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Professor: If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others
nationalreview.com ^ | May 6, 2015 | KATHERINE TIMPF

Posted on 05/06/2015 4:21:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012

According to a professor at the University of Warwick in England, parents who read to their kids should be thinking about how they’re “unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children” by doing so. In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who “engage in bedtime-stories activities” should definitely at least feel kinda bad about it sometimes: “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. But Swift also added that some other things parents do to give their kids the best education possible — like sending them to “an elite private school” — “cannot be justified” in this way. “Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,” he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; parenting
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1 posted on 05/06/2015 4:21:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Oh...Come...on...!


2 posted on 05/06/2015 4:23:35 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: ilovesarah2012

That’s why I do it. I want my kids to be the benevolent dictators of the Idiocracy they’ll inherit.


3 posted on 05/06/2015 4:24:16 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Good parenting unfair to children with bad parents? Solution? Pick the WORST family possible and forcibly impose their behaviors on the rest.

When I read Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s “Harrison Bergeron” as a young teen, it was the most thought-provoking thing I had ever read. Little did I know at the time it was actually a prediction of the future, not just a strange little short story.

Leftists leveling the playing field one family at a time: downward; the only direction collectivist can achieve.


4 posted on 05/06/2015 4:26:22 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Just go blow it out your a$$, I do not have any other words other than that.


5 posted on 05/06/2015 4:26:44 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: ilovesarah2012

This has got to be the biggest bunch of boozwha that’s come out of England sincer Piers Morgan.


6 posted on 05/06/2015 4:27:06 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Good.


7 posted on 05/06/2015 4:27:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: ilovesarah2012

Same if you feed and clothe your kids properly. /s


8 posted on 05/06/2015 4:29:43 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Great satire! /s


9 posted on 05/06/2015 4:29:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Message Professor - DROP DEAD!


10 posted on 05/06/2015 4:31:06 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

So, parenting does matter. Apparently, an admission that the government can’t raise kids better than parents do.


11 posted on 05/06/2015 4:31:45 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
"There are some ideas so absurd, only an intellectual would believe them."

-- George Orwell

12 posted on 05/06/2015 4:31:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: catnipman

I just happen to have the 1995 version of the film. I couldn’t help but think of common core watching the classroom scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcpuBRUdNs

The short version named “2081” is also good.


13 posted on 05/06/2015 4:32:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: ilovesarah2012

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This is the very essence of the obama era.
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14 posted on 05/06/2015 4:32:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Dammm right.

Yes, I am making sure my kids leave the other kids in the dust.

And I’m having fun doing it.


15 posted on 05/06/2015 4:35:47 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I wonder if this guy still lives in his parents’ basement?
If so, to paraphrase the immortal William Shatner, he should get out of there and get a life.


16 posted on 05/06/2015 4:36:05 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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I taught both of my boys learn to read by age 4. I am so glad they will be disadvantaging the children of liberals.


17 posted on 05/06/2015 4:41:16 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Pam Gellar draws pictures, muslims murder people-- liberals and cowards speak out against the first)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Nothing in life is fair. Someone always has more, and someone always has less, and people have different things. Some people are smarter than others. Some people are better looking than others. Some have natural gifts, and some don’t. This is why Socialism ultimately doesn’t work, why totalitarian systems always end up with serfs and overlords. Parents should try to give their kids every advantage they can, and let the miserable left have the guilt.


18 posted on 05/06/2015 4:43:28 PM PDT by pallis
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19 posted on 05/06/2015 4:52:47 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ilovesarah2012

So?


20 posted on 05/06/2015 4:55:21 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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