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saul,
I agree with you absolutely on this issue. However, one of the problems is that parents increasingly abdicate their responsibilities, and in many cases could not fulfill them even if they were so inclined! And there don't seem to be any good ideas on how to turn that around...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 23, 2006 at 12:44 PM
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Target-driven educational systems are nothing new, and you even see its
ugly head rearing in No Child Left Behind. With less emphasis placed on the humanities and the arts, less emphasis placed on the importance of physical fitness and education, we find an educational system geared increasingly toward the sciences, regimented and ruled. As a people, as parents and potential parents, it is our responsibility to provide our children with the best education possible, and where the public education system fails, we, of necessity, must step forward, either to supplement or rectify -- or both.
Unless you like seeing your disproportionately obese child transfixed by a television or computer monitor, swaying to the electric mantra of the screen and mumbling about MySpace and Sims.
posted by
saul_relative
on September 20, 2006 at 7:59 AM
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Wiley,
your Joyce was obviously very special, and so are you!
posted by
Nautikos
on September 16, 2006 at 4:52 AM
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Nautikos
An important issue that has been developing for a long, long time.
My Joyce was a high school teacher in a co-op environment, and she had those students who had missed out on the simplicity that childhood should be.
When we first met, she had a tough little kid, who was addicted to TV, video games, mostly living in front of a screen.
But he had never had a bicycle, and his family couldn't afford to buy one. (They could afford the TV and video games, hmm)
Anyway, she got me to get a junk bicycle wheel from the scrapyard. We took out all the spokes. We told the lad that every time he passed a test or assignment, and took the video game out of his day, she'd put a spoke in the wheel.
When the wheel was complete we bought him a new bicycle. He rode that thing and it really changed his life, by becoming a kid on a bicycle instead of a kid in front of a screen.
posted by
WileyJohn
on September 15, 2006 at 8:48 AM
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Whacky,
I think most people recognize the problem! Solving it is another matter...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 15, 2006 at 5:47 AM
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Tanga,
well, maybe it
will have a positive effect, somehow...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 15, 2006 at 5:44 AM
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ariel,
thanks for dropping in! It's good that this message is finding a wide audience!
posted by
Nautikos
on September 15, 2006 at 5:43 AM
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Now that is a scary thought...even more so because it is too true.
posted by
Whacky
on September 14, 2006 at 10:10 PM
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Nautikos and Tanga
The world should treat their children as the Spanish do in small-town Spain. BY coincidence, this is quite a major part of the story " The Party" that I posted the other day.
One slways sees children -- often quite small children -- playing in the streets at dusk in our local town.
Most of Spain is healthy ; the rest of the world is profoundly sick.
el tel
posted by
ariel70
on September 14, 2006 at 1:21 PM
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This topic has
been all over the BBC World radio. Kids need too play and just be kids.
posted by
Tanga
on September 14, 2006 at 1:15 PM
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Nautikos
Thank you for your continuing support.
Coincidence, eh? I read this in todays The Times online ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23729-2356837.html
Hasta luego!
posted by
ariel70
on September 14, 2006 at 12:55 PM
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