Should Our Children Be Brain Wages?

[anotheoldgit]

I have just seen on TV news school children dressed in high viz jackets out on the streets advising parents to switch off their engines to prevent polution.
These youngsters should be inside learning the three Rs not telling adults what to do.

[anotheoldgit]

Brain washed

[Old_Geezer]

Brain wages ?

Whose buying these jackets ?

[Old_Geezer]

Oh. Well it's probably well intentioned but adults are capable of making their own decision re a short stop with the engine on or the wear and hassle of switching it off and on again. I doubt the situation they refer to makes much odds in the larger picture.

[douglas9401]

The teachers have it half right with the hi-viz.


Seen but not heard.

[Zacs-Master]

A bit more background from the actual school (well, i presume it's the actual school):

http://headsup.russellscottblogs.net/

[retrocop]

Seems to be the current trend Mr aog. There was a little Scots lad on the box yesterday castigating people ,especially Bear Grylls, about the treatment of sharks and keeping them in captivity.We have the Swedish girl and now the kids you mention. I supposed it is intended to tug our heart strings. I can only see them as budding future Extinction Rebellion fodder.

[ToraToraTora]

I know a good way of cutting pollution, stop driving the snowflakes to school in the first place. My mum took me to school once, the very first day, after that I walked cycled bused, whatever. Gawd in my day the ribbing would have been merciless if I'd got a lift top school.

[douglas9401]

And you'd have deserved it for arriving in the family sedan chair, Tora. :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Well done to all the Schools and especially all the pupils for getting involved.

[hereIam]

I agree with that little Scots lad about the cruel treatment of sharks. Good for him.

[THELOONYCORBYN]

I suppose they think using kids means theyll get an easier ride (pun intended) on SM....oh no they wont, oh yes they will...
theyre getting protective about that stupid little brat greta whatever her name is...

how long before the schools give them a day off to protest this ?..

[Mamyalynne]

TTT has it right and that is exactly what this school and many others are doing, yet they get stick over it.

Odd that.

[ichkeria]

It’s a very good idea.
One is never too old to learn

[Mozz71]

//theyre getting protective about that stupid little brat greta whatever her name is...//

I was thinking that nobody's insulted Greta for a few days and there must be one due soon. I knew TLC wouldn't let us down. He gets all crabby if he hasn't verbally abused a schoolgirl for more than a day or two.

Just because kids disagree with the majority of folks on here, it doesn't make them brainwashed. Well, no more than it makes you lot brainwashed by the Daily Mail/Fox News/Sun/Telegraph etc.

[Ellipsis]

>TLC

What an inappropriate initialism ...

[ludwig]

Are the nasty schoolchildren upsetting everyone again? Awwwww.

[pixie374]

Children are certainly more aware nowadays, due to social media etc... they are no more brainwashed than we are by the media really.
Good for them.. being younger doesn't automatic make them wrong.

[pixie374]

^ please translate to English :-)

[pixie374]

All children that I know, walk to school, ttt. Where do you live??

[Ellipsis]

More than half of children are driven to school, either by car or by bus:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476635/travel-to-school.pdf

Age 5-10: 46% car, 5% bus, 46% walk, 3% other
Age 11-16: 23% car, 29% bus, 38% walk, 10% other

It seems the big shift between primary and secondary is from the car to the bus, which is good, but still almost 1 in 4 secondary school children are driven to school in a car.