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Re: An old subject revisited




YOUTH

BBC - Family conversations have deteriorated into a "daily grunt" that
leaves young children unable to talk properly, according to the man in
charge of maintaining educational standards in Britain. Alan Wells

Only in the UK would there be _one man_ in charge of education -- In the
end maybe Bush will be reduced to this.

blames television and long working hours and fears that thousands of
families are becoming like the Royle family, the monosyllabic layabouts
in the BBC sitcom, who live in the shadow of the television. He says
that parents should go back to school to relearn how to talk to their
offspring in order to counter a sharp drop in primary school pupils'
linguistic abilities.

And notice that as in the US the blame falls on television and the parents
-- the Union Line -- there is not one word about the crumby schools and the
education and training teachers -- it would seem that the government bears
none of the blame.

And even the journalists falter -- They don't know that the k should be
lower case -- unless of course it is very chilly in London

Courtesy of UnderNews of 16 Jan. 2K+3

Yeah! Send the parents back to school -- but send the bureaucrats too --
and maybe the instructors as well.


Jim Green
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