OH dear! What a ridiculous headline...

yes it did! You obviously chose to gloss over it as it didn’t back up the opinion you were trying to present.

“There are also children who found the lockdown a positive experience - these children, from supportive but not necessarily well off backgrounds, might have benefited from a greater sense of togetherness with parents and "quality time" as a family“

 

I can't wait for the day that the licence fee ends

 

BBC seem to be blaming schools being shut for something that's the responsibility of parents (teaching your kids how to use a knife and fork).

 

They're pointing out that schools being closed has caused significant harm to Children

 

know someone who works in education, says been deteriorating for years before Covid even started, foundation kids telling teachers to eff off, kids messing themselves,not being able to use cutlery, no reading books ever used at home ,could go on and on, I blame what I am doing now ,wasting my day on tech,I am as bad myself,why would you read a book when you can get a ten kill streak on fortnite

 

You a single parent during a period where your child care has been taken away from you?

 

my sisters been a single parent, my nieces are a credit too her, don't understand what you mean?

 

who does that though?, in school who teaches toilet training etc without funding or time, if teacher in toilet cleaning up a kid. who is teaching other 29 kids are they just running around everywhere?

 

I'm not saying that. But the skills a single parent will teach would be practiced at the child's usual child care/education facility while they're out working. This has been closed but the single parent still has to work and find alternatives where those skills may not be practiced. This is what the ofsted report is highlighting.

In two posts you've successfully managed to demonstrate you have no consideration for the plight of others and are entirely incapable of reasonable debate.

 

And yet as we know there are a LOT of Children in this situation. Instead of slagging off the parents why not ask why that is the case?

Instead of slagging off the parents who may be struggling and just blaming them and offering no support why not ask what's changed this year to mean they have gone backwards?

It's the lockdown and school closure

 

I agree 100% with your point about parenting, I've noticed it myself with regards to general behaviour which is undoubtedly down to parenting. There probably is some truth in school closures making the problem worse, ie the poor kids being forced to spend more time with their feckless parents, something so obvious that maybe the BBC didn't want to say it explicitly.

 

but its been like it for years,tech is to blame, see it myself pushing prams up to school on phones not even looking at kids, thought OMG if that kid runs on road, my mate moaning about his wife not cooking or doing housework, because on Facebook 5 hours a day, its world we live in, if anything lockdown should have helped as you more time to interact with kids , not parents fault its the way the world is, I am as bad,it so easy to waste your day doing nothing important

 

What do you propose as an improvement then? Genuine question, I'm not having a go at you.

This is something I think about a lot; there are many aspects of the BBC that annoy and irritate me, too many to list. However, when I look at the alternatives, commercial TV and radio, they are no better since many of them toe the line dictated by the company - particularly Sky. At least the BBC is a public body funded by us so that we have a say in how it is run (theoretically). Unfortunately successive governments of both political leanings have put pressure on the BBC to be kinder to them. If you want to blame somebody, blame the politicians.

 

Define them. Make them operate like everyone else and if they want to be biased so be it, at least they won't be seen as any more credible just because they're funded by the public.

 

I disagree on this.

I’m concerned that this idea has become commonplace - Murdoch’s media made a conscious effort to spread an anti-BBC narrative a couple of years back, and people have gone along with it.

I think there’s a big difference between getting some opinions through the BBC and the BBC being biased. Having said that, they do get it wrong sometimes. Kuensberg like you say is a bad case - she reports (often breaking important news in 140 characters) with a dose of her opinion included. Or at least a dose of the opinion of her source. I think she should act differently.

Both sides appear to think that the BBC is biased against them. I know loads of people who moan about the “lefty woke BBC”, but also loads who believe it is a tory mouthpiece. Neither are true IMO.

My greater point to everyone is.... be careful what you wish for! A news scene without the BBC might move more towards the American scene - only a series of transparently biased news outlets. Having an organisation with neutrality in it’s rules is a rare and brilliant thing.

 

It hasn't been like it for years because in every other year the schools teach children these skills. This year they haven't. It's different because of lockdown and closures which disproportionately harm children

 

do not pay multi millionaires 1 million plus of our money, to front edited highlights of football, in a world where everyone can see it live or within minutes online, BBC is defunct