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BROTHER'S KEEPER Bullshit

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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Choosy Mothers" ---Come on now.  It is the unique elements that built character at Hyde.  Don't go all Gary AssCow and over think it.  Fake it until you make it.  Go thought the motions of excellence until you have it in your muscle memory.  It is a way of life, a life time commitment. Use Joe as your role model.   You can do it Ursus.  Dig Deeper.

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I thought that Choosy Mothers choose JIF (peanut butter), not Jeff (Black), but what do I know... And what the hell is so unique about Hyde anyway, save the fact that they dress up abuse and disrespect for a human being's autonomy, call it some oxymoron, and expect people to be too stupid or too well-meaning to pick up on that they have been suckered? The Emperor's New Clothes all over again.

Thanks, but I'm happy enough with my "container" as it is. PPfffttt!!

Ursus:
Malcolm tries again five days later:



Date: August 22, 2005
Subject: Brother's Keeper

Over the years, I have been approached by a number of school heads and teachers who have asked, "Brother's Keeper sounds great! Could you help us add it to our program?" I tend to answer this question with one of my own: "Are you prepared to abandon or at least significantly overhaul your expulsion policy?"
 
If the answer is no, I stress the idea that Brother's Keeper cannot be added to a school culture like a stereo component. It is a holistic concept. Of the many educators who annually visit Hyde, nearly all are both impressed and surprised by Brother's Keeper. Their surprise stems from their shock over the realization that it actually works. More than a few have remarked, "It would never work if you expelled the kids for discipline transgressions." I think this is accurate. It also makes sense. After all, if we're going to ask the kids to make an unusual commitment to their student culture, we, their teachers, must make an unusual commitment to them. Your thoughts?

Anonymous:
"Bullshit" is right on. They always use smoking as an example. But it is used more for judging your attitude and if your with the program, and guess whose judging THAT?

Ursus:
The crap about "holistic concept" always gets me. There is similar or the same language used on the Hyde-DC website as well. There is nothing "holistic" about it. It's called "wrap-around brainwashing" in my book, thank you very much.

They probably realize that smoking is a good "smoking gun" for poster material here. Easy to define, easy to spot, more or less universally frowned upon by all parents and society in general, to boot. The reality that students are turned into petty tin tyrants, feeding off each other's foibles and insecurities, tends to paint a picture not nearly so attractive...

Anonymous:
gotta fake it! or your not going to last it out there.

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