Poetry incites kids to knife crime...?
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Thank you for the link and lack of complaint/dickness, I appreciate it.high sandwich maker of lamuella said:
Idiots.
I don't know how many times I have to say this. Media in any form, be it film, book, music or videogame cannot make anyone do anything. To suggest otherwise is preposterous. If a person decides that it would be fun to go and carry out some stupid or horrible thing they saw in a film or game or read in a book then it is the fault of that person alone, and is an indication of either:
1. Shitty parenting.
2. Severe mental problems/imbalances.
3. A combination of the two.
I don't know how many times I have to say this. Media in any form, be it film, book, music or videogame cannot make anyone do anything. To suggest otherwise is preposterous. If a person decides that it would be fun to go and carry out some stupid or horrible thing they saw in a film or game or read in a book then it is the fault of that person alone, and is an indication of either:
1. Shitty parenting.
2. Severe mental problems/imbalances.
3. A combination of the two.
Removing this poem will slow knife crime the same way removing Huckleberry Finn curtails racism.
The problem is that schools always teach the most boring poetry. Wordsworth doesn't work too well in the 21st century. If they taught material that is more contemporary and relevant to the interests of younger minds, perhaps poetry can shake the stink of being dull and atrocious.Aardvark said:
When I first found about this a while back, when it was first taken off, ohh the rage it incited in me. Bah. Just another item in the list of the Government's lovely plan to appear as though they're reducing knife crime by targeting the wrong things.
Even though the poem doesn't glorify the deranged protagonist, it depicts him as a massive social reject and general undesirable.
As though the people who commit knife crime are even going to be studying their poetry.......
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Even though the poem doesn't glorify the deranged protagonist, it depicts him as a massive social reject and general undesirable.
As though the people who commit knife crime are even going to be studying their poetry.......
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Ha, I was about to quote that exact poem when reading your thread...
Yes, it's ridiculous. Do they really think our youth's knife gang culture is inspired by Carol Ann Duffey? Do me a fucking favour...
Yes, it's ridiculous. Do they really think our youth's knife gang culture is inspired by Carol Ann Duffey? Do me a fucking favour...
Left wing.. Right wing.. hmm.
Censorship is always a bad idea. But then the UK has been nothing but refused basic rights forever so this honestly doesn't surprise me.
When I read that article I got the image of a teacher standing over her student, clapping a book shut on the students desk and sending them to the principal for trying to learn things.
Censorship is always a bad idea. But then the UK has been nothing but refused basic rights forever so this honestly doesn't surprise me.
When I read that article I got the image of a teacher standing over her student, clapping a book shut on the students desk and sending them to the principal for trying to learn things.
*sigh* so in theory, if this kid were to have read Mien Kampf, he would have killed some Jews? I am so sick of people blaming stuff on the media. "Video games make people violent!!" maybe so, but how many murders are there directly related to video games each year? Like 100, maybe. How many games sold? Millions. So out of the millions of people to buy these games, only 100 became violent? Thats like .1%, yet people still rally to it when they want violent games banned.
OK, while I think it probably isn't the best poem to be torturing anyone with teaching to the current youth of today because of the links to knife crime and also godawful crimes to humanity committed to paper by her. I don't really think that taking it off the curriculum is really going to stop kids from going out in a gang and stabbing someone and instead go and hug flowers and fairies.
It is probably for the best to keep knife crime a topic that isn't discussed or thought about in the classroom, unless it is about how its bad and you shouldn't do it in PSE lessons.
It is probably for the best to keep knife crime a topic that isn't discussed or thought about in the classroom, unless it is about how its bad and you shouldn't do it in PSE lessons.
Right, because all those kids in the poetry club are loose cannons who could just go off at any moment. It's just not safe wandering around schools with all those literature nerds threatening to shank anybody who walks by. They're almost as gangsta as the drama club.
