



{"id":993,"date":"2011-11-23T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/new-armenian-tv-series-what-is-it-teaching-our-children\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:51:52","slug":"new-armenian-tv-series-what-is-it-teaching-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/vox-populi-en\/2011\/11\/23\/993\/","title":{"rendered":"New Armenian TV Series: What is it Teaching Our Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Dear people, be careful \u2014 new angels have appeared. Be attentive so that your children aren&#8217;t taken by these angels\u2026 And what angels? Not the ones you know with white wings and halos on their heads; they don&#8217;t appear unexpectedly when you need them. They are a new breed of angels; they are modern-day student-angels \u2014 to put it differently, they are from &#8220;The School of Angels&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">No matter how much I tried to shut off my brain and think, it&#8217;s all the same, nothing will change by what I write, but well what can I do? This is how I am \u2014 I can&#8217;t stay silent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1tv.am\/en\/show\/view\/article\/80\">The School of Angels<\/a>: A new masterpiece from H1 (Armenia&#8217;s Public TV broadcaster), following the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/1tv.am\/en\/show\/view\/article\/115\">Anna<\/a>&#8221; series. What does this &#8220;innocent&#8221; TV series offer? What does it teach our children, what message does it have?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Let me try to somewhat explain this message:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 600px; height: 350px;\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oZn0TBe7ZhE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oZn0TBe7ZhE\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oZn0TBe7ZhE\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">&#8220;Dear students, lose the studying, lose school, lose respect toward teachers, lose all that is sacred and valuable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">&#8220;Girls, it&#8217;s better that you tend to yourselves, style your hair in place, dress well (meet the dress code requirements), while you, boys, diligently cram \u2014 for the jargon that completes your image (so you don&#8217;t fall behind your friends), learn to lie and\u2026 attention! Learn to break each other&#8217;s jaws. You will definitely need this during your fights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">&#8220;Yes, darlings, what&#8217;s the point of studying?&nbsp; What boring and uninteresting pastime have you found? Fall in love; even wreck a family, if necessary; more so, graduating students: you shouldn&#8217;t prepare for exams. You&#8217;re not naive, are you? Find a fearless boyfriend, let him rent an apartment for you and\u2026 run away together. Feels good, eh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Enough already, dear screenwriter, how much more of this can we stand? I, for example, as an average TV viewer, longed for a scene in which, say, one of these student angels prepares a lesson, reads a book (of course I&#8217;m not saying show the entire process of reading a book for hours), does any kind of homework or, say, as a group they discuss a topic that would be of interest, that is appropriate for school-age children. At the end of the day, it&#8217;s a school, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Today, even without this, the word &#8220;teacher&#8221; has lost its sometimes eminence, and you shouldn&#8217;t play more with that fuse\u2026 In the series, mini angels unsparingly ridicule the teacher and it is in no way punished; on the contrary, the principle forces the teacher, contrary to her will, to give good grades to the cruising-in-a-Jeep, always-absent-from-class, but\u2026 but, the most important, son of a money-wielding character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">I understand that to a certain extent it&#8217;s our reality, but you just can&#8217;t do that: television is for not only revealing and presenting reality, but also educating, showing the right way. The jargon and filth on the street shouldn&#8217;t be brought on air and offered &#8220;with care&#8221; to school-age children who are at their &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; age (as at this age they&#8217;re constantly copying and imitating others).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Dears, I have one request: let&#8217;s give good material to be copied, so that we don&#8217;t go looking for who to blame when it&#8217;s &#8220;pasted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\"><strong>Shushan Ohanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\"><strong>Journalist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">School: High school named after Sero Khanzadyan, city of Goris<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">University: Goris State University, Faculty of Armenian Language and Literature<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Favorite book: Oliver Twist<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Favorite music: instrumental music (piano) is more dear to me<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Favorite sport: football (soccer)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Favorite expression: &#8220;No cause is high enough to justify the unworthy means to achieve it&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU';\">Dear people, be careful \u2014 new angels have appeared. Be attentive so that your children aren&#8217;t taken by these angels\u2026 And what angels? Not the ones you know with white wings and halos on their heads; they don&#8217;t appear unexpectedly when you need them. They are a new breed of angels; they are modern-day student-angels \u2014 to put it differently, they are from &#8220;The School of Angels&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16.0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vox-populi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}