{"id":2985,"date":"2017-08-18T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/18\/experts-attack-channel-4s-exploitative-child-genius\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:18:08","slug":"experts-attack-channel-4s-exploitative-child-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2985","title":{"rendered":"Experts attack Channel 4&#039;s &#039;exploitative&#039; Child Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Berliner of Education Media Centre says she is \u2018horrified\u2019 by programme that purports to identify Britain\u2019s cleverest childChild Genius, the Channel 4 series that will claim to identify the country\u2019s cleverest child, has been compared to a circus exploiting children by educational experts and criticised as a \u201cmissed opportunity\u201d by an authority on gifted children.The current series has repeatedly run into controversy. Its makers were accused of putting children as young as nine years old under pressure akin to child abuse. Parents were also accused of pressuring their children and of cheating to help them improve their scores. And viewers have targeted the young contestants for getting upset when they fail to perform as well as they hoped. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/aug\/18\/channel-4-child-genius-criticised-exploitative\" target=\"_blank\">Experts attack Channel 4&#039;s &#039;exploitative&#039; Child Genius<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Berliner of Education Media Centre says she is \u2018horrified\u2019 by programme that purports to identify Britain\u2019s cleverest childChild Genius, the Channel 4 series that will claim to identify the country\u2019s cleverest child, has been compared to a circus exploiting children by educational experts and criticised as a \u201cmissed opportunity\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}