Mentoring Programs are the Answer
Some say our educational system is failing? Is it? Or are we just very critical. Indeed there are things which need changing, such as teachers pay, over prescribing behavior drugs, lack of interest in science and math. Yet how bad is it really? Well we also have a gang problem and many teachers feel they are merely babysitters.
What is missing is really good mentoring programs. And so one online think tank took up the subject recently and discussed this issue at length. One of the members stated;
I know that mentor programs for inner-city at-risk youth make a huge difference, so what about something like that for felons or misdemeantants? That is not to say that they get a blank slate and get to work with CEOs, but regular, law-abiding folks who work hard every day? clergy?
Interesting and I agree to a point, however in studying the doers of the world it appears to me that many of the criminals have high rates of body chemicals rushing thru the brain, like an athlete and they are more turned on so to speak, operating at different times at higher optimum levels, thru genetic dispensation [perhaps survival skills to evade saber tooth tigers?]. And some of course has been nurture too of how to channel these chemical flows.
So what I am saying is that a criminal, who ramps up chemical reaction and creates a discharge which is unhealthy in a politically correct world or rules of society thru some sort of outburst or worse a criminal act, is for the most part unable to control his or her genetic displacement, meaning they may actually be more human and better adapted in prior periods to survive.
Also such a person with this chemical rush available to them, would be better suited as a politician or CEO and perhaps not stuck in a job THEY might consider or in their minds believe to be meaningless. And who are we to decide what that might be?
If you are saying that anyone who has been convicted of a misdermeanor or other crime be put into a dead end job, well perhaps you might ask yourself how you would feel if someone else determined that of you? And in suggesting this one could psychologically profile you as a hypocrite or that you think you are better than everyone else? So do you think you are better than everyone else? If so why? State your accomplishments please. Fore you maybe better and if you are, wouldnt that mean you should determine your line of work? And doesnt that then make you a narcissist who might commit a crime?
If we have strong mentoring programs and channel energies into activities and future careers, hobbies and allow children to set goals, we may find all that energy we think is criminal in nature becomes a positive force and involves its self in positive activities? What say you? Consider all this in 2006.
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