Integral Grade School

I was in Walmart the other night in the craft section and behind me there was a man and woman and a little boy. I heard the little boy say, "I'm not gonna 'cuz I'm angry at you." Then the uncomfortable silence came in which I could tell that the man was a boyfriend and not the Father and the boy was maintaining the boundary of the family. The Mother was rendered speechless, so he made it more clear, "I'm angry." he said, proudly, but very calmly. And then she found her words, "Well, that's silly because you have no reason to be."

Now, in my current state of agoraphobia, I find it very distressing to leave my house and go out and about because I'm too sensitive to people and I'm easily overwhelmed. But this made me not ever want to leave the house again. And I haven't since. I wanted to crack her head on the curb like an egg and make an omelette (sp?) with her brains and in order to avoid doing that, I had to dissociate.

[sigh]

I gotta long way to go. At any rate, 'point being: only changing the schools will change nothing because Parents are morons and will undo anything that the schools do right. We might get a better return on our dollar if we figure out how to delay the childbearing years until we're 30 and extend it until we're 60. Putting money into childhood development in the schools is only fattening them for the slaughter. What we need is parenthood development in the workplace. And yes, I think they should be graded and required to graduate.

One of the things I was thinking of as I listened to this vid, which I had not seen yet until today, was of having several tracks for kids to go through according to the value sets of the Parents. Quit fighting the lower vMeme demands and give them what they want, within a larger program of integrated tracks. Each of the dominant vMemes will be represented so that the highest developmental level of the Parents will be posited as the height of learning once the child is at the level of consent.

Then the child will be allowed to finish out in whatever level he/she wants. (Some of those drawings will be unrealistic, but only for a while. Alot more very young people are understanding Integral now.) The age for entering into trade schools will begin at 16 - two years of which will be state funded - instead of 18 because 16 year olds are now required to support themselves and even contribute financially in an economy that is not friendly to them. And those trade schools will include general education classes at developmental levels of the students own choosing.

One of the things which will have to change drastically is we will have to start teaching on the interiors. Each family will choose from a menu of interiors for their children, but interiors must be taught. And they will be the highest and best interiors for each vMeme.

Integrated in with this will be the development of the Parents - which can be located either at home, at work or in the schools alongside of their kids. They too will be taught interiors. If their personal relationships and family relationships offer resistance to the teaching, then those relationships will be worked into the education.

Only Parents expressing the Amber vMeme will be worried about indoctrination and brainwashing because that is a shadow projection of that they themselves are doing. Fine! Give the Parents all the power to choose what will be taught, but they must choose something and the menu can be created with the most ideal offerings from that level of development. They won't be disappointed because folks from IU will design the curriculum using the most advanced Skillful Means.

Get it?

If someone had stepped in and noticed that my Mother was introducing the cruelty of natural law and self-sufficiency at too young an age and offered to help her with that and with the stresses of being a single parent of an only child, my life would have been totally different.

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I was at an NA meeting last year when I heard a young woman speak about the stresses she was having with her kids at the moment. The problem was her own - of course. The kids were just being kids. I saw the solution clearly. So I wrote a simple diagram and description of how two totally different interior experiences can lead to similar behavior in different siblings on a post-it note and gave it to her after she was done speaking and she was massively grateful! She didn't get that kind of help from her folks. She didn't get it in school. She didn't get it from any of the other government programs available to her (and probably required of her in order to even have her kids). She got it in a tiny note that was discretely passed to her in a meeting for Drug Addicts.

The information is available, and so are people able to teach it. But we have to find them and build a support structure capable of delivering it to where it is needed.