Is this normal behavior? <off topic>

[Tom Cole]

Dear List,

I asked my fourth grade teacher/wife about what happens when one of her
"cherubs" disrupts the class. She said that it's referred to as "acting
out" and that if the acting out continues (does not respond to ignoring,
teacher correction or peer pressure), the child is conveyed to the
principal.

Stan Kroeker writes:
>>...
The twelve articles in the Mission Statement and Code of Ethics relate
primarily to our interaction with our clients but perhaps they might
encourage us (PTG members) to settle our differences as mature, rational
adults.<<

Would that this were an ideal world, my friend. I submit that this is an
impossibility when one of us is unwilling, or unable, to act in an adult
manner. Our Bylaws lack the authority of a school principal. Thus, on
this list, peer pressure and ignoring are our only resorts in the matter
of undesirable behavior. 

Since peer pressure is, to some, just another form of attention
(attention is attention), peer pressure has no corrective effect on them
but, instead, supplies the needed attention.

That leaves us with ignoring. A person may say the most vile things to
get attention but that vileness only reflects on him and does not harm
others. I vote for ignoring.

Thanks for your "attention". I feel better now.

Tom
-- 
Thomas A. Cole RPT
Santa Cruz, CA