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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (19621)	7/30/2001 12:58:05 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It is a difficult concept for preadolescent kids to sort out. On the one hand we want them to feel the safety of having adults in charge of defining, monitoring, and policing the limits of behavior. This helps them in establishing a sound platform of societal values and principles of living. When standards of decency are promoted and modeled as the effective mode of operation by adults, they will generally be adopted by the upcoming generation. On the other hand when some students receive protected or favored status and adult roles are given to these students and/or these same students test the limits, we set a very fragile foundation for all children. If the adults in charge are hooked on some political agenda, they may be supporting some children to think they have the right to carry on unfairly overbearing interactions with other children and even the adults in the environment. This sets up an environment where people grow up with a distrust of authority even among the persons who "benefit" by these advantages. Where as, we once labeled these kids "spoiled rich kids," we now have broadly expanded these benefits/problems to include kids from various areas of protected status. The most confusing part comes when one of the protected kids or teacher's pets starts to bully in passive agressive ways.