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Aggressive children voting with their feet?

And what will the council do when they realise they have paid out many thousands of pounds for crap that did not actually make a difference? More to the point, what will the tax-payers do to the council?
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
Are regular massage therapists less expensive?
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Where is the evidence that massaging any part of the body reduces aggression? But there are two issues here:

1. Shelling out GBP90k to a bunch of woo artists.

2. Planting in young minds the idea that reflexology is a bona fide therapy. Putting these kids in contact with such people is criminal.
 
Zep said:
And what will the council do when they realise they have paid out many thousands of pounds for crap that did not actually make a difference? More to the point, what will the tax-payers do to the council?
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The local tax payers will have little say in the matter. Most of the decisions are made by the unelected council staff. Councillors usually have far less time and experience to combat the idiocies they have to rubber stamp. Politics at a local level are even more like 'Yes, Minister' than at government level. Even so, this level of woo is breathtaking.
 
Wow, sure whatever.

Bunch of crap.

Now as someone who has worked with 'emotionaly disabled' students (and still do to a lesser extenet). The main tools are
1. Staying calm no matter what the student does.
2. Removing them from the situation and giving them a chance to reassert control.
3. Planned ignoring (something teachers loathe)
4. Reinforcing positive behaviors.

Now in one of my buildings (and in many in my district) there are students who will get into trouble just because the want the physical comfort of restraint (sounds strange doesn't it). So what they do instead is have a bean bag sandwish (two large bean bag chairs), the student lies on one with other on top and a staff member applies moderate pressure to the top bag. This provides the body stimulation that the student was seeking other than the restraint.

So I would say there are probably better ways to meet the students needs, over stimulation is a huge issue, removing the student for five minutes might be more effective. (Except no body wants to pay for staff.) Outlawing alcohol would really help, due to FAS. (FAS fetal alcohol syndrome is a real problem, outlawing wouldn't work unfortunately)
 
Asolepius said:
Where is the evidence that massaging any part of the body reduces aggression?
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From the way you phrased the OP I thought you thought it might be effective, though for different reasons to the practitioners at bud umbrella.

...I'm sure that attention to just about any part of the body would positively affect these adolescent attention-seekers...
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But there are two issues here:

1. Shelling out GBP90k to a bunch of woo artists.
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I agree that is inappropriate use of tax revenue.

2. Planting in young minds the idea that reflexology is a bona fide therapy. Putting these kids in contact with such people is criminal.
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I think these kids may have had far more troubling ideas put in their heads long before the reflexologists get to them. I can't see how reflexology, even if considered as just relaxing massage, is going to significantly help them in the long run.
 
Ivor, I always enjoy your challenging posts! I was just guessing that giving the kids any kind of attention might have some effect, but the acid test as ever is - where is the evidence? I suspect that encouraging people to believe the unbelievable has a corrosive effect on society, but I don't have much evidence for that - other than disasters like going to war in Iraq (where the evidence was not verified). In the final analysis, what's the point? There is no reason whatever to believe that reflexology will help in these cases, there is considerable cost, and the possibility of harm to critical thinking. Open and shut case.
 
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