Are our children globally illiterate?
The more important question is why indiginous children know so much more about foreign cultures than they do about ther own. There is already too much diversity and muticultural brainwashing, it’s destroyed real education.
New government please !
Matt Munro, Bristol, Uk
You know, just the other day I was having a most enlightening conversation with a White, Indigenous, BRITISH child about the prosody of Goethe and Baudelaire, when I happened to mention Shakespeare. “Shake-speer? Who’s that squire?” came the reply. Astonishing.
An education charity claims children aren’t getting enough of something? Wow! Actually that’s what charities do: identify a lack.
Stage 2 is to ask for more of whatever it is.
Stage 3 is to demand extra funding.
Excuse me but how much does education in this country cost the taxpayer? And why, when I visit the library, is it empty? And isn’t broadband cheap enough now for everyone to have it at home? Stop pretending kids are lacking anything that common sense alone can’t sort out.
Colin, London
Mum says not to go to the library where the strange man is.
Matt Munro, hmmm I used to like you when you sung the theme tune to the italian job, but now you are just a daily mail reading cunt.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love this guy. Especially his distraught-sounding ‘Aaarrgghh !!!’ And his amazing choice of words to list to describe ‘global issues’, including ‘Obama’ and ‘Laplands’.
My favourite implication is that children can ony be taught about one thing at any one time. Their brains are TINY SMALL and can’t fit all this information in. If we’re not careful, and we teach them something about the EU, they’ll lose the ability to tie their shoelaces. It’ll pop right out of their head.
Also, I agree that children need to learn the ability to learn. Definitely.
NB Continuously meddling with education is wrong and should be stopped. I can’t believe they stopped teaching kids the world was flat and whipping them with sticks.
LOL at the idea that diversity is destroying education. Kids these days can’t divide by seven- but they do know Sharia law inside out.
Fact.
Yes, why don’t these damn poor people spend their benefits of computers and broadband, instead of frivilous expenditures like clothes and food.
Less fish fingers, more Wikipedia I say!
Lapland”s”?
How many are there? Do they each have a Santa Clause?
‘Argh!’ is the word.
The worst thing about reading these posts is I end up wondering if they aren’t a bit right [bear with me] because if any of these endlessly-brain-dead twats had had a thorough grounding in British history, they’d realise there’s no such thing as an ‘indigenous Brit’ and [ok, maybe too much to hope] be a little more interested in where their ancestors and culture actually came from.
I hope these bold tags work, because I’ll be relegated to posting on HYS myself if I have to use CAPS for emphasis.
Cross, of London
Em, the problem is that British culture came into being fully formed in 1954 (except for the excellent bits like Agincourt and the Blitz) and immediately went downhill from there.
Incidentally my parents are always banging on about how these economic migrants are ruining everything. They’re both from Dublin. They don’t see the irony.
How dare they make our kids learn about foreign stuff. Shocking. It’s enough to make you throw the internets in a skip.
I’m off for a nice indigenous kebab for lunch.
why is it that kids these days always have more sex and better skunk than me??
Because they’re being taught about the Kama Sutra from the age of 4. Apparently.
Honestly, some of these comments are comedy gold. . .
Yes, more fart jokes in the classroom please!
alex, i don’t know how you manage to trawl through this daily torrent of fuckwittery without gouging your own eyes out in a fit of rage and despair. to me, you’re sort of like those unfortunate coppers who have to sift through kiddie porn. i salute you.
Fully-fledged foreign people who were actually born in other countries tend to give me funny looks when I say I’m ‘not-English’, but I refuse to be forcibly associated with these idiots just because I was born here, damnit!
As for those of you who are, you have my sympathies. And James’, I presume?
Anyone else think he sounds a tad to keen to introduce young innocents to his horrible reality…?
How can our children possibly not know about their own culture? If they don’t know about it, then it’s hardly their culture is it? We don’t all share the same “culture” as a bunch of dim-witted little-Englanders like Matt.
What the kids need is a crash course in xenophobia, reactionism and snobbery. That’ll teach them what it truly means to be British. Then and ONLY then should they be taught about horrible smelly foreign people and their funny food.
I love this notion, which seems to be all-pervading, that kids’ innocence to any and all bad things must be preserved at any cost. I get the wonderful image of kids raised in this way stepping out into the wonderful wide world at the age of 16 and promptly turning a sharp left down a dark alley and asking that nice chap why he has that syringe in his arm, and doesn’t it hurt?
I also wonder if these parents of wide-eyed innocents believe they’re just one more administrative payment away from getting that European Lottery jackpot they’ve won…
But Rich, I can’t devide by 7 and am doing OK. Why should kiddies need to know it.
IF you have to divide a task up over a week - take sunday off.
IF you have 7 friends to divide stuff between then you can always kill one of them.
Dividing by 7 is pointless and can be avoided.
Dividing anything by any number is pointless. All children should be taught that anything that comes their way is theirs to enjoy selfishly and does not need dividing between any friends.
If their mates didn’t get any of what ever it was in the first place it’s their own look out.
Division? Fuck off, its mine. Go get your own, you scrounging twat.
Now that’s maths you can respect!
My god, I see it now. Division is just more communist propaganda, spread by the EU no doubt.
Teaching children about different cultures is dangerous. They might end up tolerating different cultures, and then who will post on HYS????!?!?!?!?one
poor colin… not even the relatively sane are safe in these threads… poor colin…
It was definitely these libby lefty loonies who brought in division.
That’s why they call it “division of labour”.
Is Sinophobia fear of:
a) nasal cavities?
b) breaking God’s law?
c) trigonometry?
d) that nice Chinese state?
Dunno, but ‘Sinho-phobia’ is fear of Pokemon battles.
Sorry everyone…
::crawls under rock::
I heard that Colin from London is just like Marie-Antoinette except with, like, prettier dresses and stuff.
Em, you damn well better be, i don’t come on the intanets (an english invention) to hear about that jap nonsense.
7drew, if you have 7 friends and you kill one, you won’t have enough for 2 games of bridge
From the original HYS article:
Are you a lazy parent? Can’t be arsed to talk to your kids? Prefer TV dinners to family meals? Think education begins and ends at the school gate?
Tell us how the schools should bring up your kids because you can’t be fucked to do it yourself.
Simon, I was including myself amongst the 7, so I wouldn’t have enough for 2 games of bridge anyway.
See my plan is flawless, hahahahaha
I apologise in advance.
Is Cosinophobia a fear of:
a) Mozart operas?
b) 17th century english scholars?
c) further trigonometry?
d) cooperating with that nice Chinese state?
*gets coat and leaves*
Casinophobia?
I’m scared of casinos because I always end up losing all the money I would normally spend on crack, pre-teen hookers and a donation to Amnesty International there.
Casiophobia? I’m scared of cheap electronic tat because I was once raped by a man with a bontempi organ. Fnarr fnarr.
I had a bontempi organ once. Got some cream from the doctor and it cleared up a treat.