Topic: Growing number of children 'don't know their own name' when starting school.
Triptych !LightPenis started this discussion 15 years ago#12,801
Parents are failing to teach their children how to speak because they spend too much time on the internet and watching television, experts claim.
The problem is most acute in deprived areas, where researchers found half of youngsters have communication difficulties when starting school.
In the worst cases, many children are unaware they even have a name at the age of four. Toddlers should be familiar with their own name by the age of two, teachers say.
Jean Gross, the government's communication champion for children, said she discovered the problem while speaking to head teachers in Hull and London.
“They told me that they had seen a number of cases of children arriving for their first day at school who did not know their name or that they even had a name.
“It was very upsetting to realise that children had reached the age of four without that difficulty being picked up.
“We do have a problem. Anecdotally, it’s getting worse from what head teachers say.â€
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More than a million British youngsters – around two to three in each classroom across the country – suffer from speech, language and communication difficulties, according to the charity The Communication Trust.
The past five years have seen a 58 per cent rise in the number of young children in school identified with the problem
but on the other hand, these children are successfully attaching to televisions and computers, thus making their irresponsible parents obsolete once the bugs (like learning your name) are worked out.
Triptych !LightPenis (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 10 minutes after the original post[^][v]#230,416
!VoCaLoNunI joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#230,419
@230,415 (!hEyBrieeXM)
Eventually their hands will merge with the keyboards and mouses. (Grammar is correct, it's only mice if it's an animal.) Then the cyborg generation will begin.
Leo Vegas !gNoGoD5HzQ joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#230,453
The machines are turning them into nameless drones who do what they are told. Not much different than what real people did with kids before the machines. The only difference was that they knew their names then.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#230,536
> according to one head teacher
Is he talking specifically about his school?
green joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#230,540
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#230,541
Britain: Learning the alfabet from Ej to Zed!
DXMeowth !RKehomzmKo joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 45 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#230,585