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

To: Neocon who wrote (46853)	5/8/2002 12:03:16 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Ex-Teacher input: There is a general rule of thumb about social behavior that educational psychologists apply when addressing classroom management issues. If a behavior is unacceptable, the teacher should ask them selves whether the behavior is merely inapropriate for the setting or whether it appears to have an aggressive/disruptive quality. If it is merely inapropriate (nose picking) we are advised to ignore the behavior (when ever possible) while encouraging the apropriate behavior at an opportune time. For example if Johnny's slouching is a problem we could look to another part of the room and notice how nice and straight Mary is sitting in her desk. Typically you will see, out of the corner of your eye some straighening on Johnny's part. We can address personal hygene and habits when no picking is happening. If you were to draw attention to nose picking while Johnny is hard at it, there is the risk that the picker would be reinforced by the attention (peer giggling or what ever). This could move the picking behavior to the category of "disruptive," which is much harder to remedy. The recommendation for the other category of behavior (disruptive/aggressive), is that it never be ignored. This type of behavior has motive. Motivated behavior is emotionally needs based and must find resolution at some level of satisfaction or the behavior is likely to escalate or find some more extreme venue of expression. How or where the escalation will express itself is not predictable. CH has expressed his motive to maintain a relationship with Poet in spite of the facts that his efforts have been largely ignored, and that his behavior has been addressed by numerous interested parties. His activity has been isolated to this thread for many months so that every other boxing ring participant could move on to another thread to carry on normal thread socialization. The salient level of attention to this issue has been raised on several occassions. It has been brought to the SI admin, thread participants have engaged in serious peace making and negotiation exercises, thread reassignment and moderation has been employed. To the exasperation of all CH is still pursuing a motive that all other interested parties want resolved. Lacking an additional alternative, I suggest moving to a legal remedy. I am sorry it has to come to this.