Comments on: Can We Disrupt Poverty by Changing How Poor Parents Talk to Their Kids?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:46:27 +0000

When the BBC was big on received pronunciation, Britain went Left in a big way. Coincidence? Fort wouldn’t think so. Maybe we are all someone’s property.

By: Handle

Handle — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:09:16 +0000

I know! We should just turn the TV’s into Skype or Facetime. They need to be on 24/7, and instead of always showing Big Brother, you pair up one low-SES dysfunctional family with one super-elite helicopter family. It’s like a digital umbilical cord or perma-portal. Ultra Pen Pals.

The poor kid gets exposed to all those words, and the rich kid gets the benefit of exposure to diversity, how the other half lives, and ‘empathy’, or something. Occasionally rich mom gently suggests to poor mom to cut it out with all the weed, and poor mom gets to share vocabulary too with her extensive knowledge of contemporary obscenities.

By: Joseph Moroco

Joseph Moroco — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:43:15 +0000

I thought watching Sesame Street would cure the lack of vocabulary. Certainly, when mom leaves Jerry Springer and other shows on, the increase in vocabulary should be vast.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 17:28:01 +0000

It seems to me that it’s just a matter of time before all this interest and effort in educational psychology and the new technology we throw at it will eventually confirm basically every stereotype known to man.