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PBS is it needed for today's youth?

chrish said:
Go to Lawrence, Mass where lots of so called poor people live or so we are always told, every tenement has no fewer than 25 satellite dishes on each and the Lawrence Comcast office is so full of poor people with many kids in tow you can hardly get in the door. Few are watching over the air TV in these parts.
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The last time I was in there (Glenn St. Lawrence) was to swap out my traditional cable box for the current digital-with-the DVR that I'm using now. Some chairs not being used; took a number; got served in a reasonable period of time; left. Just like the RMV. Not as lot of kids; you get that at the Market Basket supermarkets that nearly touch the city limits in Methuen and North Andover.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Kids will not watch educational TV (or what they think is educational) when they actually enter school). They don't want to be educated outside of school hours
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Then my kids are not normal because they all watched shows like Sesame Street and other educational shows when they were young. Most kids love to learn. That is why they have a never-ending series of questions. If you treat their questions seriously and either provide the answers or teach them how to get their own answers they will learn forever.

My three "kids" are now young adults but they are still learning.
 
I think the premise of this question is all wrong. Kids don't need TV - period. My kids will watch some TV, but generally turn it off after a half hour or so and want to go play or read. My kids currently have about 50 books checked out from the local library. We've worked very hard to make sure they can read at an early age and it's paid off. It's not that they don't watch TV, they just don't watch a lot of it. If we didn't have cable or even "over the air" TV, they'd watch a show or two on DVD each day and be done with it. There's no need for PBS or anyone else to offer a long list of shows to kids 24/7.
 
You may be correct but kids these days don't seem to have the attention span for even television anymore judging from what I observe at my nieces house when seeing her kids or when they have their kids friends over. So hyperactive, none of them are able to focus on anything for more than seconds at a time.
Big change from how the nieces and nephews were in the 70's-80's and early 90's.
 
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