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- From: lynn@elan.Elan.COM (Lynn Gazis)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Sesame Street is HARMFUL to children (Was something else)
- Message-ID: <1255@elan.Elan.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:48:50 GMT
- References: <KMURPHY.92Dec16095759@orangutan.cv.nrao.edu> <dlhanson.16.724534415@nap.amoco.com> <1992Dec16.200833.1138@tessi.com> <1992Dec21.180945.9326@ttinews.tti.com>
- Reply-To: lynn@elan (Lynn Gazis)
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- Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- Reid Kneeland writes:
-
- > the sheer entertainment
- > value of the show can spoil kids for real school. Unless their teacher
- > is Robin Williams, school is going to seem mind-numbingly dull after a
- > few years of Sesame Street.
-
- You may be right about the show being too fast-moving (I haven't seen
- it in years, and don't know), but I'm a little dubious of this
- argument. Isn't school also likely to be mind-numbingly dull compared
- with many things normal intelligent parents are likely to do with
- their children? Dick and Jane were mind-numingly dull compared to
- the books my parents read to me, and which I read, at home, but I
- certainly don't think my parents should have had fewer interesting
- books.
-
- Lynn Gazis-Sax
-