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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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To: ilovesarah2012

Need to attack the root cause - defund colleges.


41 posted on 05/06/2015 7:57:12 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: fhayek

I’m going to(at least)double our family’s read-aloud time. At least!!!!!


42 posted on 05/06/2015 8:05:51 PM PDT by rejoicing
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To: ilovesarah2012

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”....


43 posted on 05/07/2015 3:35:50 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BuffaloJack

I am expecting a granddaughter in about three weeks. I already have her bookcase stocked.


44 posted on 05/07/2015 4:15:53 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Pining_4_TX

Unbelievable. No wonder so many parents have decided to home-school.


45 posted on 05/07/2015 6:01:59 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Is this a joke? Has to be a joke. No one is this stupid and evil.


46 posted on 05/07/2015 10:19:07 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: fhayek

On second thought, maybe this will make liberals stop reading to their kids while normal kids with thrive.


47 posted on 05/07/2015 10:20:26 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

Never underestimate a liberal.


48 posted on 05/07/2015 2:38:52 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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