A Puzzle.
An article on the free fruit at school fails to improve children's diets. After all fresh fruit is expensive compared to a tin of cheap beans and doesn't store as well. So parents will tend to rely on what is provided free to minimise their costs and waste. A small example of the welfare state in a nutshell. So no real surprises there when you think about it.The puzzler was though, How come that kids don't listen to the five a day, stick in and learn, be good but they listen to the climate change scaremongering. Is it because that's all they really emphasise in school. blah, blah, blah, five a day is good for you, blah, blah, when you leave school your results will count so stick in, blah, blah, Your parents are destroying the planet, you will all be dead because of your parents selfish actions, you need to go back and make sure your parents recycle, don't use the car too much, use less electrickery, gas, conserve water. Could it be that the five a day requires parents to do things that kids have, little, control over. After all who does the shopping and how many kids want to go on a weekly shopping trip to the local store? But how many are there when the bins are being filled.
Some kids in our street, there are six aged 12 to 15 I spoke to, know that the planet is doomed unless something is done, all are aware about saving water but only a couple about five a day, none know any first aid, anything about thinking on their own and so they don't seem to ask questions about the way things are when it does not simply impact them but take them as gospel. Say to one. Pick up the rubbish and they argue till they are blue in the face but tell them all to tidy up before they can play and it gets tidied. When I was at school a teacher told me to question everything and if it can't be explained with verifiable facts then it is suspect and should be considered as such. Maybe that is why I have grown up to be the pain that I have. I look at things and tend to think, that doesn't sound right. Logic tells you one thing, emotion another and lethargy nothing.
So why is it our kids can be indoctrinated by certain things and yet not others. Both put forward by the same group. Could it actually be that our schools are full of hand wringing do gooders who can't do maths or any of the real subjects but are full of religious zeal for certain topics.
Every thing I think of I think of a reason why it's can't be true. But there is clearly something going on in our schools and it isn't good education. It's a puzzler all right.
posted by Bag @ 12:20 pm
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Some kids in our street, there are six aged 12 to 15 I spoke to, know that the planet is doomed unless something is done, all are aware about saving water but only a couple about five a day, none know any first aid ...
Bag, did you go out and accost chidlren on the street? It's a wonder you weren't ASBOd.
They play outside the door and like to poke and prod the grandchild when she goes out undermy supervision. One scraped her knee and I asked about the first aid then and they have asked me before about saving water because I've a few rainwater barrels. Plus I talk to their parents a lot.
I am now just retired. I went to a state school (in what would now be called 'inner city') but like you I was taught to question everything and if it could not be proven empirically then to remain sceptical. In todays schools the children are not 'educated' but taught to pass tests, the curriculum is mandated by the government. You thus have a population that questions nothing and is not interested in politics. We are on the slippery path to a totalitarian state, 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear'
Governments need a good kicking if only to remind them that they are our servants not the other way round.
Jon
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