Yup don't think the special needs kids deserve to learn too? Why should they get lesser opportunities than other kids? I'm kidding of course, the whole inclusion thing is something that many teachers deal with. Mainly because they are forcing it without a plan or the supports in place to actually make it successful. I remember when I was in school you rarely ever saw the special ed kids.

Gadgets are easy way out, and giving a space to stay entertained, but at the end of the day when reality hits hard, answers becomes complicated because we chose a lifestyle which cutoff us from the intuitively natural life.

It’s horrible but people are in for a fucking RUDE awakening in about 15 years when this generation right now is completely inept and incapable of many things basic humans can do. It’s going to be very difficult and at the same time it’s also going to be a great opportunity for those that are competent and capable of doing what we right now consider basic shit. 

I’m more pleased that we took away the iPad from our son than ever. His mood has improved, attention, play and all that. He’s thankfully not been a little zombie like many other kids but we saw negative changes in him and took a bit of doing but we got him away from that damn thing. Now he’s far better at occupying himself when need be with Lego, digging in a container of dirt and stuff. Normal boy things. A sigh of relief for sure lol. 

I’m glad that your daughter is one of the competent ones! Oi vey

> Do you think those living in poverty feel free?

This is one of the reasons whenever I meet socialist, communist,  I laugh it on the utopia of theirs they survive on capitalism but want the freedom. I find kill the govt kill the banks narrative flawed too. Who is going to clean the road if the local level govt is killed too. Killing democracy leads to tyrany. And we have examples around the world.

As an uncle, I'm staying out of it! What I can tell you from the classroom with my first-hand experience is that students are seemingly less curious and more apprehensive to ask questions. It is a sad state of affairs, because as you rightly said, too many students are being included to the detriment of the most invested and caring students. All in the name of equality I guess. But we are lacking equity, not equality, and equality does not look the same for students of varied needs.

I noticed this looking at my brother's kids and my cousin's girls. My nephews are stuck to the screen, which ended up with them learning more and quite intelligent, but my cousin has a no screen policy for the first years of life, and his girls are emotionally intelligent and quite mature for their age. So, in the short version, screen = more learning and intellectual intelligence - IQ, no screen = more EQ. Later in life, it is the EQ that matters, to achieve a happy, fulfilled life. But IQ means more money long term. Where do you draw the line?

I noticed this looking at my brother's kids and my cousin's girls. My nephews are stuck to the screen, which ended up with them learning more and quite intelligent, but my cousin has a no screen policy for the first years of life, and his girls are emotionally intelligent and quite mature for their age. So, in the short version, screen = more learning and intellectual intelligence - IQ, no screen = more EQ. Later in life, it is the EQ that matters, to achieve a happy, fulfilled life. But IQ means more money long term. Where do you draw the line?

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Excellent reflection! I read this educational reality and it is very similar to ours in Cuba. There is a tendency to excessive use of cell phones in children of different ages, something that is often uncontrolled. 
Developing the educational process at school, where the interaction with new technologies is taken into account, is a complex issue and teachers in many cases do not know how to deal with it. 
On the other hand, many families are more concerned with entertaining their children than developing actions to educate them. 
Thank you for sharing. Regards 

Please go ahead and tell them!!!

It makes sad reading. Knowing the truth in it and that a lot of parents have adopted these passive methods of raising children with technology and call it being modern. My fear is how worse, it will become when home aid tools curried out by A.I are finally rolled out for home use.

It is very curious why special needs children are mixed in to regular classes. It isn't about inclusion, it is what's best for all. The current system is already bad since all kids have different learning speed and the teacher needs to adjust. Adding special needs really skews the learning speed difference. Not only do those kids need individual attention, but a regular class is not conducive for learning for them. 

Those parents that use tablets to silence their kids or keep them occupied need to grow up. They decided to have kids, so they need to do the effort of making them grow up to be decent people.

Most kids now enjoy to stay on the screen for hours and most things they watch are not of any benefit to them. Sometimes I ask myself questions if that is the world we find ourselves in or what exactly?

I feel like this has at least some at least tangential relationship with another topic of parents infantilising their kids pretty much indefinitely which I think we’ve danced around before but I don’t know if you’ve posted about. 

Just watched a video about Finland. Seems it is a happy country, but there high depression and mental ilness rate. First reason is lack of sunlight in winter in the long winter.