Children knowing nothing about wildlife

[Guest traceyg]

I am not the teacher i look after the children with problems and special needs (gta)

[albert64 1,882]

at my kids school they still have the tadpole tank, and every year they get an incubator and hatch out a load of chicks, my daughter who's just 6 tells everyone who'll listen how the dog and ferrets work together to catch rabbits, the headmaster has asked if she can take in the young ferrets to show the other children,

[ratattack 111]

Theres plenty adults who know naff all about wildlife! I come across people weekly who don't know the difference between a bumblebee and a wasp for example! Mice are rats etc etc So i'm not surprised kids know nothing about the world away from the tv!

[chimp 299]

i think a little nature trail walk would do them kids good , put it to the headmaster

[clint 45]

you tell them to read THL, they learn all here. Is very imformative.

[mouse 282]

my wife teaches in a private school and since she has been there she has made a nature area where she can take the kids and sit and learn about wildlife.in our kids village school they are all countryside people and when we are near there with hounds they all come out to have a look and the daughter spends the rest of the day telling the rest of the kids the names of the hounds.

[Neal 1,870]

Not all teachers are the same.

 

I've been teaching for thirteen years now, mostly in inner city schools, and I always tell the kids I teach, ranging from 3 to 11 year olds, about my ferreting trips etc. I've also taken one of my ferrets and a kelpie into school to do a pre-visit talk before we took them to a country show.

 

Whenever I teach food chains and food webs I make sure I include the lamb - fox link and when we do the ubiquitous fox hunting topic in year 6 they get the true facts to balance their tv based arguements.

 

Also, my son is only just over 22 months old but he already knows what a pigeon is; he claps his hands whenever he sees one as I've taught him to do that to shoo them out of the garden.

[Rake aboot 4,936]

Just try asking a bunch of 17 yr olds if a duck can fly,,and sit back and enjoy

[Hob&Jill 258]

To be honest its not only kids, lets face it some parts of society know about wildlife, others dont. Its always going to be like that and always has. I know plenty of adults who are know feck all too.

[poacher3161 1,766]

To be honest its not only kids, lets face it some parts of society know about wildlife, others dont. Its always going to be like that and always has. I know plenty of adults who are know feck all too.

I agree totally.Its just [bANNED TEXT] i was growing up in the 60s in the industrial heartland of south yorkshire and most kids were just being educated to end up in mineing or the steel works the schools i attended always taught about nature and back then we had programs like animal magic and survival and every kid knew the difference between a blackbird and a starling.atb dell

[iamduvern 62]

Its sad as our children in schools are just been programed for eventual consumerism and most are not been taught about nature in any way.I can remember in infant school having a nature table and even those shoes with the tracks of different british mammals on the soles got kids intrested at a young age and a fish tank with tadpoles in to watch them  transform into small frogs not to mention the eye spy books and the observer books.Jeezz am showing my age now atb dell

 

Don't blame the schools blame the parents learning begins at home from an early age The Hertfordshire junior school curriculum still teaches wildlife studies but day trips to nature reserves are few and far between due to health and safety and risk assesment issues

 

 

How many parents even read to kids these days let alone take them out and let them get muddy looking for beetles and sticklebacks

 

 

[Guest traceyg]

Its sad as our children in schools are just been programed for eventual consumerism and most are not been taught about nature in any way.I can remember in infant school having a nature table and even those shoes with the tracks of different british mammals on the soles got kids intrested at a young age and a fish tank with tadpoles in to watch them transform into small frogs not to mention the eye spy books and the observer books.Jeezz am showing my age now atb dell

 

Don't blame the schools blame the parents learning begins at home from an early age The Hertfordshire junior school curriculum still teaches wildlife studies but day trips to nature reserves are few and far between due to health and safety and risk assesment issues

 

 

How many parents even read to kids these days let alone take them out and let them get muddy looking for beetles and sticklebacks

 

 

But the children need teaching to pass on its a circle that needs to be on the go if they don't know they cant teach . more tv programs should be on about nature or the classic films like kez

[scothunter 12,609]

maybe if they brought out a video game on wildlife for an xbox or ps3 then they wouldnt be long in learning.thats what maj kids do all day these days

[GET THEM OUT (.)(.) 39]

this moment in time my 3 year old brother is horse riding so he can start to go with the hounds, he will point ouyt pigeons in the sky and tell us its a pigeon, he is hardly wrong, he will carry bunnys from the back of the pick up to the shed, when taken to the dog shows my old deer looses him in the pack of hounds, he knows a massive variety of wildlife, not long ago my mum got a phone call from nusery saying that he has a problem with his eye, my mum went in to see him and he seemed to be fine so asked how did they notice, the staff has asked him to count the adults in the room, he closed one eye and counted all the adults, he was aiming at the adults as he has a old scope as a toy , , always playing with the ferrets, , my mum was a helper for special needs kids, and alot of them loved hunting, she use to tell them storys of me and my dogs to calm them down,

 

last season i was short for beaters on a friday night, so asked a couple of lasses i was with at the time, they both said yes, so i quizzed them abit, i asked what you gotta do ? well scare them birds out of them holes so you can shoot them !! when i was a kid i use to sell rabbits at school to my mates, sneak them in and sell them in the cloak room, my mum worked there at the time, and walked in half way thro a lesson sniffed up and with in seconds glared straight at me, i shite my pants, she could smell the fecking bunnys in the cloak room lol, the teacher did find it funny tho, its to easy now for parents to entertain the kids, buy them a playstation and stick them on it,

[Guest traceyg]

this moment in time my 3 year old brother is horse riding so he can start to go with the hounds, he will point ouyt pigeons in the sky and tell us its a pigeon, he is hardly wrong, he will carry bunnys from the back of the pick up to the shed, when taken to the dog shows my old deer looses him in the pack of hounds, he knows a massive variety of wildlife, not long ago my mum got a phone call from nusery saying that he has a problem with his eye, my mum went in to see him and he seemed to be fine so asked how did they notice, the staff has asked him to count the adults in the room, he closed one eye and counted all the adults, he was aiming at the adults as he has a old scope as a toy , , always playing with the ferrets, , my mum was a helper for special needs kids, and alot of them loved hunting, she use to tell them story of me and my dogs to calm them down,

 

last season i was short for beaters on a Friday night, so asked a couple of lasses i was with at the time, they both said yes, so i quizzed them abit, i asked what you gotta do ? well scare them birds out of them holes so you can shoot them !! when i was a kid i use to sell rabbits at school to my mates, sneak them in and sell them in the cloak room, my mum worked there at the time, and walked in half way throw a lesson sniffed up and with in seconds glared straight at me, i shite my pants, she could smell the fecking bunny's in the cloak room lol, the teacher did find it funny tho, its to easy now for parents to entertain the kids, buy them a play-station and stick them on it,

 

i just love it when a member has a good input to a post really enjoyed reading this and made me smile thank you