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The Best Medicine!
I have identifi ed 37 causes of why a
child could misbehave, better expressed
as having a reaction to causes in their
daily life. In Eugene alone 6,000 school
children are hungry and 700 families are
homeless. That’s a good cause for being
real restless, out of it or not feeling well,
which is translated as misbehaving on a
school level.
In addition to the cause stated, how
about plenty of domestic violence, drugs,
alcohol, hefty air pollution and countless
children with asthma, or a reaction
to medication for our so-called ADD
children? Once the seclusion room school
team of hired professionals look much,
much deeper into a child’s life to recognize
reactions that a child has to deal with, they
will be able to help and heal that child. It
might just take a whole society to look at
itself, instead of fi nger-pointing to our little
ones, a heartless thing to do.
Please call our state representatives to
prohibit HB 2756. We are our children’s
guardian angels.
Jutta Akulina Benner
Eugene
SAFE ROOMS REVISTED
Camas Ridge had taken the door off
their safe room in response to your article
[“Use of Seclusion Rooms Challenged,”
12/20/12]. Some children actually missed
the privacy. Unfortunately they had to
put it back on, but they are open to it.
The behavioral program at this school is
based on a no-touch approach. A no-touch
approach can only be achieved through
having the time to form a relationship with
the child. The program has fi ve employees
who cover the whole school. Posses of
parents could in no way perform this
service. Relationship is essential.
Thanks to the great staff there who give
it their all despite the many insecurities of
working with the school district, such as
layoffs and temporary assignments.
Nancy Young
Eugene
RELOCALIZE ALL
The most important question facing the
human race is how we respond to the in-
terconnected crises of peaked oil, climate
chaos, overpopulation and resource con-
fl icts.
These crises resemble the parable of
the blind men touching an elephant. Each
observer is correctly describing what a part
of the elephant is, but none have a holistic
understanding. Peak oil and climate change
are two facets of ecological overshoot, and
neither can be mitigated without the other.
The global crises of the end of cheap
oil and the start of climate change require
global levels of solutions — we need to
relocalize everywhere.
We are not merely at peak oil, we are at
peak technology, peak money, peak com-
munication and peak everything else. Real
solutions would require us to redirect the
energy, talents, resources of global capi-
talism, the military-industrial complex,
universities, media and other pillars of our
society.
We have enough resources and talent
to shift civilization to create a peaceful
world that might be able to gracefully
cope with the end of concentrated fossil
fuels, or to create a global police state
to control populations as the resources
decline. The “War on Terror” is actually
a long-planned world war to control fi nite
fossil fuels that power civilization.
Understanding why civilization did not
respond to the warnings of resource deple-
tion decades ago is needed if a shift toward
sanity is still possible. These decisions were
not made democratically. Addressing peak
and climate issues would require world
peace instead of peak oil wars.
We are not “addicted” to oil; the mod-
ern world is completely dependent upon
fossil fuels for industrial agriculture sys-
tems, transportation networks and the
growth-based monetary system. Addic-
tions are things you can give up — but oil
runs our civilization.
Mark Robinowitz
Eugene
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