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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Children with loving families have an unfair advantage!
Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says

Could snuggling up in bed and reading a bedtime story to your children ever be a bad thing?

An ABC Radio National program about whether “Having a loving family is an unfair advantage” has questioned whether bedtime reading is causing an uneven playing field for more unfortunate children.

British academic Adam Swift told ABC presenter Joe Gelonesi the benefits of the time-honoured custom were greater than a private school education.

“Evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don’t — the difference in their life chances — is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don’t,” Mr Swift said.

According to Mr Swift, the “devilish twist” was whether bedtime stories should be restricted.

Ultimately the net good of bedtime reading in promoting strong family bonds outweighed any other downsides, Mr Swift said.

“You have to allow parents to engage in bedtime stories activities, in fact we encourage them because those are the kinds of interactions between parents and children that do indeed foster and produce these (desired) familial relationship goods.”

But parents should be mindful of the advantage provided by bedtime reading, he said.

“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.

Mr Swift told the Daily Telegraph the idea of evening the playing field by encouraging all parents to read to their kids was not discussed.

The bedtime stories idea had been suggested by the ABC “as a way of getting attention”, he said.

Professor Frank Oberklaid, from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, told the newspaper he was “bewildered” by the idea of bedtime reading disadvantaging others.

“It’s one of the more bizarre things I’ve heard,” he said. “We should be bringing all kids up to the next level.”

Sources: Radio National, Daily Telegraph



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According to Mr Swift, the “devilish twist” was whether bedtime stories should be restricted.

Ultimately the net good of bedtime reading in promoting strong family bonds outweighed any other downsides, Mr Swift said.

“You have to allow parents to engage in bedtime stories activities, in fact we encourage them because those are the kinds of interactions between parents and children that do indeed foster and produce these (desired) familial relationship goods.”

But parents should be mindful of the advantage provided by bedtime reading, he said.
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With this logic, pretty much anything good a parent does for his child can be seen as "disadvantaging" other children.

Need some help with math? No can't do, because there are some children out there whose parents won't bother helping them.

About to flunk class and need some private tutoring? Nope, some other kids can't afford that, you will have to repeat class.

Need braces? Better get used to crooked teeth.

Have weight problems? Can't help, other children can't afford gym membership or a nutritionist's advice.

Interested in reading books? Well, other kids can't afford books


Hell, those things don't even generate what the article describes as "family bonds" (except maybe the first one) so this guy would probably be fine with "restricting" them.
 
Andy27 said:





With this logic, pretty much anything good a parent does for his child can be seen as "disadvantaging" other children.

Need some help with math? No can't do, because there are some children out there whose parents won't bother helping them.

About to flunk class and need some private tutoring? Nope, some other kids can't afford that, you will have to repeat class.

Need braces? Better get used to crooked teeth.

Have weight problems? Can't help, other children can't afford gym membership or a nutritionist's advice.

Interested in reading books? Well, other kids can't afford books


Hell, those things don't even generate what the article describes as "family bonds" (except maybe the first one) so this guy would probably be fine with "restricting" them.
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Well that sets a disturbing fucking precedent....
"No no, officer, I beat little Timmy with a croquet mallet for equality!"
 
Furina said:
Someone should let them know that Hitler was a vegetarian and created a whole bunch of laws that made protected animals. Some people say he only did this so that Jewish butchering techniques would be outlawed and thus no meat would be kosher, but I think Hitler genuinely cared about animals. He certainly loved his dog and even died with her when he and Eva Braun killed themselves in that bunker.
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PurpleDude said:
Oh boohoo! It's so unfair.

Seriously, I would never treat any child of mine poorly just because it isn't "fair" to someone else and fuck anyone who suggests otherwise.
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I hate shit like this. They actually stopped letting me check out the books I wanted in the library when I was in sixth grade because some students and their parents had complained that me reading "big books" was making other kids feel bad.
 
Picklechu said:
I hate shit like this. They actually stopped letting me check out the books I wanted in the library when I was in sixth grade because some students and their parents had complained that me reading "big books" was making other kids feel bad.
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Well shit, and here I thought being bullied for that sucked. At least my teachers didn't take my Tom Clancy books.

Seriously though, what sort of fevered mind even considers intentionally interfering with a child's development, much less actually gets a job working with kids with such a demented ideology? I've always considered evil to just be a matter of opinion, but stopping another's pursuit of knowledge has always been my exception to that.

I suppose in a twisted way it makes sense; the SJWs just want the rest of us to be mindless, shit-flinging apes like them.
 
Picklechu said:
I hate shit like this. They actually stopped letting me check out the books I wanted in the library when I was in sixth grade because some students and their parents had complained that me reading "big books" was making other kids feel bad.
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Who in their right minds would let that happen?
that's some Harrison Bergeron shit right there
 
lolwut said:
Well shit, and here I thought being bullied for that sucked. At least my teachers didn't take my Tom Clancy books.

Seriously though, what sort of fevered mind even considers intentionally interfering with a child's development, much less actually gets a job working with kids with such a demented ideology? I've always considered evil to just be a matter of opinion, but stopping another's pursuit of knowledge has always been my exception to that.

I suppose in a twisted way it makes sense; the SJWs just want the rest of us to be mindless, shit-flinging apes like them.
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This was back in 2002, so it was before a lot of the SJW garbage, but certainly after the unwarranted self esteem stuff. I think it was probably September of that year. I had just finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and returned it to the library so I could get another book. I picked another one of the books (I can't even remember which one it was at this point, although I think that it was me checking out and finishing the library's copy of War and Peace before this that triggered the complaints) that was labeled at the highest difficulty level, like the one I had just turned in, and tried to check it out. However, the librarian told me that I couldn't. I went to complain to my teacher, and she told me that some kids and their parents had complained because my "reading big books was making other kids, who couldn't read big books like [ I ] [did], feel bad about themselves."
 
lolwut said:
Well shit, and here I thought being bullied for that sucked. At least my teachers didn't take my Tom Clancy books.

Seriously though, what sort of fevered mind even considers intentionally interfering with a child's development, much less actually gets a job working with kids with such a demented ideology? I've always considered evil to just be a matter of opinion, but stopping another's pursuit of knowledge has always been my exception to that.

I suppose in a twisted way it makes sense; the SJWs just want the rest of us to be mindless, shit-flinging apes like them.
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and then they complain that american kids don't strive for excellence anymore, nor care about their education
 
Picklechu said:
This was back in 2002, so it was before a lot of the SJW garbage, but certainly after the unwarranted self esteem stuff. I think it was probably September of that year. I had just finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and returned it to the library so I could get another book. I picked another one of the books (I can't even remember which one it was at this point, although I think that it was me checking out and finishing the library's copy of War and Peace before this that triggered the complaints) that was labeled at the highest difficulty level, like the one I had just turned in, and tried to check it out. However, the librarian told me that I couldn't. I went to complain to my teacher, and she told me that some kids and their parents had complained because my "reading big books was making other kids, who couldn't read big books like [ I ] [did], feel bad about themselves."
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The whole reading levels in schools is BS. There was pleanty of books I wanted to read but wasn't allowed purely because I wasn't considered on a high enough level. The school used some stupid colour system. But at age eleven in high school (UK) I could check out and read whatever I wanted. I say if that child wants to read then let them read!
 
ChuckSlaughter said:
I've always found this to be a highly suspect claim. I'm sure there are a range of motives. Do you think someone is going to fingerbang someone who is passed out so they can feel powerful?
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I agree. That isn't to say that power and dominance isn't ever a factor in rape, but to simplify it to the point of "It's never about sex" reeks of tunnel-vision.

There are LOTS of rapes that are about sex. That doesn't make one type of rape less horrific than another, but it's not very useful (and rather dishonest) to try and change the motive.

Picklechu said:
I hate shit like this. They actually stopped letting me check out the books I wanted in the library when I was in sixth grade because some students and their parents had complained that me reading "big books" was making other kids feel bad.
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Touched a nerve there. Holding back smart kids for the benefit of the underachievers is something I've seen too often. If you're my kid and I hear this is what's happening, here's how it goes down. I tell your teacher three things:

  • You can explain to me why my kid isn't allowed to check out a book that my goddamn tax dollars paid for, in addition to your worthless salary
  • @Picklechu now has a blank check to buy any damn book he wants, to read at school, and will continue to until his library privileges have been restored. If the books don't return home with him at the end of the day, the cost of them will be added to the list of damages I'm claiming in the
  • Lawsuit I'll be filing against the school system. Basically, I have a problem with teachers going out of their way to prevent kids from learning. I'm funny like that.
I'm not a teacher, but I do have a kid, and I've spent the majority of my life in school of some variety. I do not buy the argument that education is a zero-sum game and that the only way to help students who are failing is to take resources away from the students who excel.

Sorry for the thread derailment, but this is one of those issues that takes me from zero to pissed in five seconds.
 
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As an academic underachiever of low intelligence who felt self-conscious, frustrated, and generally pretty shit about myself next to the students who seemed to effortlessly 'get' everything...

...I think it's appalling that schools would ever try and bandage MY issues by taking education opportunities from other students. There are lots of things kids like me need in school, but less intelligent classmates isn't one of them. I'd be bashing at the library door with a chair going, 'GEEZIS CHRIST, STOP THIS SHIT, BEING STUPID SUCKS!!!'
 
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