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Re: Stop reading to your child cuz it's not fair to disadvantaged children... WTF??
obviously we should ban reading bedtime stories, in the interest of equality and looking out for the poor kids.
can't be having those greedy kids hoarding all the bedtime stories and using such trivialities to artificially inflate their societal worth... not when poor kids are starving for such stories and winding up as outcasts.
I'll get Bernie sanders on the job.. he's a voice for the little guy.. he can surely bring some equality to the stage here.
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THE ABC has questioned whether parents should read to their children before bedtime, claiming it could give your kids an “unfair advantage” over less fortunate children.
“Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?” asks a story on the ABC’s website.
“Should parents snuggling up for one last story before lights out be even a little concerned about the advantage they might be conferring?”
The story was followed by a broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National that also tackled the apparently divisive issue of bedtime reading.
“Evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don’t — the difference in their life chances — is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don’t,” British academic Adam Swift told ABC presenter Joe Gelonesi.
Gelonesi responded online: “This devilish twist of evidence surely leads to a further conclusion that perhaps — in the interests of levelling the playing field — bedtime stories should also be restricted.”
Contacted by The Daily Telegraph, Gelonesi said the bedtime stories angle was highlighted by the ABC “as a way of getting attention”.
Asked if it might be just as easy to level the playing field by encouraging other parents to read bedtime stories, Gelonesi said: “We didn’t discuss that.”
Swift said parents should be mindful of the advantage provided by bedtime reading.
“I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said.Professor Frank Oberklaid, from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute said he was bewildered by the idea.
“It’s one of the more bizarre things I’ve heard,” he said. “We should be bringing all kids up to the next level.”
obviously we should ban reading bedtime stories, in the interest of equality and looking out for the poor kids.
can't be having those greedy kids hoarding all the bedtime stories and using such trivialities to artificially inflate their societal worth... not when poor kids are starving for such stories and winding up as outcasts.
I'll get Bernie sanders on the job.. he's a voice for the little guy.. he can surely bring some equality to the stage here.