Friday, February 22, 2008

Humanistic vs. Behaviorist part 2

First I will talk about the approach that we use now, The humanistic approach. In the school systems someone decided to use this approach towards educating kids. It states that each and every person strives to be the best person they can be that we as humans by nature try to be good, (a bunch of crap). So that’s the thinking behind the school systems and I guess the main reason to the problems that we have. The first problem that I have with it is that everyone by nature is not good, (carjackers, sex offenders, terrorist, gang members etc…) and also the punishments don’t fit the crime or they don’t set an example to other kids who might want to try it. They way they encounter the problem is maybe putting brighter colors in school, more metal detectors, and increased police presence. I just think that it does very little to curb the problem. I know because when I went to school the officers or metal detectors would not stop then students at my school from fighting or shooting each other they would just do it after school or at a certain part of the campus. Besides they won’t even let the teachers try stop a student even if someone has a weapon. If a teacher even touches a student they will be fired and some ignorant mother( whose to blame, for their dumb kid anyway) will be on TV ready to sue the school board for hurting their baby when they were trying to kill half the kids at the school. We have been trying this approach for years and it has yet to work.

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