Re: Stockholm Syndrome
Peggy
Ren wrote:
And, what kept hitting me in the face when I spent time at the school was how
very different our goals were. I believed that respect for the individual
would lead to the best possible outcome, it became increasingly clear to me
that the schools goals hardly considered any one "individual" human at all.
Their goals seemed to be making the most amount of widgets they could out of
what they considered pretty substandard base materials. If a few widgets got
lost or damaged on the way down the assembly line, well, that's the breaks.
Peggy
> My "aha" moment was after I had volunteered on the PDC (program deliveryExactly!
> council) the PTA and in the classroom all year. It just hit me one day that
> if all this immense amount of time and energy I was spending at a school and
> on lots of other kids could be given to just my son, what an amazing thing
> that would be.
And, what kept hitting me in the face when I spent time at the school was how
very different our goals were. I believed that respect for the individual
would lead to the best possible outcome, it became increasingly clear to me
that the schools goals hardly considered any one "individual" human at all.
Their goals seemed to be making the most amount of widgets they could out of
what they considered pretty substandard base materials. If a few widgets got
lost or damaged on the way down the assembly line, well, that's the breaks.
Peggy