If kids need to learn about history, they can just Google it! All kidding aside, really the debate going in UK schools is that kids will not learn to appreciate the Art of Reading for what it is...

One of the comments made an excellent point: Why teach Twitter & SM to kids when they already know how to work the Internet better than we do!

Well, if they alter the curriculum, it will be the biggest change the school system has seen in over a decade.

I say Twit lil Tweeters!

The English led the world in literacy, it is the land of poets. Would be a shame to Twitter it all away, decline of intelligent literacy, grammar, etc, for web chat.

I agree. It was Clipped because it was both shocking and humorous.

A friend of mine just had a first Grandchild and said she was going to start a collection of "something" for the baby...perhaps Barbie Dolls.

I told her there will be plenty of dolls in the child's life that will come and go. She needs to start a collection of BOOKS and literature. Books are something of substance to be cherished for a lifetime.