In this blog
post, I decided to take on a perspective other than my own. I thought that the
mum of a student would be an interesting perspective opposing (in some cases)
my opinion. Hope you enjoy!
Text speak
destroying our kids’ reputations? You’re absolutely right! I don’t have to be
some language professor who wasted her years away studying the evolution of the
English language to know that technology and mobile phones are deteriorating
everything that we were taught as kids and what I want my son to be taught!
Instead, his
school has ME spending $800 on a screen and some wires which pretends to tell
him what the school won’t teach him. I don’t know about everyone else, but if I
was their kids’ parent, I would sure as heck want a proper education like we
got when we were kids, where teachers teach us to spell rather than have us
type on a screen which automatically corrects us beyond our care.
Our school
system needs changes, I can tell you that much. In my time, we were sent home
with a 3 page written essay and math worksheets due the next day. Now they are
told to go home and play some stupid game and make a ‘Mine Art’ or whatever
they call it. You know what my son said to me the other day? He said “WTF”.
WTF?! Teachers can’t even control what our kids do on these little devices that
they’re letting them use willy-nilly. The internet is a big world, and I’m not
ready for my child to be exposed to the expanses of it.
We need more
people like you, Ms Clark, to stand up for our children’s education before we
are left with illiterates running our beautiful country and our world. Earth is
going to go into a huge downhill spiral of deterioration if we don’t act now
about our kids’ learning. I, like many other loving mothers, rely on my son’s school
to provide the learning he needs to succeed on this harsh planet. Please
continue with your enlightening articles on such an important topic.
Thanx,
Linda
McNiven.
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