tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post5111977059746397548..comments2024-02-27T10:23:30.029+01:00Comments on Conductor: Black and whiteSusie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-62630863813273516922011-02-23T01:18:34.149+01:002011-02-23T01:18:34.149+01:00Just a quick comment:
When I moved to the United S...Just a quick comment:<br />When I moved to the United States in 1997, I was shocked to learn that we were able to call our CE Center a school. At that time in California, programs that provided services to at least to six (6) children, were qualified to - legally - use the word school in their name and program description. The law may be different in each state regarding this, so please make sure to check...Judit Rothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-37297789186777891862011-02-23T00:15:50.606+01:002011-02-23T00:15:50.606+01:00My general advice to people now is not to believe ...My general advice to people now is not to believe a thing that they read about Conductive Education unless they have checked and cross-checked it, and then run it through a personal plausibility test (like 'Would I really believe such stuff in any other context?').<br /><br />Just this afternoon I was watching a pleasant lady and her teenage daughter being interviewed about their experience of Conductive Education, on an American TV news show. Very nicely they did too. <br /><br />But this was part of North American Conductive Education Awareness Week, so the interview just had to end with a bit of social policy – comparative social policy at that:<br /><br />...people in Germany, in France, in England, they are referred by their governements to the International Pető Institute, and in the United States nobody knows about it.<br /><br />http://www.irishcentral.com/video/?videoTitle=Video:+Conductive+Education+Day&clipSynID=2232024 <br /><br />Let me assure anyone who reads this posting, in the United States or anywhere else, that none of these governments has ever referred anyone to the (at one time International) Pető Institute. Nor, as far as I am aware, has the government of any other country. <br /><br />For anyone with authority to do something for CE in the United States, such a statement would fail an immediate personal plausibility test. It is patently not true, because there are no mechanisms, political, financial or administrative, whereby such a thing could ever happen in any developed Western democracy. <br /><br />Think about it. You know that it could not be so.<br /><br />If people in authority hear or read read such patent misinformation about CE, they may then also dismiss anything alse that they hear about it. <br /><br />It is a cruelty to let parents be surrounded by such a misfounded belief, and for this sort of thing to go out as part of a national awareness campaign, it is a serious and counterproductive tactical error.<br /><br />The family was great, good on them. They deserve better, so does CE.<br /><br />Andrew.Andrewhttp://www.conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-36676761632885915722011-02-22T23:52:13.583+01:002011-02-22T23:52:13.583+01:00I don't know. My general advice to people now ...I don't know. My general advice to people now is not to believe a thing that they read about Conductive Education unless they have checked and cross-checked it, and then run it through a personal plausibility test (like 'Would I really believe such stuff in any other context?').<br /><br />Just this afternoon I was watching a pleasant lady and her teenage daughter being interviewed yesterday about thier experience of Conductive Education, on an American TV news show. Very nicely they did too. <br /><br />But this was part of North American Conductive Education Awareness Week, so the interview just had to end with a bit of social policy – comparative social policy at that:<br /><br />...people in Germany, in France, in England, they are referred by by their governements to the International Pető Institute, and in the United States nobody knows about it.<br /><br />http://www.irishcentral.com/video/?videoTitle=Video:+Conductive+Education+Day&clipSynID=2232024 <br /><br />Let me assure anyone who reads this posting, in the United States or anywhere else, that none of these governments has ever referred anyone to the (at one time International) Pető Institute. Nor, as far as I am aware, has the government of any other country. For anyone with authority to do anything for CE in the United States, such a statement fails an immediate pesonal plausibility test. It is patently not true, because there are no mechanisms, political, financial or administartive, whereby such a thing could ever happen in any developed Western democracy. <br /><br />And if people in authority hear or read read such patent misinformation about CE, they may then also dismiss anything alse that they hear about it. So in other circumstances would you.<br /><br />It is cruel to let parents be surrounded by such misfounded belief and, for this sort of thing to go out as part of a national awareeness campaign, it is a serious and counterproductive tactical error.<br /><br />The family was great, good on them. They deserves better, so does CE.<br /><br />Andrew.Andrewhttp://www.conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.com