I was at Mass yesterday and they had a couple of young people reading who took forever to finish two short readings. Do they not teach reading in school anymore? When I was at school we had to take a book home every weekend, read it and report back on Monday morning to tell the class what it was about. If schools can't get the basics of reading and writing right what hope do we have that they can get anything else right. Or am I just getting old?
Maybe the young people were nervous hence the length of time it took them to read. Or perhaps English was not their mother tongue. I had to read bidding prayers at a funeral the other week and was absolutely bricking it.
Well we also got plenty of practice reading in public when I was a lad through reading at children's Masses and at an annual Feis.
Ok let's get back on topic. What do you all think should be taught in school that you were taught? I think basic computer programming skills should be taught as well as better emphasis on reading. Today IT classes are all about MS Office with more technical skills being ignored.
I think that kids should be taught critical thinking so that they don't believe in 2,000 year old Middle-Eastern zombie cults.
I could read a Mr Men and Spot goes to the Shops in about 10 minutes when I was wee. What kind of dumbfuck took the whole weekend?
Oh look there's EDGE and his mate getting their jollys boring people with priest jokes. They never get old eh?
