Off Topic Social Media and the death of Twitter

To who?

 

Syd doesnt know how broken the uk is
And how all sorts of social services are cut to the bone

 

It’s not so much that. I genuinely want to know who he thinks school staff should report kids bragging about their parents buying vapes for them to? Social services, the police, Prevent, the local MP? It doesn’t meet the threshold for any of them to get involved.

 

Imagine Tim Walter's football, with the Allam's investment and Dowie as first team coach.....that's how ****ed they are!

 

You just detailed who. That's all you can do. As you say, parents will get around it any which way which is sad. The good thing with social media though is if the ban is done correctly, unless parents are letting kids walk around with the parents' phones during the day, there will be some limit on accessibility.

 

I actually think Boomers on average are more computer-literate than the current generation of teenagers.

Castro/Cityzen could tell people on here what the best VPN to use is. Most of the students/teenagers I know don’t even know what a VPN is. They’re the tablet generation/iPad kids.

 

Ive read that pyshical keyboard skills are massively lacking on youngsters

 

They are. Anything more complicated than a tablet or smartphone with a touchpad and they crumble. I made a comment recently about how some older teachers are crap at technology and can’t export a PDF. Neither can a lot of the kids.

Gove, in his infinite wisdom, scrapped compulsory IT skills as part of the national curriculum because he just assumed younger generations were already adept at using technology because they grew up with it.

 

A qwerty keyboard would be of benefit to you.


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Home economics should be one of the first subjects on the curucilum,more so nowadays than ever?

The amount of fresh food (meat and veg)you can buy for £15 to rattle up a Sunday dinner that would comfortably feed 5 people and yet cars are queuing out of Macdonalds drive thru, paying £40-£50 for junk food for 5...It boils my p!ss on a regular basis!!

 

She teaches a really good set of 'fakeaway' recipes, one in particular for oven baked chicken in bread crumbs and spices as a substitute for KFC is mega, as well as being cheaper and healthier, but if you've never been taught to cook it you'll never make it.

 

Far cheaper,I cooked us a chicken casserole this week. Seven chicken thighs, a bag of carrots, two onions, and a bag of baby potatoes, all from Aldi costing £5.01, along with a Colman's chicken casserole from Farm Foods which was 29p.


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The state should make it compulsory for all the U16 fat wheezy kids to attend boot camp for a few months. As they won’t be able to go on social media sites due to being banned they’ll have even more time to get into shape. A win win situation.

 

That's a terrible situation. Things have clearly got more difficult since I left the UK nearly 30 years ago. Hopefully it's a very small minority of parents behaving this way.

 

Anyone applying for a job to imprison an U16 in a boot camp for the 'crime' of being overweight should be on a register. The money wasted would be better spent on parent education.

 

No different to when I was younger.

 

What period in History are we looking at here Amin?

 

About 7 years ago.

 

My lad had a good mate through his school years,big Scott,he was a really good kid,bit wayward at times but nothing you couldn't control.His parents had split up and his mam brought him up,his father was a drunk,paraded around like a gangster...Pain in the arse if you met him in the pub,basically a lazy loser.

We used to take the lad on caravan holidays,he stayed with us quite a lot at weekends and if the two of them stepped out of line hanging around the streets they'd get a rollicking off me.If he stepped out of line in his own home,his Mother would 'reward' him with bottles of Buckfast wine,this is when he was 14!!

By the time he was 18, he was,to me anyway,an alcoholic and had started to dabble in hard drugs and crime.That led to periods of imprisonment,more hard drugs and longer sentences.My lad tried and tried with him but eventually he'd had enough and 'gave up' on him.

Last time I met the lad he was heading into the chemist for his methadone,unrecognizable to me as the kid who we'd spent a lot of time with in his youth and who was one of the best young footballers in the area.

Long winded I know(as is my trait) but I suppose the moral to the story is, giving your kids alcohol to make your problems go away can only end badly and any parent doing it should be dealt with by the Courts...It's morally criminal.

 

There were kids in my year at secondary school 10 years whose parents bought them cigs. The only thing that has changed is it’s now vapes instead of cigs.