Get over it timmy

Kenny,
Get over it,

We have had academics playing around with the education system for many years and the results have been a complete mess, with students passing through high school (and in some cases university) hardly being able to read or write.

Now academics want to teach children about family, and it is more than likely that it will be a complete mess also.

The author not wanting to commit any details regards this "family education" is not a good sign.

Timkins - we rarely agree. On this we do.

I was an external marker for a Q University last year.

I was sacked on the following grounds:

*The failure rate in the subject that I assessed was too high.
*The students complained that I gave them too much constructive criticism - for example: trying to teach them that a sentence requires a verb! I think you would agree that nurses who do not know that a sentence requires a verb could endanger peoples' lives!

Cheers and PS - I did not take payment for my last marking due to my disgust with the system.

kalweb,
Perhaps the students had become too enthusiastic, to the extent that they left out such things as verbs. Perhaps their educators had not reinforced enough the necessity to have verbs, but with education into families, there is also the danger that the students will become too enthusiastic about starting a family, and leave out such things as fathers or a marriage certificate.

The results of leaving out the marriage certificate are now becoming more widely known (eg http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/pubsexwostrings.htm), but the results of leaving out the fathers are becoming more widely known also (eg http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/experiments.php

All contributors, please define family so that once we have an agreed definition, then 'educators' can have something to run with.

If people won't accept Natural Law or any other guideline that is in breach of their personal situation, what hope?

Good luck with this continued educational adventurism / social manipulation. And to think that milennia of social development has led to this?

Reality Check,
I agree that if educators or academics want to start educating children about families (starting from primary school age) then they would have to have a suitable model of a family.

From the available evidence (some of which I have previously posted), the model family would have to be the traditional nuclear family, with two married parents.

Anything else is a recipe for social disintegration, although that disintegration would occur as a downward spiral, maybe taking 1 – 3 generations