Isn’t one of the criticisms in episode 2 that everything is taught by video now? This seems a bit ironic.
It’s admirable that schools are trying to address the issues raised in Adolescence, but just simply showing kids a TV series isn’t the way. They’ll laugh at it and be doing impressions of Stephen Graham saying “eat yer cornies, lad” for weeks. Because that’s what kids do.
Maybe they can watch REeefer Madness after it. A powerful film about the dangers of marihuana. Or Mazes and Monsters, a hard hitting real film about the dangers of Dungeons and Dragons.
Children dont comitt murder because of video games, Andrew Tate and their dad being a bit shouty. They come from environments of violence and abuse. I understand its a well made programme and that theres a great deal of marketing behind it, but this is long past the point of being disgusting.
As a teacher getting kids to pay attention to a video any longer than an average tiktok video is basically impossible so good luck with this I guess.
Pure propaganda
Educational videos are really effective with teenagers. Great move this is gonna sort out the incels.
What absolute nonsense.
Every single show we were shown to ‘teach us’ about a given issue at school was mercilessly mocked and joked about for months afterwards.
Maybe go after fb,insta and tiktok and the mountain of bullshit homophobic, fascist content that’s so readily available or at least teach kids they can’t form worldviews from 20 second reels. Andrew Tate and co are a symptom of a much larger problem that lies within social media as whole.
We watched that Romeo and Juliet with the nudity which eventually turned out to be coerced and dodgy and the lass was underage. A different time.
This is frankly idiotic.
The show is entirely through the lens of adults, realising how out of touch they are with their kids’ lives.
The message of it is that society needs to be more involved, particularly parents.
And the idea is to show it to kids… to teach them what exactly?
It’s like loving a documentary about habitat loss so much that you decide to show it to whales.
How many conversations even are there between kids in the show? One or two?
What drivel.
>The classroom rollout came after the Prime Minister said the shot “hit home hard”.
>The classroom rollout comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
And that silly stuff too, typical Daily Rancid.
Surely that’s April’s fools right? Surely uk adults can’t be missing the point this badly? SURELY?
So will they address the actually issue?
You know like give good positive male role models an actual light.
Fund youth groups again.
Give young boys purpose.
Address the growing attainment gap.
Stamp down on shitty grifters.
No just a three part video and call it good I guess.
Nothing more than a next to pointless sticking placer on an open festering infected wound
“Hey everyone, we have a serious problem with boys and young men being violent and abusive towards girls and women, any suggestions for how to tackle this?”
“We could make sure that tiktok and other social media companies stop promoting misogynistic content that radicalises young males.
We could set up and properly fund mixed gender youth groups to get young people out socialising and doing fun activities rather than isolated in their bedrooms.
We could launch campaigns to encourage parents to actually engage with their sons and help them to develop healthy ways of dealing with their emotions and relating to girls as people.”
“Nah, too much effort, lets just show them a 4 part Netflix drama and call it a day”.
Can people really not grasp any issues without some fucking dramatisation these days?
Feels like it.
Also feels like clueless oldies not remembering what it’s like to be a kid, they’ll rip the piss out of this.
This doesn’t feel as hard hitting as showing us the video is Leah Betts’ dead body slumped in her room after taking ecstasy.
The video was called “Sorted” (I assume referencing the Pulp song, although from memory the soundtrack was Wonderwall).
What about the radicalisation of Muslim males into Islamic extremism manifesting in knife and bombing attacks? 50,000 approx on watch list in the UK.
I think we all could do with having a think about how we treat each other as human beings. How boys treat girls, how women treat men, how Muslims treat Jews, how the old treat the young , how we all disappear to our little corners of the internet and self reinforce our beliefs there.
Zeroing in on this one aspect of teenage boys seems to me very focussed and will put all the pressure on them to change in relation to others. It’s unfair. We all have skin in this game.
it feels like we’re really inventing every possible way to avoid parents having to actually talk to their kids and care about their lives, just show them a show and be like that will do it! figure it out kids
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Isn’t one of the criticisms in episode 2 that everything is taught by video now? This seems a bit ironic.
It’s admirable that schools are trying to address the issues raised in Adolescence, but just simply showing kids a TV series isn’t the way. They’ll laugh at it and be doing impressions of Stephen Graham saying “eat yer cornies, lad” for weeks. Because that’s what kids do.
Maybe they can watch REeefer Madness after it. A powerful film about the dangers of marihuana. Or Mazes and Monsters, a hard hitting real film about the dangers of Dungeons and Dragons.
Children dont comitt murder because of video games, Andrew Tate and their dad being a bit shouty. They come from environments of violence and abuse. I understand its a well made programme and that theres a great deal of marketing behind it, but this is long past the point of being disgusting.
As a teacher getting kids to pay attention to a video any longer than an average tiktok video is basically impossible so good luck with this I guess.
Pure propaganda
Educational videos are really effective with teenagers. Great move this is gonna sort out the incels.
What absolute nonsense.
Every single show we were shown to ‘teach us’ about a given issue at school was mercilessly mocked and joked about for months afterwards.
Maybe go after fb,insta and tiktok and the mountain of bullshit homophobic, fascist content that’s so readily available or at least teach kids they can’t form worldviews from 20 second reels. Andrew Tate and co are a symptom of a much larger problem that lies within social media as whole.
We watched that Romeo and Juliet with the nudity which eventually turned out to be coerced and dodgy and the lass was underage. A different time.
This is frankly idiotic.
The show is entirely through the lens of adults, realising how out of touch they are with their kids’ lives.
The message of it is that society needs to be more involved, particularly parents.
And the idea is to show it to kids… to teach them what exactly?
It’s like loving a documentary about habitat loss so much that you decide to show it to whales.
How many conversations even are there between kids in the show? One or two?
What drivel.
>The classroom rollout came after the Prime Minister said the shot “hit home hard”.
>The classroom rollout comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
And that silly stuff too, typical Daily Rancid.
Surely that’s April’s fools right? Surely uk adults can’t be missing the point this badly? SURELY?
So will they address the actually issue?
You know like give good positive male role models an actual light.
Fund youth groups again.
Give young boys purpose.
Address the growing attainment gap.
Stamp down on shitty grifters.
No just a three part video and call it good I guess.
Nothing more than a next to pointless sticking placer on an open festering infected wound
“Hey everyone, we have a serious problem with boys and young men being violent and abusive towards girls and women, any suggestions for how to tackle this?”
“We could make sure that tiktok and other social media companies stop promoting misogynistic content that radicalises young males.
We could set up and properly fund mixed gender youth groups to get young people out socialising and doing fun activities rather than isolated in their bedrooms.
We could launch campaigns to encourage parents to actually engage with their sons and help them to develop healthy ways of dealing with their emotions and relating to girls as people.”
“Nah, too much effort, lets just show them a 4 part Netflix drama and call it a day”.
Can people really not grasp any issues without some fucking dramatisation these days?
Feels like it.
Also feels like clueless oldies not remembering what it’s like to be a kid, they’ll rip the piss out of this.
This doesn’t feel as hard hitting as showing us the video is Leah Betts’ dead body slumped in her room after taking ecstasy.
The video was called “Sorted” (I assume referencing the Pulp song, although from memory the soundtrack was Wonderwall).
What about the radicalisation of Muslim males into Islamic extremism manifesting in knife and bombing attacks? 50,000 approx on watch list in the UK.
I think we all could do with having a think about how we treat each other as human beings. How boys treat girls, how women treat men, how Muslims treat Jews, how the old treat the young , how we all disappear to our little corners of the internet and self reinforce our beliefs there.
Zeroing in on this one aspect of teenage boys seems to me very focussed and will put all the pressure on them to change in relation to others. It’s unfair. We all have skin in this game.
it feels like we’re really inventing every possible way to avoid parents having to actually talk to their kids and care about their lives, just show them a show and be like that will do it! figure it out kids
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