beyond scared straight
Article Rebuttal
9/20/2013
Parents of today, it is time for a wake up and for you to demand better from society and its programs, do it the same as you are placing the demand for your child to do and conduct better behavior. Parents need to Stop being that kettle making funny looks and smirks at that pot, in essence parents if you do better so will your children. A child is a creation of the parent, and children may not know how to explain, what they know, but their actions, their behaviors tell the tells of what they have learned. Now what is it? Could it be a scar that did not heal or damage to be undone that is a question for the parents to uncover. You have to uncover why the behavior is there not try to scare that behavior out of the child, because everything that is buried takes more then fear to dig it up. So when a child is sent to a “scared straight” program is it really and truly effective? Can a child truly be “scared straight”? These programs make the claim that fear is the way to set a child straight and the programs surround the child in fear to correct their bad behaviors. Fear to correct bad behaviors, well, that no more than asking us to one-day wake up and change our heritage or the color of our skin, we simply cannot do such great task in one day. In essence to fix a child it cannot be done in this manner. But guess what? This method is being tried and trialed everyday, and that method is “scared straight programs.” They are filling some parents lives and formulating their minds to believe that they work. In this monkey see, monkey do society, do the minds really believe that by a child who sits and witnesses criminals will stray away from crime. Better yet do the minds believe that such an experience will prevent the child from becoming a criminal?
Scare straight programs are sweeping the nation and they are growing fast. The question for these programs are not “why are they so popular?” instead the question
9/20/2013
Parents of today, it is time for a wake up and for you to demand better from society and its programs, do it the same as you are placing the demand for your child to do and conduct better behavior. Parents need to Stop being that kettle making funny looks and smirks at that pot, in essence parents if you do better so will your children. A child is a creation of the parent, and children may not know how to explain, what they know, but their actions, their behaviors tell the tells of what they have learned. Now what is it? Could it be a scar that did not heal or damage to be undone that is a question for the parents to uncover. You have to uncover why the behavior is there not try to scare that behavior out of the child, because everything that is buried takes more then fear to dig it up. So when a child is sent to a “scared straight” program is it really and truly effective? Can a child truly be “scared straight”? These programs make the claim that fear is the way to set a child straight and the programs surround the child in fear to correct their bad behaviors. Fear to correct bad behaviors, well, that no more than asking us to one-day wake up and change our heritage or the color of our skin, we simply cannot do such great task in one day. In essence to fix a child it cannot be done in this manner. But guess what? This method is being tried and trialed everyday, and that method is “scared straight programs.” They are filling some parents lives and formulating their minds to believe that they work. In this monkey see, monkey do society, do the minds really believe that by a child who sits and witnesses criminals will stray away from crime. Better yet do the minds believe that such an experience will prevent the child from becoming a criminal?
Scare straight programs are sweeping the nation and they are growing fast. The question for these programs are not “why are they so popular?” instead the question