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Issue Date: Mar 15, 1993
-- IN THE latest round of the
unending debate on the effects of
television on children, a British
report states middle-class primary school beginners are
unable. to read because they cannot speak properly. This, says
Jackie Miller of the Professional
Association of Teachers, is
because parents do not talk
much with their children. "We
have kids with their own computer, VCR and personal stereo,
but without a mum or dad who
talks to them," she explains.
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