Parents are often the last to realise their children are little horrors and new research from uSwitch has given them another excuse for their little angel failing in school; rubbish internet.
March 27, 2018
Parents are often the last to realise their children are little horrors and new research from uSwitch has given them another excuse for their little angel failing in school; rubbish internet.
The research states that 69% of parents believe the internet is essential to their child’s education while 15% of parents, the equivalent of roughly 1.2 million children believe their little darlings grades are lower than they should be because of poor internet speeds. On average, parents say that their precious bundle of joy does 3.9 hours of homework a week, half of which requires access to the internet.
As you can imagine, YouTube was the top source for children because of the educational resources. The children are certainly not on it to watch cat videos or Fresh Prince of Bel Air bloopers. 38% of respondents also say Wikipedia is a source of educational assistance. Perhaps this is the reason grades are slipping; too much time watching Uncle Phil and using a crowd-sourced online encyclopaedia which can be manipulated by pranksters, trolls and unqualified authors. Some of the posts on Wikipedia might well be honest and accurate, but your correspondent was banned from using it as a source for university papers because there is no guarantee.