CODERS MEETING:
SATURDAY 28th September, 2013
SESSION: 40
COURSE: CODING
COURSE LESSON: CSS
ACTIVITY: ANIMATION EFFECTS: 2.
Concentration Reading Activity:
The article below is a three-paragraph article, without spaces and at some points, no full stops. Read carefully and reconstruct the sentences in the article.
Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Children 1989,article 12 – the provision that children have a right to express their views and have them taken seriously in accordance with their age and maturity–has proved one of the most challenging to implement. Although understanding of childhood and attitudes
towards children differs widely across cultures, the experience of the committee
On the Rights of the Child has been that the reasons for excluding children from
Participate on in matters that affect them are remarkably consistent across different parts of the world, children lack competence; they lack knowledge and judgement; involving the indecisions is to place too heavy a burden on the parents who know what is best for their children giving children a voice will do to excessive demands, bad behaviour and disrespect for elders,participation will expose children to risk of harm.
However, we have learnt over the past 20 years that these concerns are not borne out by the evidence. Time and again, experience shows that children even very young children–given the time and opportunity, demonstrate not only that they have views, experiences and perspectives to express, but that their expression can contribute positively to decisions that not supposed to be there affect the realization of the rights and wellbeing.
Article 12 is as important as a fundamental right: it is a measure of our human dignity that we are able to be involved in decisions that affect us, consistent with our levels of competence. It is also a means through which other rights are realized .It is not possible to claim rights without a voice.