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    Eltern warnten, dass Kinder ohne Leseerfahrung als „Bürger zweiter Klasse“ in die Schule gehen


    Eltern warnten, dass Kinder ohne Leseerfahrung als „Bürger zweiter Klasse“ in die Schule gehen

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/children-reading-school-laureate-phillipson-b2938529.html

    Von insomnimax_99

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    1. Porthowl on

      The invention of smartphones and tablets has devastated early childhood development.

    2. bureaucrat_chaos on

      Economically deprived areas that don’t have access to good childcare and early years education has been an issue for years and isn’t really addressed. We’ve done well at expanding the access to free childcare, but when places run out and some existing places aren’t of good quality, it’s another crisis that needs solving.

    3. bahumat42 on

      Yeah you should all have experience of Englands largest town.

      It is foundational knowledge.

    4. NGeoTeacher on

      Children absorb knowledge at breakneck speed. If you go into a reception class at the beginning of the year compared to the end of it, the progress children have made is phenomenal.

      The issue then is that if you fall behind, it’s extremely hard to catch back up. New learning requires pre-requisite learning, so if a child hasn’t fully grasped those pre-requisites, they’re going to find it really hard to access the new learning. That compounds throughout life.

      Primary schools have more (but not unlimited) tools at their disposal to help children catch up, but if children haven’t reached a baseline level of knowledge and skills, they’re going to be lost in secondary where they’re required to be more independent. This is what lots of secondary schools are seeing – increased numbers of children arriving in year 7 without sufficient numeracy and English skills.

    5. condosovarios on

      As someone who has gone through fertility treatment for years this breaks my heart. I dream about being able to read to my children.

    7. BeardMonk1 on

      Smartphones and technology is partially to blame but we don’t talk enough about the fact that our society does everything possible to destroy and dismantle the family unit. Parents are not allowed to parent. Your forces back to work as soon a possible, young children put into pre-school nurseries and day care because their parents need to go back to work to pay the bills. We don’t seem to value the benefit a child gets in normal circumstances by being brought up by their parents.

      I also think that many of the issue we are seeing kids and young adults develop is because they didn’t experience that family unit growing up. Look at the set up in many of the Scandinavian countries with the levels of leave given to the father as well as the mother and that countries lower levels of mental illness in children and teenage in that country.

      Invest in families so families have the space and ability to carry out the essential task of raising their own children

    8. brigids_fire on

      Its insane that almost 50% of kids are starting school without being read to. We’ve been reading to our baby since he was born, and hes only 12 weeks. This past week he’s started really engaging with the books. He was already trying to hold them, but now hes started lifting the flaps on the flap books. Yesterday, he told his dad off for not turning the pages quickly enough. It makes me sad to think so many people are missing out on this.

      I know books can be expensive, but just go to local charity shops. Yesterday, we hit 5 in a row. One was doing a deal of 4 for 1 pound and the others had loads of childrens books for 1 quid. Almost all look brand new.

    9. LateFlorey on

      As a mum of two little ones, this breaks my heart as I absolutely love reading stories with them.

      My 3 year old was asked at preschool what is favourite thing about me to put in his Mother’s Day card, he said “I love my mummy reading me stories” and my 1 year old “reads” stories by mimicking the rhythm of Tabby Mctat.

      I know there’s probably a lot of social economics that will play a part of this but libraries are free and often have things on for children and should be encouraged more. Children should have access to books and parents should be reading to them from early on.

      It’s a hard cycle to break though as these children won’t enjoy reading themselves, so won’t pass that onto their children when they are older.

    10. terrorsquid on

      Sorry, but there’s no excuse for this! We’ve read to our three year old daughter every night before bed. This is just shitty parenting!

    11. RoyalJacko on

      Some children are not even toilet trained and are on tablets 24/7 on top of being behind peers; it comes to a point where the state can’t do everything and parents need to start looking at themselves.

    12. Walton_paul on

      It is a shame that many Parents and their offspring are losing out by the digital parenting.

    14. PhilosopherSea217 on

      How do you have a kid then not put the minimum effort in like reading to them? Why bother having a kid?

    15. SoggyWotsits on

      Frustratingly, deprivation is often blamed for things like this, but books cost next to nothing, and are free from libraries. We probably all know someone whose children have iPads, but very few books.

      Being read to before bed was a highlight for me. As was going to the library to get some new books. There seems to have been a massive shift in what parents think is their job, and the state’s job though. That includes things like learning to eat with cutlery, and toilet training.

    16. TribalTommy on

      I was worried for a second. I thought it meant them reading to themselves for a minute.

      We read a dozen books a day to them.. They ask constantly. Can’t imagine them not being read to.

    17. BuckfastAndHairballs on

      How many parents actually read books themselves though? If that’s not a part of their life then they probably won’t think it’s a necessity to read with their child

    18. readbooksmore on

      My Goddaughters are definitely iPad kids and it drives me mental. I buy them books and playsets and colouring books for every birthday and Christmas and their tablets are not allowed when they come to visit my house. The eldest is seven and by the time I was her age, I’d already read all of Roald Dahl’s books and was making my way through Jacqueline Wilson, Cathy Cassidy and the Chronicle’s of Narnia. I would imagine they couldn’t tell me a favourite book if I asked them.

    19. setokaiba22 on

      It’s 2026 there’s no way anyone in this country should be going to school unable to read

    20. tb5841 on

      Obviously. If you start school not knowing any letters and others start school able to read, that gap is never going to close.

    21. rolls-roycerolex on

      It’s okay my kids won’t be attending school to be indoctrinated. Pretty sure I can teach them to read and that’s all you need .

    23. plawwell on

      Most parents are pretty terrible parents who don’t do right by their children. A parent who lets a typical kid start school without being able to read is not parenting.

    25. FunkyYoghurt on

      Smart phones and tablets aren’t the problem. Lazy and piss-poor parenting is the problem. Smart phones and tablets absolutely have a place in childhood development. If your 7 year old is lying upside down on a sofa seat with ~4 second long brain-rot videos with never-ending swiping in a pub or restaurant: you’re a shit parent.

    26. Pixelnaut on

      Are children not held back a year any more? I don’t mean in a punitive way but if they can’t keep up/catch up and aren’t ready for the next year can they not be kept back?

    27. TheL0wKing on

      I always have mixed feelings about these kinds of articles because they tend to blend several different statistics and problems into one, despite the fact they have different causes.

      So firstly you have the statistic quoted in the article that 1 in 4 teachers report children trying to swipe physical books. That sounds bad but actually has nothing to do with literacy; you can read on a kindle, tablet or phone these days, often more conveniently than physical books. Its a raises a potental issue in the rise of technology but doesn’t say anything about reading experience.

      Secondly you have the statistic about 50% of children not having been read to. Again, this sounds scary, but that isnt a new problem and it often is tied to poverty and the literacy of parents than anything else. Parents who don’t read much, whether due to interest, time or ability, are unlikely to read much to their children. It is entirely possible that those parents are doing other things with their children instead and has no direct link to technology, a family that plays board games every evening would also fall into this catagory.

      Thirdly, you have that only 1 in 3 young people read in their spare time regularly. This is the biggest decrease of all the statistics, and the most related to technology. However, this is not inherently a bad thing, the modern world simply has more things to do, so of course if you pick one activity less people are going to be doing that one thing. That doesn’t mean they CAN’T read, just that they don’t do it regularly for fun. Plenty of things other than reading can be intellectually stimulating, I doubt we would criticise someone for doing Sudoku in their spare time rather than reading.

      Finally you have the statistic that isnt quoted in the article, which is overall literacy. The reason this isnt often used is that the UK literacy rate is one of the best in the world (and west), with a minor decrease amoung adults but generally improving. It is definitely something we can develop and improve further but it is most definitely not a crisis. It really highlights that articles like these are not about literacy, they are about „traditional reading“ and more general issues with the impact of technology on society.

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