Posted on 11/24/2014 8:50:23 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Plague Journal (Children of the Last Days)Paperback– March 1, 2003 by Michael D. O'Brien
In this book, the author spins “a story" about a newspaper editor who "is uncooperative" with the educational authorities, is quickly declared a child abuser, becomes a fugitive, witnesses the extra-judicial killing of a young Vietnamese man who assists him, his life generally falling apart.
Either the common patterns of provocation and over-reaction seen in the news are a bizarre coincidence, or a protocol for dealing with uncooperative parents has been developed and distributed widely in training institutes for educational administrators.
What is needed is a civil corps, equivalent to neutral Arbitrators, to go with parents any time they have to interact with their former employees—now their masters—at public school facilities.
Parents need to be trained how to get their point across with zero emotion, to carefully note when educational administrators cross the line.
The chief form of leverage is the fact, that our masters are themselves emotionally overwrought by the extremity of their position.
If you don't get angry, they will try to provoke you to it.
THERE. You've Got Them.
In the presence of witnesses, they have engaged in disturbing the peace.
Their offices are not their private domains.
Educational institution offices are in the public domain.
Win at their game.
There is a whole cadre of people who go directly from one ivory tower to another with nary a human interaction in between. If I ruled the world, administrators would be promoted from within rather than being refugees from various cultural studies classes.
Then I found out it was written by a **gasp!** Catholic writer.
Can I, a protestant, read such literature and avoid conversion? Seriously, it looks like a great series. I am looking forward to eventually reading them all.
Or you could home school. Then you don’t have to subject your family to the game.
Another book to order from Amazon.
Expensive. Don’t loan them out to your Kids.
Agreed. That’s why I have a Kindle.
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