[pabianice]

Your taxes at work. Recently, the FAA required all employees to attend the same type of outrage. When some employees refused, they were fired. But you don't care, do you?

[nothingnew]

I care. I thank G-D I went to school in the fifties, and my twin daughters have been out of school for years.

Sick people running the Ed System.

FMCDH!

[gitmo]

The public sniveling and sniffling ended with a "final exercise -- hugging as many people as possible in two minutes, to the theme from 'Rocky.'" One child, showing uncommon wisdom, dubbed the dolorous debacle a "psycho cry-fest."

When I was in high school, I would have loved to hug certain girls. I'll bet there was a lot of that going on.

Don't you love the PSYCHO CRY FEST description?

[3catsanadog]

Tomorrow these same kiddies will be back to bullying and snubbing their peers. I'd like to see if things have changed in this school and everyone is now warm and fuzzy and not a mean thought passes through their darling heads.

[WFTR]

One child, showing uncommon wisdom, dubbed the dolorous debacle a "psycho cry-fest."

We occasionally have similar garbage at work under the auspices of the diversity program. I call them exercises in "guided whining." What the whole situation really represents is a new kind of secular religion being foisted upon us. There's nothing that they tell kids that wasn't covered just as well under Christ's command to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Add a good dosage of other Bible verses such as I Corinthians 13, and you have a working prescription for most of the schools' problems. I agree that mistreating other students is wrong. It was wrong when I went to school, and it is wrong today. It should be treated as wrong and punished, but this kind of psycho garbage needs to end.

WFTR
Bill

[ikka]

I am not the first to say it, but

Public education is child abuse

[galt-jw]

yeah, but kids are usually pretty cynical. a lot of em might know this is nonsense, but a good excuse to get out of class. we really need vouchers.

[Hildy]

I can't believe they were fired. You can't fire a Government employee for anything.

[timm22]

That's really creepy. It sounds a lot like the self-criticism sessions in North Korea that I've read about.

[Arthur McGowan]

I have no patience with "conservatives" who minimize the evil of teasing and bullying. But the answer to it is to abolish the public and private schools that arbitrarily segregate children by age (and thus, automatically, separate siblings from one another), and create, also inevitably, jungles. Homeschooling is the natural, normal way for children to learn. All other modes of education should be resorted to only in dire emergencies, and for as short a time as possible. The worst environment for a child is a mob of other people's children, isolated from their parents and siblings.

[avenir]

My niece actually went to "Tranquility Bay" and, although I cannot stand these types of programs, it didn't ruin her. I guess my brother felt she was heading in the wrong direction and needed a break (in Jamaica!) to "work through her issues".

Part of the bargain was mandatory attendance in these seminars pushed by Resource Realizations. The parents also had to attend their own seminar(s). I did research and discovered that, basically, this seminar is a descendant of est, Werner Erhard's "Erhard Seminar Training". They will tell you no, it is not from est but from Lifespring...but guess where Lifespring came from?

They are called LGAT'S, LARGE GROUP AWARENESS TRAINING Seminars, and like est their goal is somehow to get the attendee to get "it". "It" in est was undefined ("In life, understanding is the booby prize"—Erhard). In the others it can range from personal improvement or, as in the school scenario above, "sensitivity".

The methods they use to get people to get "it" have been called brainwashing by some, or simple manipulation of people in groups in small, controlled spaces, by a domineering seminar leader (Erhard used to verbally abuse his audience—"You are miserable because you are all a bunch of a#$@^%*s!" When this, among other things, eventually brought negative reviews he handed the program over to his brother, est was re-branded as The Landmark Forum, and Erhard disappeared for years).

My brother tried and tried to get me to go to the seminars, but this relentless promotion by attendees is just another part of the whole scam. Like Gilcrease said "While Challenge Day is a critical first step, a one-day learning experience only goes so far,".

Read that: "While getting a bunch of students to fall for our controversial first seminar is a good first step, this will only go just so far to create the kind of sustaining wealth and power over young minds we are truly seeking."

[2Jedismom]

Homeschool ping!

[EdReform]

Another "seminar" (Breaking Down the Walls):

Crossing the Line crosses the line, some parents say

[BibChr]

they have no place in taxpayer-funded schools whose primary function is supposed to be filling students' heads - not emptying their lachrymal ducts

Ah yes, there's where the columnist goes astray.

Or so I was told by a school official when our two oldest were in public school. I had voiced a similar thought, that we sent our kids to school for education in the basics, not for therapy. That was the province of the family and our church. Or so I thought.

I was informed in condescending tones that this was an "older model" approach, and that now schools felt that "anything that affected the children in any way was their concern."

A polite version of my wife and my thought was "the heck it is," and not long after, we began homeschooling — a decision we have never, ever regretted.

To say the least. (Articles such as this increase our non-regret factor.)

Dan

[bvw]

Recently, the FAA required all employees to attend the same type of outrage. When some employees refused, they were fired.

When and where? I have a hard time imagining what an FAA employee would be fired for, it just does not seem to happen.

[bvw]

Hey, and on a related note:

Does any Freeper know anything about the USDA-located "Graduate School"?

[neutrino]

Once upon a time, the Communists in China were famous for having self-criticism sessions - and all were required to participate. It was a tool for control, and for building up information on the subjects.

Aren't we fortunate that we're special, and such things could never happen to us?

[TLBSHOW]

How do you know what they are really teaching in your school?

This is sick stuff. Ok everyone cry.

[TLBSHOW]

If you can find an old Dick and Jane book the cost is about $500.00 each.

[John O]

After much thought I've come to believe that I'd really enjoy attending one of these.

I can see it now.....

"Jane I'm sorry I misheld the truth from you. I'll be more truthful from now on. Let me say that you dress like a slut and I'm sure your slept your way to your current position. If I had a dog that moved like you I'd have it wormed. You know doc, honesty is a much better policy. I feel great.

let me do another!!!!

Joe, I'm sorry I haven't been entirely truthful with you. As a human being you deserve nothing less than my respect and honesty. You have publicly proclaimed that you are afflicted with a deadly disease called homosexuality. You are 13 to 40 times more likely to be a child molester than any normal person. You are going to die 20 to 30 years younger than any normal person. Your chosen behavior has marked you as a poor risk for insurance companies and anyone seeking to maintain good health. I see your chosen disease as such a serious threat to me, my family and my way of life that if you come near me or my family I will be forced to kill you in self defense.

I feel much better now. Do I get to hug the chick with the big breasts now?"

Pscho cry-fests. They're good for what ails ya

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