[senco-forum] Separate forum for the teaching of reading/literacy

I never ever take offence at any comment from anyone in a

Er... forgive my ignorance but why can't you all use SENCo
forum to discuss these issues?

Anyone not interested in discussing them simply won't join
in.

You could even put the word 'Illiteracy' in brackets at the
beginning of the subject line. That way people could set up
their mail programmes to delete these or only keep these and
no other forum posts.

Yours tongue-firmly-in-cheek friday feelingly

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "eddiecarron" <eddiecarron at btconnect.com>
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Subject: [senco-forum] Separate forum for the teaching of
reading/literacy
Date: 08-Dec-2006 13:16:49 GMT

> I never ever take offence at any comment from anyone in a
> debate. I regard a debating forum as no place for the
> faint-hearted. Challenge and controversy
> 
> are the life blood of any debating forum. Any forum where
> these are absent has lost the entire reason for its
> existence.
> 
>  
> 
> It is not an opinion, it is a fact that in the United
> Kingdom, 100,000 children leave school every year less
> than functionally literate and yet any examination of the
> topics discuss on this forum which is theoretically
> dedicated to the resolution of illiteracy, shows that this
> is just not a matter of interest!  One adult in five
> cannot read the correct dosage on a child's medicine
> bottle - that is not an unavoidable situation - but those
> who should best be able to contribute to its resolution
> appear not to be interested in do so.
> 
>  
> 
> A great many people no longer subscribe to this forum for
> that very reason - some have contacted me off-list and I
> have advised them to subscribe again, at least long enough
> to support the cause of a literacy-focused debating forum
> -  It is surely self-evident from the topics discussed,
> that illiteracy is just not a topical issue for existing 
> contributors. 
> 
>  
> 
> If those who are charged with the responsibility of
> resolving illiteracy simply don't want to discuss the
> issue, then so be it.  I do not think it right however
> that in addition to their disinterest they should have the
> power to make sure that a literacy-focused forum should
> not be created. What possible harm could it do to a senco
> forum whose contributors are not interest in literacy
> anyway.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Eddie Carron
> 
>  
> 
> 
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