Protecting children from things adult and improper. Where should the boundaries be?

[4channel]

Protecting children from things adult and improper. Where should the boundaries be?

Today children are exposed to things that 20 years ago were unheard of. As time creeps on we see more and more things that challenge belief. In film and on television, extremely violent imagery is such an accepted and major part of entertainment that some cannot enjoy a film or program unless it is violent.

In what passes for music, the lyrics are more explicit and sexually laden than they ever were. A great deal of the video clips that appear on television would be considered pornography once upon a time. Other forms of music such as some rap have lyrics about killing people, guns and putting down women in the worst possible way.

Something that would be laughed off as impossible years ago, children before they can even walk properly are now exposed to adult entertainers such as drag queens as part of some supposed education or enlightenment program. Some of these drag queens have names of male and female genitalia. Some have names that relate to sexual scents and arousal. Some even have gone as far as doing stripping routines, twerking, teaching twerking, and  other blatant sexually suggestive behaviour. They are even reading childrens stories that are an alternative to the male and female relationships or the birth genders..

Children are playing violent video games which are much more graphic and interactive than what they were in the past. Many are not interested in a video game unless it is violent. They can play for hours and hours on these games, either connected to their own source or a source that is online. Some of the games are so violent that some adults are sickened to the degree that they refuse to even talk about it. Others that do find it almost impossible to comprehend.

* Where should the boundaries be set or where should they have been set?

* What effect is this having on children today?

* How will things be in ten or twenty years time?

[countessalmirena]

[countessalmirena]

Oh, and I forgot this one:

[4channel]

For those who say that only the children that play these violent games, listen to violent music, are exposed to adult sexual content are affected have no idea about a flow on effect. Kids learn off of others and then there's the "peer thing" where others have to do and say things to fit in. I have to say that I have massive respect for parents that home school their kids.

[imastawka]

What rock are you hiding under?

In Victoria, nearly all kids were home schooled, for most of the past year, under lockdown.

Others who had no supervision at home were schooled, via computer, in their classroom at school.  No physical teachers.

At my grandson's high school those kids totalled 7 for the whole school.

[4channel]

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@imastawka wrote:

What rock are you hiding under?

In Victoria, nearly all kids were home schooled, for most of the past year, under lockdown.

Others who had no supervision at home were schooled, via computer, in their classroom at school.  No physical teachers.

At my grandson's high school those kids totalled 7 for the whole school.

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Kids are at school now. Pior to the corona thing kids were at school.

Why do you say siuch a thing iimastawka?

[nicnacs_4u]

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@imastawka wrote:

What rock are you hiding under?

In Victoria, nearly all kids were home schooled, for most of the past year, under lockdown.

Others who had no supervision at home were schooled, via computer, in their classroom at school.  No physical teachers.

At my grandson's high school those kids totalled 7 for the whole school.

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you certainly have a "way" with words!

[springyzone]

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@imastawka wrote:

In Victoria, nearly all kids were home schooled, for most of the past year, under lockdown.

Others who had no supervision at home were schooled, via computer, in their classroom at school.  No physical teachers.

At my grandson's high school those kids totalled 7 for the whole school.

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There's a big elephant in the room when we talk of home schooling.

In a lot of cases, it was fairly useless.

I'm not saying all, but in quite a few cases.

For starters, parents who worked from home were still expected to do home schooling. Now, if you're being paid a wage to work from home, you need to work, you can't be spending the time working plus supervising so the result was a lot of children were left pretty much to themselves or with quick moments of help. Or else had to do the tasks at odd times later in the day. Older children were probably more independent but younger kids need a a lot of direction and supervision.

Then we have the parents with very little English.

Or the ones who didn't have a lot of patience.

And the mothers with babies and toddlers to look after as well and meals to cook, housework to be done.

And the kids who were distracted by everything going on around them.

And dare I say it, the lessons that were sent out to students were not necessarily what they would have been doing in class.

Some schools did it well, some not so well.

In short, a lot of children out there are months behind.

[katistrophik]

Very true, a friend of mine is a single mum, works part time, has 4 children and is studying to further her qualifications in nursing. Home schooling for her was a nightmare poor thing, as she was also an essential worker and not displaced during the lockdown.

I think most parents would have tried the best they could, but they are not teachers. I don't think the entire home schooling thing was done so much for the 'education' side as for the purpose of trying to keep the kids involved, and not treating it all as a holiday.

Any left behind, I hope, will be easily caught up now back in the classroom, it was certainly an unprecented thing to happen for most

[katistrophik]

Sorry to bang on, but I just remembered something.......

Back in the day [waaay back] when I was in high school, a required book to read was Lord of the Flies.

Any one read that ? IMO a horror story in it's own right.

Spoiler

Yes I am ducking my, head waiting........

[ambercat16]

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@katistrophik wrote:

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I hope, will be easily caught up now back in the classroom, it was certainly an unprecented thing to happen for most

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Unprecedented for us maybe but I can't help thinking about those who were school age children in the UK, Europe and large parts of Asia in the first half of the 1940s.  Their schooling was seriously disrupted and not just for months, but in many cases for several years.  

I wonder if anyone in the education system has ever analysed how the disruption to those children's education affected their futures? Of course there would be many other factors to take into account but it is an interesting thought.