I'm glad you got some resolution of this. From what I can tell,
school hasn't fundamentally changed since the invention of the
modern school system, by Horace Mann in the 1850s. Education
reform, never is. The rite of passage; I don't see a need to
institutionalize a rite of passage of feeling left out. That's
going to happen *anyway* in the natural course of friendships,
alas. Schools needn't play a role in it at all. (social reform
in schools; I could write a book on "what's wrong/how-to-fix"...
progressively/radically but practical. but then I'd have to
enter politics; and I don't like ruffling big feathers *sigh* )
You handled it perfectly Amy. My fingers are crossed that all
works out well (actually I take it back; school *does* need to
play a role; in the fixing. Conflict resolution among friends
can't always be left to their own devices; parents can help of
course but kids spent most of their social time (where the
conflicts are) -*in school* - yet, we still hold to an
antiquated notion that kids are blank slates for the writing of
objective knowledge upon. But humans are *social creatures* -
mirror neurons + all that; right from the first sight of
mother's face all the way through life.... and the nearly
complete neglect of that within the system through which the
future generation that *will* be in control of things to come,
cripples the future... ok ok... I gotta stop. I feel a rant
coming on )
