Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Chav hut

I must just say that I was delighted to see that our Sun reading - not got the reading age necessary for the Torygraph - Council have finally decided to help our young people.

They are redecorating the Chav Hut.

How nice - I wonder if they consulted with our future tax payers over the colour scheme?

One last point, will the fence be taken down?



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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

whats a chav hut and where is it? cheers

7/3/07 12:53 pm
The Postman said...

aka the mowlem shelter

7/3/07 1:08 pm
Anonymous said...

Remember the Hoodie?
Going out of fashion now, but still useful if you don't want to appear on Candid Camera.
D'y'know, you can get one with a built in spray mask, so you don't inhale all that nasty paint as you grafiti to your hearts content.
What a great idea.

8/3/07 7:23 pm
Anonymous said...

When I were a lad!
There were very few vandals, but then there were many bombsites and limbless ex-servicemen, so destruction was the last thing on the mind of youth.
I don't remember kids being bored, we were too busy doing things - either outdoors like sport, bike rides, playing in the streets, making camps in the woods, or indoors reading or playing with toy soldiers, Meccano or such.
Mind you, television was more a gimmick and was strictly limited, if not by the BBC, by parental control.
I've often thought about the difference between the world for children then and now, and I keep returning to Education.
From a very early age our minds and memory were trained with learning tables and poems. Our class at Primary school was reading Dickens by age 10 and being introduced to Logic by age 11. A Church of England school, by the way, not private!
So we had the ability to think and reason while young. You need the building blocks - memory, language and maths - to be able to use your brain. And physical exercise to use your body, I suppose.
With regard to bad behaviour, I do remember that in a school of about 200 children aged from 5 to 11, there were only 2 that seemed to be regularly naughty, and looking back they would definitely have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Syndrome or similar nowadays. Only 2 out of 200!
Mind you, when I moved on to secondary school at age 11, there were only 2 out of about 800 children who were on inhalers for Asthma (under 1%). Nowadays this figure, I am told, would more than likely be over 50%.
The world was also based very much on the stick and the carrot - do well, you were rewarded; do badly you were punished. Exams were crucial, we were told that "Life Is An Exam, get used to it!" and "People do judge you on your ability to perform under pressure", and not over a period of time.
As for multiple choice questions, unheard of! That was for babies!
If ever you have the chance to see an old black & white programme like "Ask The Family", watch and weep, because the questions answered by children on that would defeat many adults today.

Conclusion? There are so many factors to consider, but as I recall, the kids who hung around bus shelters in those days were incapable of doing anything more interesting. It certainly wasn't anything to aspire to.
But then, do you really believe that they want to be there?
Give a child a Play Station and you'll keep him quiet for hours. Give a child the ability to think and reason, and the desire to learn, and you'll have someone with the potential to lead a fulfilling life!

9/3/07 5:07 am
Anonymous said...

well said!

9/3/07 8:02 pm
Anonymous said...

I agree, well said.

But, admirable as that is, what about those who hang around the bus stop?

14/3/07 9:57 pm

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