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Antigen:
In practice, they get the PC kids to play a trustee type role, with special priviledges like being allowed to roam campus without a pass and to escort other students not in the PC program around campus during class time (to the office, etc) They encourage the kids to get other kids to confide in them and then to turn over information to the PC counselors when they get something they feel they can't handle. IE, cultivating snitches.

It creeped me out at the time, before I found out who was behind it.
It takes a village idiot to believe that a family needs instruction from the government to raise a child.
-- Anonymous homeschooler

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Anonymous:
..or in other words, Positive Peer Culture.

Deborah:
It all depends on one's definition of "Positive".
I'm guessing we have different definitions.

In case you missed the link above, below is but one fine example of what I consider to be "positive" and an educational option that is badly needed in our society. As long as teens have limited options, all manner of control- drugs, incarceration, BM, punishment/torture, reverse peer pressure....will be "necessary". I'm sure those who defend it have a vested interest in the status quo remaining the same. It's a very profitable system for many.
Deborah

There is a technical high school in Turner's Falls, in western Massachusetts, which has a cooking program (among a wide variety of training options) that teaches kids how to buy, prepare and serve lunch on weekdays to whoever comes in to eat - and also offers a display of bakery goods to be purchased - in a restaurant setting, and at a moderate price. It is very popular. I have driven over there for lunch on a number of occasions. It's a very good experience. Except for the ones cooking and serving the food, the kids are free at lunchtime and just get to hang out with each other. Around Christmastime, many of them have tables set up in the hallways at which they sell various goods made in their classes.
 
I can only characterize the whole feeling tone of this big bunch of kids as downright unAmerican - at least if compared with most high school groups under the same circumstances. No teachers monitoring, no kids teasing each other, no excessive flirting or harassing, no frenetic dashing about, no smoking in sheltered corners outside the building - just kids strolling about in small groups, chatting with each other or selling their products, those from the greenhousing group offering sturdy plants - and being very knowledgeable about their management - along the corridor, some studying in a sunny corner - well, you get the picture. These kids love what they're doing, and they are good at what they do!

Antigen:
Ok, now add a few adults who's jobs are to, say, run restaurants, nurseries and other businesses with mentoring and teaching younger folk as a sideline instead of the other way around and what have you got? A town. An odd one these days, where the kids are not segregated from normal business and social activities. But, in days gone by, it would be just your typical small American town.


I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
* - ~ Galt's Creed ~ - *
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Anonymous:
No tv., limited computer access, no processed, pre packaged or frozen foods, microwaves.   Board games, card games...reverse progress!  Where is this place???  I wanna sign up!

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