Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: [OT?] educazione al giorno d'oggi: The Last Resort

http://education.guardian.co.uk/classroomviolence/story/0,12388,987932,00.html
TITOLO : The Last Resort
"When you have a teenager on the rampage, who are you going to turn
to? In America, parents send their troubled offspring to Jamaica's
Tranquility Bay - a 'behaviour-modification centre' which charges
$40,000 a year to 'cure' them."
Alcuni estratti:
"Students are moved around the property in silence by guards in single
file, 3ft apart - a complicated operation, because girls and boys must
be kept segregated at all times, forbidden to look at one another."
"The first most teenagers hear of Tranquility is therefore when they
are woken from their beds at home at 4am by guards, who place them in
a van, handcuffed if necessary, drive them to an airport and fly them
to Jamaica. The child will not be allowed to speak to his or her
parents for up to six months, or see them for up to a year."
"Students are judged ready to leave only when they have demonstrated a
sincere belief that they deserved to be sent here, and that the
programme has, in fact, saved their life."
"On level 1, students are forbidden to speak, stand up, sit down or
move without permission. When they have earnt enough points to reach
level 2, they may speak without permission; on level 3, they are
granted a (staff-monitored) phone call home. Levels 4, 5 and 6 enjoy
significantly higher status."
" In a crucial 1998 test case, a Californian court ruled that a parent
had the legal right to send a child to Tranquility. Parental choice
was sacrosanct."
Chiusura del giornalista:
"A song by Usher is playing, and the words burn through the hard
Caribbean heat. 'You remind me of a girl that I once knew. See her
face whenever I look at you.' The Texan's niece pauses her dancing. As
she stoops to take a drink of water, I catch her face, and think she
looks like the saddest girl in the world."
neurino


http://education.guardian.co.uk/classroomviolence/story/0,12388,987932,00.html
Beh, pensandoci bene, anche la lobotomia ha i suoi pregi :-(((
Pero' non capisco perche' il sistema non gli piacesse quando ad
applicarlo erano i sovietici.
-- 
Jolly

Il Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:45:16 +0100, "Jolly1a8"
<CANTAl...@SUONAtin.it.invalid> ha scritto:
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io ci vedo una differenza: mentre per un apparato come quello
sovietico, sistematicamente questo veniva applicato per sostentare lo
stato, quindi imposto dall'alto, adesso é dovuto allo sfaldamento
dello stato stesso.
nel secondo capitolo si dice che gli "utenti" sono mandati da famiglie
disastrate, dove é normale che i figli abbiano problemi, i quali peró
il genitore non sa, non puó, non ha voglia di affrontare.
certo, invece che formare ragazzi con spirito critico, li si "educa" a
credere in certi valori che sono quelli propagandati da una certa
parte politica(e conoscendo un pó la societá americana abbastanza
diffusi comunque).
mah..mi stupisce , e molto, che non si possa fare nulla in termini
legislativi. non si puó aspettare che siano i ragazzi stessi a
lamentarsi perché per loro é questione di sopravvivenza, ma dovrebbe
essere lo Stato stesso a tutelarli. Cosa che peró non fa, visto che,
come dice il giornalista, c'é una voragine legislativa che permette il
profitto sulla loro povera pelle.
brrrr....rabbrividisco se ci penso....
neurino