carson, a renown surgeon who just announced his run for presidency was raised by a mama that couldn't read but had more common sense then many in our society to turn the damn T.V. off and encouraged he and his brother to read.
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That's great, but exceptions to the rule do not disprove the rule. They're merely exceptions.
 
radcen said:
That's great, but exceptions to the rule do not disprove the rule. They're merely exceptions.
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And me, I see the exception to be celebrated as an example of what can be regardless of a child's lot in life. This woman was uneducated yet she raised a son that is well known for his abilities in the entire world as an accomplished surgeon and he gives his mama the credit for encouraging him to be all he can be. Not every parent is a good parent. It has little to do with economic status. There are a lot of well off folks who are lousy parents. And the answer isn't government intervention through academia to remedy it.
 
X Factor said:
Read more at Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says - 9news.com.au




Uhm, what do you think? Is "unfairly" advantaging their children something parents should even concern themselves with or feel bad about? According to the article, it is.
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Only leftists could come up with this premise (its unfair!), and as we know the lefty solution is to make everyone "equal" by busting them down to the most disadvantaged student-cause thats fair n stuff.
 
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