Posted on 05/05/2015 1:29:27 PM PDT by blueyon
Does reading to your children somehow give them an unfair advantage over less fortunate children?
A British philosopher is making that claim, and it’s causing ripple waves across the globe.
A story on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s website asks: “Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?”
It raises the question: “Should parents snuggling up for one last story before lights out be even a little concerned about the advantage they might be conferring?”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Leftists aren’t sane. NOBODY should listen to them. Goes to show that much of the public ain’t sane either, for listening to them.
My kids went to one of the poorest schools in Georgia. You know what? One has a masters in her field and the other is rapidly climbing the finance ladder. My wife read fastidiously to both of them. The kids that weren’t read to are probably selling meth or posing for Busted magazine!
The Khmere Rouge killed parents who could read.
No. Now shut up, Swift, you're an idiot.
This devilish twist of evidence surely leads to a further conclusion that perhaps – in the interests of leveling the playing field – bedtime stories should also be restricted.
Be restricted, by whom? The entire argument that "leveling the playing field" is more important than parents nurturing their children is stupid, wrong, and evil, and it will be treated with the disgust and derision it deserves.
Normal human social achievement has always been a multi-generational project. That is the way people progress. The war on reality, for that is what Egalitarianism is, is the greatest impediment, not only for social progress among the most productive; but perhaps an even greater impediment to those to whom life is a greater struggle. Nothing is more stultifying than abandoning the struggle for a sense of entitlement—for a sense that the world owes one a living.
Those liberal idiot bastards will never stop until this whole world stops revolving which, if things continue the course we are all on, will end sooner than expected. I have no doubt God is Angry with this world of today.
WHat???
My mom belong reading Children weekly reader club
I still cant believe still around
I think my mom still have my childhood books somewhere around the house LOL!
I see, only the state can raise kids, and all must be equal in their misery. Then blame “enemies of the state” who must have created the misery, and fight and kill everyone who opposes you.
Got it!
No, all parents should be unmarried teens slapping the crap out of their illegitimate toddlers as they reach up to be picked up. That’s what I see on buses and subways, in stores, etc. every day. The babies are ignored while teen mom chats on her cell phone, or plunked down in front of a TV as a babysitter. Listening to violence, sex, and other assorted stuff inappropriate for a little child and contributing NOTHING to their intellectual capacity. Stuffed full of junk food and fast food. Yeah, that’s much better.
“Notice their idea that the government should be used to prevent reading to children.”
Actually, he says that we shouldn’t take away reading to children by parents.
‘We could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to healthy family relationships, whereas if we say that you can’t read bedtime stories to your kids because it’s not fair that some kids get them and others don’t, then that would be too big a hit at the core of family life.’
People who work for a living recognize the value of education and learning. Either they're glad they had one, or they're sorry they didn't. Either way, they want their kids to be educated. They know the world is not an "everybody's a winner!" place, and they want their children prepared to compete.
People who don't work and live on the dole don't see the value. They're getting their check same as everybody else on the block. That may be OK, but it is By God unfair for anybody else to have anything more than what they've got.
Race hasn't entered this conversation, but I'm dragging it up. Black students in the 30's/40's were much better educated than today, even if they were educated in dismal segregated schools. Their wasn't a social safety net, and their parents knew that school was their chance at any sort of decent life at all. Teachers in black school were absolutely revered in their communities.
Now, rather than an upbringing that inspires hope and striving for prosperity, we have generations who are raised to be envious and resentful of what others have earned.
It's not fair until everybody's life sucks.
Democrats, Socialists and Communists are ruled by a mindset that says, “if I can’t have thus and such, then *they* can’t either”. Let’s see where this thinking leads:
If we don’t have money, then whites can’t have it either.
If our kids don’t have bedtime stories, then white kids can’t have them either.
If our kids don’t have fathers, then white kids can’t have them either.
Ridiculous? I think not! If not this week, then the next.
This is just pathetic.
Instead of complaining that parents read to their kids, you should go after the ones who don’t
There, their, they're.
My kingdom for an edit function.
White privilege
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