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Che Gookin:
--- Quote ---Personally I think color coding is okay as long as it serves the purpose of keeping the child safe and not just to humiliate them. If a child is a flight risk, or can do harm to themselves then it would be acceptable so that staff can easily keep an eye on them. I would also say that it would be fine to have different colors for different phases of the program also. Color coding is used internationally as a visual communication tool.
If the kids are humiliated by it then it would be counter productive to any therapy they may be involved in.
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Staff can easily keep an eye on a kid without the color coding. If a group of kids is so large that they have to put a kid in an orange jumper you have not one problem but two.
1) They are humiliating the kid in the name of expediency.
2) The group is to damn large for the staffer to do his/her job of supervising the kids.
Though you keep glossing over the point that putting a kid in an orange jumper is detrimental to their mental health. How about you wear an Orange jumper to work next week and tell us how you felt about it?
TheWho:
--- Quote from: "Che Gookin" ---
--- Quote ---Personally I think color coding is okay as long as it serves the purpose of keeping the child safe and not just to humiliate them. If a child is a flight risk, or can do harm to themselves then it would be acceptable so that staff can easily keep an eye on them. I would also say that it would be fine to have different colors for different phases of the program also. Color coding is used internationally as a visual communication tool.
If the kids are humiliated by it then it would be counter productive to any therapy they may be involved in.
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Staff can easily keep an eye on a kid without the color coding. If a group of kids is so large that they have to put a kid in an orange jumper you have not one problem but two.
1) They are humiliating the kid in the name of expediency.
2) The group is to damn large for the staffer to do his/her job of supervising the kids.
Though you keep glossing over the point that putting a kid in an orange jumper is detrimental to their mental health. How about you wear an Orange jumper to work next week and tell us how you felt about it?
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Again, Mr. Che Gookin I need to disagree. The color coding is needed as a visual tool and not intended to humiliate. I believe someone said that “all” the kids are placed into orange when they first arrive. The bright orange may have been chosen so that if the child runs away they may be easly spotted or identified by local authorities.
If I was under someone elses care then I would have to go by their rules, but I am not I am an adult and can choose to wear what ever I chose just like yourself. I am sure a nurse can keep an eye on 10 patients without having the visual color code system, but it is put in place as another layer of precaution. If my hospital were to identify me with a purple wrist band to signify I was diabetic, I wouldn’t take it as they were trying to humiliate me in front of others who would be wearing yellow or brown for peanut allergy or DNR.
It seems you and others here are trying to twist and redefine specific elements of the program as being abusive, when it isn’t. It is intended to keep the children safe which is just the opposite.
psy:
Oh please. These places are more than a little transparent about breaking kids down in order to "build them up". How, precisely, do you think the breaking down is done? Humiliation is a powerful tool, as is stripping a person of everything that they connect to as an individual in order to gradually strip them of individuality entirely. Is it possible the orange jumpsuits/tshirts/uniforms/whatever have multiple purposes?
TheWho:
--- Quote from: "psy" ---Oh please. These places are more than a little transparent about breaking kids down in order to "build them up". How, precisely, do you think the breaking down is done? Humiliation is a powerful tool, as is stripping a person of everything that they connect to as an individual in order to gradually strip them of individuality entirely. Is it possible the orange jumpsuits/tshirts/uniforms/whatever have multiple purposes?
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I am sure there are dual purposes. The colors or suits that they have the flight risk kids and kids who break the rules wear are probably not the popular ones or as comfortable as an added incentive (or break them down as you put it) for the kids to follow the rules so they don’t have to wear them. But there seems to be such a big push to label this as a humiliation tool or as abuse. I just don’t see it. My thinking is alot of posters here believe this because they don’t know any better and this is the first time a lot of these kids have had to conform to strict rules.
If a salesman approached HR and said he was being humiliated and abused because he has been working for the company for 15 years and is still in a small cubicle while all the people he started with have corner and window offices, would he have a case to sue? Should the company give him a corner office to stop his peers from snickering every time they passed his small cubicle and end his humiliation? Why are all his co-workers being rewarded with larger offices and not him? He shows up everyday for work just like they do.
I really beleive the color of the t-shirts is a stretch for crying abuse.
psy:
--- Quote from: "Guest" ---I really beleive the color of the t-shirts is a stretch for crying abuse.
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Perhaps on it's own, but in context with everything else, it can paint a different picture. Just stick around and keep an open mind.
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