Monday, June 30, 2014

St. Paul Tackles Unruly Schools

This was a main twin-cities headline  in the regional section of the 6-29-2014 Star Tribune paper.

There are many causes and many answers for getting kids under control and middle school kids are the worst and most trying for parents and authority figures to deal with.

Whatever they try will improve things, but educational bureaucrats do not understand teenage children and do not have a clue as to how to pacify and civilize them. What educators do the most--turn each child into a groupist, nonindividuating institutional zombie--is what makes them misbehave the most. Where a joiner is a young citizen prepared to take up his dependent role in the growing nanny state, he is going to be selfless. That translates into zero self-esteem. Those who despise themselves act out to vent their anger and bad feelings, and fighting and acting out are very efficient ways socially to communicate pain.

If middle school youngsters had 10 years of individuation training under their belt, he self-esteem issue would have long since been cured, and happy children are not very unruly.

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