Finding meaningful interventions.

According to Marlene Snyder of Clemson University's Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, finding out that bullying is hardwired into the brain is an opportunity to "find meaningful interventions". Is she kidding me! This research has dicovered that when people who bully other people, or who are behaving in an antisocial way, do what they do a part of their brain lights up which proves that they are experiencing pleasure out of it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081107-bully-brain.html


Not exactly a surprise to those that have been bullied or on the receiving end of the bad behaviour. At some level we all knew it was because this particular maladjusted personality was just getting a rise out of it. About a year ago I posted on a well known forum that bullying was hard wired into the brain, needless to say a couple of people disagreed with me, and if it is true that bullying isn't hard wired into the brain then maybe some of us are just waiting for the bully to 'develop a different mind set'. Hoping that something akin to humanity and integrity will kick in at some point. Dream on baby! Since when have people given up something they enjoy doing until such time as it becomes detrimental to their health, wealth, and well being. You try and get a smoker to give up his cigs or a substance abuser to give up their substance, their comforter, their mothers little helper. It's like trying to push butter up a porcupines arse with a hot needle.

So what interventions then. A cattle prod would be out of the question because the adminstrator is likely to get a rip out of it. Nailing them to a cross would simply make martyrs out of them. Sitting and reasoning with them is going to go a long way towards stopping them isn't it. About as helpful as trying to disuade a teenager from having sex before marriage. What next. Frontal Labotomy. I mean! Come on! how do people get paid good money for this stuff. Don't get it, they are bullies because they want to be. Because they are twisted and cynical and don't share the same values as the rest of us. Get real! Interventions. How about giving them a psych evaluation before you put them into positions of power. Thats your best intervention. Do you think Bernard Madoff is begging forgiveness for his sins. Not likely, apart from maybe lamenting a few years in jail, if it gets that far, after all he is 70. They will probably just give him a good talking to and send him home to die in opulence. Don't imagine him crying for the victims of those gullible people who trusted him. If this research it to believe his is probably getting his biggest hard on for years just imagining the pitiful look on their bewildered features. This kind of sociopathic narcissist understands nothing of other peoples pain and suffering. That your best intervention. To my way of thinking there is little hope for change. The only way of stopping a bully is to avoid them like the plague,

Chronicles from the cat

I have my contacts in my ex place of works. The word on the
grapevine right now is the new enrolment form that they have created
which contains a tick box by the number 15. This being the number of
hours contact with the student that the college should have done
before it qualifies for a certain level of payment. This number
directly contradicts the number of hours staff can do, the
management expects them to finish in which is 12 maximum, and the
targets make that many impossible if you calculate it. Staff are
being told that if they do not tick the box, they will have more than
the allotted 80 candidates per year to make up their financial target.

On a lighter note though. Princess Tippee Toes has been a naughty
girl. Recently a pool car was caught on speed camera, but no one
could identify the driver because procedure for filling in the take
out log were not followed. So TT got the college to pay the fine and
took the three points on her licence. tut tut tut. False
Decloration. Although bunch of us did have a belly laugh when we
recognised that if we all took out a pool car and didn't sign the
book we could have her licence off her in the next few
months.......or better still should we just dob her in.. Votes
please!!!!

Chronicals from the cat

This cunning plan that these supposed Icons of morality and educational standards had devized was a way of downloading money from the Treasurey in return for training the nations workforce and bringing them up to standards that rival those of the European Community, so to give the disunited kingdom a foothold in the global market place for years to come. But behind the scenes something sinister lurked. A covert operation give the name "Milking the cash Cow". This covert operation involved making claims to government from the number of ISQ's (Intermediate standards qualifications) delivered by this educational establishment.
Now for those of you that do not know how and ISQ works here is a brief explanation. An ISQ is assessed in the workplace by an assessor who travels from place to place visiting learners and assessing their ability to do their job within National Occupational Standards laid down by a governing body. The assessor will observe the learner doing their work, will asked them questions relating to their work, and will often ask questions of significant others such as Supervisors and Managers to ensure that the work and attitude of the learner is satisfactory. The learner is also asked to produce pieces of work that demonstrate their abilities. As with all matters pertaining to government and money. The assessing of these qualfications should be closely monitored. Registers of meetings, times and dates have to be compiled. Declarations have to be read and signed and there is a myriad of different tracking devices in place that are designed to prove that the assessor has spent a certain amount of time with the candidate, and has performed certain tasks with them. One of which is supposed to be training. Government, and particularly the government in the disunited kingdom have targets to reach. Such as the targets is ensuring every person working has a level 2 ISQ by the year 2010. These targets can be very demanding, so to grease the wheels and make things slicker the government devizes projects which are oveseen by the COLAS (Council of Learning and Skills). These projects are given special names such as. L4L (Learn for Life) or G8S (Great Skills). They even have advertising campaigns for them on TV, one popular advertisment offers employers the opportunity to train their staff at no charge. This is called Train without Pain. But what may you ask does this have to do with the covert operation "Milking the cash Cow".