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The Cheating Crisis in our Schools
Ursus:
Jeez...
--- Quote ---"The competition is greater, the pressures on kids have increased dramatically," said Mel Riddle of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "They have opportunities their predecessors didn't have (to cheat). The temptation is greater."
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--- Quote ---Riddle, who for four decades was a high school teacher and principal in northern Virginia, agreed that more pressure could lead to more cheating, yet spoke in defense of today's students.
"I would take these students over other generations," he said. "I found them to be more responsive, more rewarding to work with, more appreciative of support that adults give them.
"We have to create situations where it's easy for kids to do the right things," he added. "We need to create classrooms where learning takes on more importance than having the right answer."
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Jeez Louise... They spelled his name wrong. The correct spelling is "Riddile."
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ajc.com > Associated Press story
Correction: Students-Dishonesty story
NEW YORK — In a Nov. 30 story about a survey of high school students' honesty, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of an expert affiliated with the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He is Mel Riddile, not Riddle.
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December 1, 2008 - 2:10 p.m. Copyright 2008, The Associated Press.
Ursus:
Mel Riddile... Former Straight, Inc. administrator and clinician... Check out THIS website for some more information on Mel Riddile; a brief excerpt follows:
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Thank you for visiting MELRIDDILE.INFO.
This site was created to educate the public about the role of Dr. Mel Riddile in directing the systematic physical and psychological abuses of thousands of teenagers in a drug treatment program called STRAIGHT, INC. and his recent refusal to condemn the abusive practices.
Many people mistakenly believe the last STRAIGHT, INC. closed in the early '90's.
In fact, teenagers are CURRENTLY subjected to systematic abuse in drug treatment programs directly related to STRAIGHT, INC
Mel Riddile knows all about the abusive nature of this kind of coercive and deadly therapy. Riddile directed the Springfield, Virginia branch of STRAIGHT, INC. and was responsible for starting new branches and training new directors when he was promoted to Regional Director.
During an interview with former program clients in early 2003, Dr. Riddile was informed that several branches of STRAIGHT, INC. did NOT close - they merely changed names and use the SAME treatment methods today.
We have documents from the programs that CANNOT be disputed. Click here to see them.
In 2005, Graduates of STRAIGHT, INC. asked Mel Riddile to help stop this form of treatment once and for all.
Considering his vast knowledge of the STRAIGHT, INC. treatment modality and his extensive background in education, it made sense that he would be more than willing to help us stop the abuse.
Riddile declined the request.
We can only assume that Riddile STILL supports and endorses the methods used by STRAIGHT, INC. and it's descendent programs.
Please take the time to learn more about this ongoing problem and urge Dr. Riddile to help the Graduates of STRAIGHT, INC. end the abuse NOW!
More Information About STRAIGHT, INC.
TheStraights.Com, the best source of information on STRAIGHT, INC., is owned by Wesley Fager. Mr. Fager's son was in Straight, Springfield while Riddile was Director.
Rick Ross is an expert on cults and dangerous groups. Numerous experts have classified STRAIGHT, INC. as a cult.
Steve Matthews spent 2 1/2 YEARS on First Phase under the direction of Mel Riddile. Steve killed himself 9 months after finally being released from STRAIGHT, INC.
Ambassador Mel Sembler founder of STRAIGHT, INC. and friend of George Bush.
Contact Mel Riddile
Please write to Mel Riddile and demand that he speak out against the ongoing abuse of teens in programs modeled after STRAIGHT, INC.!
Dr. Mel Riddile, Principal
3330 King Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22302
Email: mel.riddile@acps.k12.va.us
Ursus:
Fornits' own Kathy Moya weighs in on WTOP 103.5 FM Radio Talkback:
(See also this story on Kathy's blog.)
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Well the "Experts" have to tell the truth before they expect students to be honest.
Comment by Kathy Moya @ 11:00am - Sat Dec 6th, 2008
In this article Mel Riddile represents himself dishonestly while commenting on an article about students' dishonesty (rather ironic, isn't it?)
Mel presents himself in this article as "Riddle, who for four decades was a high school teacher and principal in northern Virginia..."
Mel Riddile has absolutely NOT been a high school teacher and principal in northern virginia for the last four decades. When Mel states his "expert qualifications" in public he seems to conveniently forget about the decade from 1982 through he early to mid1990's, when he was an executive director in one of the most controversial adolescent programs in the country which eventually had to shut down due to being found guilty of illegally holding clients as prisoners, as well as being extremely abusive to its clients. Mel Riddile worked in both the Northern Virginia and St. Petersburg, Florida locations.
Before going back to education, he went to work in Florida working in a business that was completely unrelated. (his actual consecutive experience is about half what he states and is at least a decade short of the total time he claims to have served as an educator)
It appears to me that the adults who work in education should be practicing honesty before expecting complete honesty from their charges.
Anonymous:
The pot is calling the kettle black. That's a new one!
Ursus:
Another comment re. Malcolm Gauld's breaking the embargo on that study: Hyde School does follow what the Character Counts! Coalition does.
Some points to ponder, all color emphasis mine:
• One of the people on the Advisory Council of the Character Counts Coalition is Thomas Lickona. From Thomas Lickona's bio:
Dr. Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he has done award-winning work in teacher education and currently directs the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (Respect and Responsibility). He has also been a visiting professor at Boston and Harvard Universities.
A past president of the Association for Moral Education, Dr. Lickona serves on the Board of Directors of the Character Education Partnership and the advisory councils of Character Counts Coalition and Medical Institute for Sexual Health.[/list]
• Thomas Lickona also has ties to Boston University's Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character. One of the three reviewers for Laura and Malcolm Gauld's The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have (2002) is Kevin Ryan, Ph.D. Professor and Director Emeritus, The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character. A small number of the books put out by this organization mention Hyde School, Joe Gauld and/or his books, in fact, Joe's Character First: The Hyde School Difference is on the CAEC Character Ed Reading List.
• Former Hyde School teacher Tom Stoup is hired as principal for the Carrollwood Day School in St. Petersburg, Florida in May, 2005.
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--- Quote from: "St. Petersburg Times Article" ---Tom Stoup, 54, has been lead adviser at the Palmer Trinity School in Miami for the past four years. He worked at Hyde School, a well-known private boarding school in Connecticut, for more than a decade.
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--- Quote ---Head of school Mary Kanter said Stoup stood out in the candidate pool because of his strong understanding of independent schools. He also has a background in character education, which Carrollwood Day emphasizes.
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--- Quote ---Carrollwood Day will serve as a prototype high school for character education researchers Thomas Lickona and Matt Davidson. It will implement the Smart and Good High Schools program the researchers have determined help people to lead productive lives.
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• From Malcolm's blog in August, 2007:
Hyde Symposium Notes #2
8/6/2007
We were also treated to an excellent presentation by Matt Davidson and Kathy Fisher of IEE, the Institute for Excellence and Ethics. Matt has worked for many years with Thomas Lickona, author of the seminal Educating for Character (1993), at The Center for the 4th & 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) at SUNY-Cortland. Matt and Tom have recently written a book called Smart & Good High Schools where they feature the best practices of the scores of schools they have visited in recent years. I'm proud to say that Hyde's work figures prominently in Smart & Good High Schools...[/list]
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