The left refuses to feel discomfort: “This person is 90% aligned with my beliefs but neutral/silent/disagree with 10%—they’re cancelled.”
The right refuses to feel discomfort: “My therapist, who never brings up politics, has a small gay pride flag on their door—I stopped going.”
A characteristic of being young is to be highly sensitive to the emotional cadences of one’s environment; to be highly vulnerable to any discord in the surrounding system. Viewed this way, the youth mental health crisis offers a damning assessment of wider societal life.
@JonathanShedler I might be way off base here, but isn’t that still based in the therapeutic alliance given that the essential “knowing” of our clients’ way of showing up in the world will allow for our more effective awareness of transference and counter transference?
@ReadTurnOffNews@GeorgeBrauchler yes, sending emails, standing outside with a sign, letters that no one sees are good when board members are open and receptive to input from teachers input about an issue. but the action taken by members of the board did not give teachers an opportunity to do that.
@GeorgeBrauchler they are also people who work at a job. they are free to quit at anytime if they find a better working environment. i hope we, as parents, help to make dougco an environment where teachers feel supported and not publically shamed by parents.