| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | the value of education (OT-rant, long) |
| Date: | Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:51:12 -0400 |
>Schools with large numbers of students are more likely to have incidents of
>violence, but that's because there is a large number of students. :) More
No, I'm not talking raw incidnets. I'm talking per capita incidents.
There is something called crowding psychosis that has been purposfully
left unstudied by the AMA and related groups. Basically, pack too many
people into an area, and they become unhinged. Increase the strees level
and prior antagonism, and that threshhold number starts to drop.
Also, look at the recent high-school shootings- they are largely during
the prom season. Unfortunately, most of these nuts shoot themselves, so
they can't be interrogated later on.
If you are also looking for border line paranoia (I won't deny that what
I'm about to say looks it), look at what is before state and/or federal
legislators and the courts when some maggot kills a number of people and
then himself. There is a pattern, but is one that has some really, really
nasty implications, particularly when you know something about the level of
"impulse direction and control" technology. <brrrr>
>violence factor, per capita. It may or may not be a coincidence that big
>schools tend towards the megaclass syndrome that the high student-teacher
I won't arguee that. It may be that the big schools need to higher more
teachers, and it isn't crowding psychosis at all, simply because expanding
schools and highering more teachers (to do that, you need to raise the pay
though) is feasible, although it would be expensive. (Still cheaper than
prisons.)
CyberRaven
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