“It isn't very clear from this article if they are refering to Cornwall or Nationwide. But i have to say, i went to school in Cornwall and remember school trips to farms in infant and primary school. We also went on school camp to Devon where we milked cows, rounded up sheep and certainly learnt the differnce between the animals and the meat they produced. This was reinforced in secondary school in food technology where we did 40% practical and 60% theory. Im sure that if i didnt already know at the time and i missed these fantastic school trips it would have been down to my parents to teach me the basics! I left School in 2001. Have things changed that much since then??

If, as a parent you noticed your son or daughter couldnt tie their shoe laces when their peers could - who would you blame? The Goverment? No - yourself!!!”

“I really hate that expression, 'money doesn't grow on trees. It's bloody paper, admittedly the ink is understandable but the paper, that most certainly is a frickin' tree. If you're commenting on a news article about education, make sure you don't leave a gap in your armour like that.

Now it's so easy to blame the schools, the council and the government, but really it's the parents that should be fortifying the basics in their children's minds. The schools have more important things to teach, like Noah's Ark and how to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm, and they choose to spend the time they have with the children as wisely as they can. Now if you are a parent and feel worried that your child is a borderline retard on the subject of where Bacon comes from sit them down and don't be afraid to talk to them...!

It's like parents think we carry a fricking fatal disease or something, because they just prefer to unload us on to the school instead of correcting something that is most definitely their problem to deal with.”

“Why blame this on the education system? The examples quoted are things the children should have got from their parents. Too often the teachers get stick for the shortcomings at home and they have my sympathy. The very basics of education are being neglected. My children could read before they went to school as I'm sure could many others whose parents took the time.”

“Well! when I was sent out by Hea moor school in the early 1940's to help with the harvest and war effort at Jelberts farms in Bone Valley and Gulval I had no idea
I am trying to remember the name of the Farmer who farmed the land where in the area the new Heamoor school is. He had a great relationship with kids and taught them to milk cows.
That it was all part of my education.”

“I know what you mean Max. Don't even get me started on the Federal Reserve.... Cheers.

Best Freethinker”

“@Freethinker
'When the president signs (Fed. reserve) this act the invisible monetary govt will be legal' and there were 6 countries without a Rothschild bank, Iraq was one and the other 5 are easy to guess.”

“Its not just about schools and the government, I was taught most of this at home!

Children need to be taught this at home and at school, unfortunately parents blame it on the schools....the schools blame it on the parents.

Time to stop blaming and teach the kids, values, core life requirements and respect. All of which I've found recently just isn't happening”

“No Max, its printed out of thin air instead. Don't you just love fiat currency or paper money. "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its law". Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Freethinker”

“Hilarious. Frightening but hilarious all the same.
I was never taught at school about where bacon comes from, i expect the education authority thought that my parents would have got that one out of the way.
I dont think that you can blame the schools or the government or the tv. Its the parents fault for allowing the kids to saunter through life not giving a thought to anything.”

“this is not down to labour education - i left comprehensive in cornwall in 84 - mid Tory reign and there were articles then that said surveys in inner cities show kids didn't know where milk came from.

I have 2 young children and there are plenty of childrens programs on terrestrial television that show farms etc and where food comes from - Big Cook, Little Cook etc etc.
but don't forget we have had 15 years of crap american disney shows beamed via satellite and all i see are endless streams of americanised kids who don't give a stuff where anything comes from as long as they get it when they want it.
americans are as brainless in this regards as they are about geography!
ban the disney channel and the like from under 10 year olds viewing and you might see some improvement in their general knowledge.”