Tag: boys and reading
The state of reading – J’Accuse!
It is time to put an end to the nonsense of Literacy. Why? Because it has not worked and our nation’s children are suffering from it’s imposition by swivel-eyed fanatics at the end of the last century. What happened? In the late 1970s and early 1980s university english departments were taken over by Deconstructionism. What…
The problem with boys
Boys start school far too young Boys are made to sit still and do boring stuff when they’d much rather be running around. Boys are shown a bit of the story and told to analyse it. They never get told the whole story. Stories are the one thing boys will settle down and listen to.…
Want to improve writing standards? Let them read books!
You wouldn’t expect a child to make a movie if they had never watched TV or visited the cinema. You’d never expect a child to make something if they’d never seen the tools being used or had never encountered the raw materials before, so why, oh why do we expect children to be able to…