Sandra Dodd

Blaming Hermione!?



Very international. American psychologist speaking in Australia
giving British examples:



"Professor Garbarino told a parenting conference this week in
Adelaide that research dating back 40 years had proved a link between
child exposure to TV violence and increased physical aggression. But
while girls were initially found to be "immune" to the "contagious"
effect of TV violence, researchers had seen a significant shift since
the 1980s. "That immunity had disappeared," he said."


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40 years. HMMMMM.... What else has happened in the past 40 years?
Compulsory education, up to the late teens.

I don't think that's being looked at by ANYone.



A few weeks ago on the local news here (Albuquerque), a spokesman for
the Albuquerque Public schools was saying yes, there was a lot of
graffiti at the schools lately, but there was also more in the city
itself, and teens were emulating the adult behavior they saw outside
of school.



WHAT!? #1, who says the graffiti in the public non-school places
wasn't also done by kids? And if those kids had real jobs instead of
being made to do homework and go to sleep early so they could go to
school by government edict again in the morning, they might be too
busy or satisfied to want to steal spray paint and mess something up.



Sandra





The quote at the top was from here:

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19264916-5001022,00.html

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