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To: Poet who wrote (9013)	4/15/2002 12:48:30 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 21057

"And can you see anything positive coming from comparing one's social group against another? I can." Years ago when I was doing educational research I came to this conclusion. Example: You take a child who is a below average reader and compare him to the norm. The results are that he is in the 15 or 20% group. You throw all kinds of programs and instruction at him and he makes progress over time all the way to the fourtieth percentile (close enough to hang with the average kids). He is still seen by himself and others as below the norm. He eventually loses all incentive to keep trying. Likewise when you compare siblings or other close associates against some norm it is almost always destructive, as it involves jealousies. On the other hand you can set the criterian for growth as so much increased vocab and word attack or speed or something and help him accomplish the criterian. As he sees himself getting closer and closer or surpassing his criterian based goal his confidence and motivation grow; and his little face begins to glow. Anything can be compared to a criterian for improvement. You find little disagreement until you associate an individual or group with the negative and an opposing group as the norm and the positive. "And can you see anything positive coming from comparing one's social group against another? I can." There are short term gains that can be accomplished by pitting groups against each other as long as the goal of the two groups is to move toward a superordinate criterian that they both recognize. When the condition lasts longer than a short term situation we get something like the irresolvable disfunction of the repubs and the dems during the last year of the clinton administration. Everyone was pretty much wallowing and hoping they could survive to the next administration. Just imagine what it would have been like if we didn't have automatic new administrations every four to eight years. I was not crazy about LBJ but the smartest thing he ever did was decline to run for a second term of presidency.

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