I agree, and I can imagine something along the lines of the 'emotional growth cirruculm' used by BM facilities being pushed into the school system.
Kids loosing gym time or some other 'unimportant' class in order to attend Raps, Reals, Propheets, TASKS seminars, etc. etc.
It's just a matter of time:
http://www.iecafoundation.org/news/news.htm#workshopNon-Compliant Adolescents Workshop
Over sixty public school counselors attended the five-hour workshop with IECA* member consultants and school admission professionals presented by nationally acclaimed author and psychologist, Dr. Ross Greene. The cost of the workshop, underwritten by the Foundation, was waived for public school counselors. Additionally, the public school counselors were given breakfast, lunch, parking and Dr. Greene's book, The Explosive Child. Many of the counselors had doubts about whether the workshop would give them any strategies to take back to their schools, however, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive with 98% of the evaluations giving the workshop a very good rating.
IECA- Independent Educational Consultants Assoc.
Student and Family Call-In Session
The call-in session, publicized on television, in local high schools and at a college fair in St. Louis for weeks leading up May 1, was held at St. Louis' NBC affiliate, KSDK. For seven hours, 28 IECA members and Foundation Boardmembers utilized the television station's phone back to answer questions from over 300 students and parents. Questions ranged from how to get financial aid for college to options for teens at risk. Questions were also accepted via e-mail and were posted and captured on the IECA web site.
St. Louis Community Counseling Day had several positive outcomes:
?Public school counselors have a caseload of approximately 500 students per counselor. The professional development the St. Louis area counselors received impacted both the counselor and the hundreds of students these counselors assist each year.
? Counseling professionals from diverse backgrounds and working environments shared and exchanged valuable information about today's students.
? Students with limited accessibility to their counselor received one-on-one personal advice.
? A relationship between independent counselors and the St. Louis Public School System was formed, allowing for future exchanges.
The IECA Foundation hopes to replicate this program in Scottsdale, Arizona prior to the IECA Fall Conference in November 2003.
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And we certainly have seen Resource Realizations taregeting schools. These BM facilities could well be proving grounds for these austere, experimental techniques that will eventually find their way into public schools.
Homeschooling and private school are still a luxury that most families can't afford. As long as we have public education, they should stick to the business of education, which they are doing a miserable job with, and stay out of the business of diagnosing and providing 'therapy'.
If they would focus as much attention on changing their teaching methods and expectations, they might find they have litte to no problems with students.
Ex: My daughter told me yesterday that she'd been called in for a conference. My 10 yr old grandson was 'at risk' of failing the infamous diagnostic test given every two years in this district- I think she called it TASP. Doesn't matter that he making As and Bs. The diagnostic testing expects kids to know 50% of the material they will be exposed to in the current school year- PRIOR to being exposed to it. Insanity at its best!! She finally took my advice and told the teacher she didn't give a flying f about their diagnostic test. That she wasn't going to put herself or her son through the anxiety and distress they'd been through 2 years ago, when she paid a private consultant/tutor $500 to assess my grandson, only to fine out that he was right on course.
At risk of WHAT? Not knowing shit he hasn't been exposed to yet. Peak Intellegence. :roll:
[ This Message was edited by: Deborah on 2004-10-03 11:30 ]