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Television entertains, but can it also educate? Do you agree?

#television
This
 year, in the quarantine, TV tried to give some help for the primary students with some classes. To my mind, it did not work.
Firstly
, the classes that television gives are too basics. I saw some
maths
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math
 classes, and they were not doing the exercises correctly, they were laughing and making the programme really pretty, but they have forgotten
of
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about
 the most important thing: help students with their homework.
Secondly
, they
are always giving
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are always given
 false information. TV does not
check revise
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check, revise
 the information that they
givegives
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give gives
 and the parents of the children do not do it
also
. They are really irresponsible and makes that the students can not couldn’t learn. They
try tries
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try, try
try try
 to make it funny and
entertaining but
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entertaining, but
 they do not do the classes well.
For example
, the math’s exercises or the history information.
On the other hand
, cartoons have some morals or actions that could help children in the real life,
such
 as like
helps
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helping
to help
 old people crossing the street or do not do something that could annoy you. To conclude, TV would never replace the
school but
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school, but
 can
helps
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help
 teaching some actions of the real life.
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