Who do you think is to blame in this scenario?

Question

Read the article in the link below and tell me who you think is most to blame. Is it schools, is it parents? is it both. Also feel free to make other comments on the article

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/28022007/140/townie-children-think-cows-lay-eggs.html

Answer 1

I believe the blame should fall on both the parents and the schools. While these children are young, regardless of what country they're in they should know the basic things.

Answer 2

I would say parents more as when the children are at home you should monitor what they are eating and limit sweets, crisps and thing that are sweet. The school cant really stop the parents putting things in the lunch box that should not be there and school dinners are a lot better now than they used to. The parents could take the children to after school clubs to help them out.

Answer 3

I would say both the schools and parents are to blame as they should teach children the basic knowledge they should know.It's ridiculous as they don't know where the food came from when the food are those which they will face everyday.I think children are sometimes partially at fault because they don't bother to ask the adults or they just ignore it.I believe that if children have the desire to pursue the right answer from the adults,they will be able to know these basic facts.

Answer 4

Hi - I do think its bad if a child doesnt know where eggs come from etc but sometimes its not that straight forward. My daughter is 6 years old (she knows where eggs come from) and I purposefully dont tell her where the meat on her plate comes from. Thats not to say I lie about it, if she asked me I would tell her the truth but its hard enough for me to get her to eat meat (or anything really). She did ask about if chicken on her plate was a dead chicken and I had to explain that it was, tried the some animals are pets some are meat approach but now she rarely eats it. So I dont think I'm a bad parent for not teaching my child about what meat comes from what animal, its just I want her to have a good varied diet. (Doesnt like veg either so vegetarian out of the question).!!!

Answer 5

Both.

Parents should take a more active role in their children's pre schooling years. If this happened then children would know that eggs don't come from cows.

Schooling is also to blame because that is where children get most of their formal education.

Either way, when children think cows come from eggs there is a major failure somewhere along the line that needs to be addressed.

Answer 6

OOPS! I believe there is no fault in that. Yes, it sounds ridiculus that children wouldn't know such basic things. Facts that to any adult are just common sense. If you think about it why would anyone even think to teach children these things? Everyone assumes they just know these facts. Think about this, who taught you where eggs come from, that pork is pig and beef is cow? I don't remember specifically learning these things, some I have vague memories of asking my mom when I was very small. Like "Is ham pig or HAM - burger?
I believe these aren't taught, they are just picked up along the way out of a childs curiosity. Whether or not they know it yet at 8 or 10 depends on if they were ever curious enough to ask.

Answer 7

Hi!

That's VERY interesting!!

I think it's a mixture of both!

However, school teaching these days bears ABSOLUTELY no resemblance to what we were taught a school!!

Handwriting is not corrected, bad spelling is not challenged and ADHD is blamed for everything that goes wrong!!

I despair!!

However, I do keep an eye on my kids' homework and coursework - can't say I understand any of it - but the kids do ok at parents evening and their reports are always decent ones!

Answer 8

It's the way food is produced, packaged and marketed, and the lack of structured mealtimes and conversation at home. Then of course also not discussing the origins of food at school. It's a toxic combination of incompetent child-rearing 'strategies' and noxious cultural influences. I think some urban parents may also be too squeamish and sentimental about animals to explain to children that yes darling, you are eating a dead chicken, which was once (ok....too much to hope probably) running round a farmyard. Maybe best to adopt the Hugh F-W approach. Organic and free-range and local, and tell the little ones as much as is sensible.

Answer 9

I have to say that it is a bit of both, but I am amazed at the results it seems to prove a point that too much time is spent on trying to teach young immigrant kids to speak English that other kids suffer in their education.

Answer 10

that basic information should be learned before the child is old enough for school. Unfortunately if a child urban children have no contact with agriculture, so cannot learn through curiosity and asking questions.