Why your kids can't read.

I take a look at this nonsense school book reader that the kids walk away from.

In my country, ducks don't nest in trees. No school has thirteen busses. We don't have teenagers at primary schools. This story is nonsense.

I think this is a product of the common core syllabus that originated from the American education system.

My summary is that you cannot learn from a meta book. This thing is not a story book. It has no story, there is not conclusion. It's just a bunch of documents stuck together into a book, but it is not a story.

Yes, I do have too much time on my hands.

01:10 Cover.
01:40 What is the concept?
02:40 Does Monster Picnic mean a big picnic?
03:25 13 busses? are there 600 kids?
03:50 Vocabulary
03:30 Structure
04:55 Meta structure
06:30 How about some context, then specifics?
07:50 You don't need to make everything academic.
08:40 The paragraph starts with And --- What?????
09:10 Is this just a practical?
10:00 Ducklings do not live in trees in my country.
10:30 Wood ducks only live in North America.
10:50 Fragments, hanging
11:30 Context, then specifics.
12:00 Swirling and twirling, never gonna happen!
12:30 More hanging fragments.
13:30 Meaninglessness.
14:00 It needs to be concrete operational.
15:00 How about a real name?
16:00 Book structure again.
16:30 Another character is introduced.
17:00 Seth and Tim.
18:00 How about a style guide?
18:40 It's a book in a book.
19:00 So, its inception?
19:30 I have never seen a turtle in the wild.
20:00 Set a good example.
21:00 Day time bats?
21:30 I had to make a video about it.
22:00 More inconstancy.
22:50 Lack of sense making.
23:40 Meta meta.
24:00 No animals, other than humans, make ladders.
25:00 Seriously? Yum!
25:30 Non sequitur.
26:00 Why is he 13?
27:00 Abstract localisation.
27:50 Set an example.
28:20 It does not mean anything.
28:40 Concrete stories that kids understand.
29:20 There is no story arc.
29:40 It just ends. No conclusion.
31:00 They try to cram in words to match a syllabus.
33:00 Conclusion. Lack of sense making.
33:30 It's a clever book for academics.
34:00 It's triggered my rant reflex.
35:00 There is no story in the story.
36:00 The story then....
37:00 What is this for?
38:00 This book is an academic exercise.
38:40 I don't understand graphic novels and cartoons.
39:00 Conclusion.
39:40 End pont.