[Dianna]

ONE TIME IN THEIR LIVES WHEN ****ONE**** TEACHER SAID SOMETHING AFFIRMING that demonstrated the teacher really cared.

Alrighty! So let's insist the teachers find one positive thing to say about each student, once per week. And leave the pseudo-psycho BS out.

[Quix]

There appear to be a lot of other trauma fed youth for whom one affirming comment is grossly insufficient--for unclear reasons.

Which part(s) do you deem "pseudo-psycho BS?"

What is so threatening to you about increasing communication? What is so awful about someone coming in and facilitating people applying more of the Golden Rule in the school relationships and getting students to speak it, act such out? Obviously horribly subversive stuff, that.