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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Need to attack the root cause - defund colleges.
I’m going to(at least)double our family’s read-aloud time. At least!!!!!
Typical “liberal intellectual-think” The person who should feel bad is the one who takes time and effort to help their kids be successful vs. the one who does nothing to help their kids with anything except the development of street “smarts”....
I am expecting a granddaughter in about three weeks. I already have her bookcase stocked.
Unbelievable. No wonder so many parents have decided to home-school.
Is this a joke? Has to be a joke. No one is this stupid and evil.
On second thought, maybe this will make liberals stop reading to their kids while normal kids with thrive.
Never underestimate a liberal.
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