Alphas and Aspies should be educated together!

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johnpipe108
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25 Dec 2007, 10:59 pm

I'm going to propose something different, thinking outside the box.

I'm going to suggest that the very people who target us in the school bully department are actually the very people who should become our natural allies.

The human genome can be divided into two statistical sub-groups, the worker-merchant group, and the warrior-aspie group (I'm going to stick to contemporary labels for now, to avoid confusion by un-familiar terminology that I often like to use).

The natural symbiotic relationship of the first group needs no explanation, as these two have identical genetic aggressiveness characteristic, and most children who will go into business education seem to discover this without too much outside counseling. They will go on to hire the rest of their group, so this group doesn't have the biggest problem with the educational system (there is plenty not right with PS, but ...)

The second major group, this is where there is all the trouble. This group is us and the warrior kids.

That the second group should become symbiotic sounds crazy at first, "Hey, screwball! Don't you know those are the troublemakers that always beat up on us? What do you mean, send us to school with THEM? "

I would, indeed, think outside the conventional box, and send the Alpha-aggressives to the same school with us.

It would be a martial school. Both would take martial arts in PE, the aggressives for obvious reasons as they need the discipline in order to achieve self-control and be an asset instead of a potential threat to society. Aspies can get 'Zen' benefits from the martial arts (it's no accident that asian temples (extreme aspie society, asian style) teach their monks martial arts for the spiritual benefits).

The academic classes would be separate, as aspies are 6 years ahead mentally, they would move fast academically, but also they would soon be the teacher-aides, and would be able to help the less intellectual Alpha's with their lessons. The Alpha's could help the aspies with the martial arts.

Both would be educated to honor and respect each other, and realize that they are the natural allies. Both would have a basis of activity by which they could relate and learn to appreciate each other, the martial arts PE is part of this basis for mutual respect.

Alpha's are warrior children; they are the natural leaders and warriors who lead and protect society. The aspie is the natural ally to the Alpha because the leaders of state need honest advisers who can tell the leader the truth, and analyze the data and advise the leaders on what they need to know to be able to make the right decisions.

In China in the 1930's and 1940's, Chang Kai Shek, dictator of China, surrounded himself with yes-men. He never got the truth of what was going on, and the Communists had an easy time running him out of town. He did not have aspie advisers.

These children have to be taught these things, and the result would be a win-win situation.

Aspies have the mental head-start, the built-in predeliction for honesty and loyalty, and the ability to think in unusual ways, ways that are worth their weight in gold to a smart NT warrior leader. And, our well known penchant for loyalty and dependability is something warrior types understand.

How would you like to have gone to a school where the strong were your best friends and protectors? That's a POSITIVE imagination, and I'd welcome any reply that can actually suggest any better system than what I suggest or what we already have.


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25 Dec 2007, 11:35 pm

At first glance the only thing I can see wrong with that is in the martial arts/PE portion of the class is that all of the "alphas" would primarilly socialise with eachother, and the "aspies" would do the same thing, possibly to an even greater extent due to nervousness of meeting new people, due to the seperation during accedemics. But at the same time there are very few "aspies" who actually enjoy being in class with loud, hyper-active kids who are also far less book-smart than they are (to put it as politely as possible).

I forgot about the teacher aide part. That's a good idea, but it's possible that the "alphas" would become angry with the "aspies" who wouldn't see or understand why the others were getting frustrated and not getting it. At the same time when I was in school I helped out kids all the time, even ones I didn't usually talk to, and as long as the "aspies" were taught to take it really slow (perhaps learned patience through teaching very young children martial arts. That's how I learned patience) they would learn a lot about interaction, I think.

I do agree that the "warrior" kids could (and do!) make good allies. Quite frankly it never hurts to be on the good side of someone bigger/tougher/more popular than you, it can just be really hard to get there.

Anyways, it's a good idea, I'm not sure how well it would play out in real life. There are kinks to work out in it, but I assumed it's a fairly new idea and the flaws have simply yet to be thought of. Just remember, for things to work they have to be simple, and if this ever becomes real that would be rad.



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25 Dec 2007, 11:51 pm

My 9 year old son attended drama sessions every Thursday afternoon with a mixed groups of Aspie's and NT's. It was held in the Special Ed Classroom and run by the Special Ed teacher.

The NT children chosen to participate were 'highly socially skilled' (eg the popular kids).

Brilliant strategy! They acknowledged my sons in the playground and stuck up for them in bus lines.

Helen



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26 Dec 2007, 12:03 am

The only NTs who ever liked me were the shy, geeky types. The aggressive, alpha-ish bully types despised me, particularly for my weakness. It was not until I got into metal at the age of 19 that they even acknowledged my existence (and then, only the metalhead ones did and they rely on me to get underground black metal and to 'hex' enemies because they know I'm Pagan.)


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26 Dec 2007, 1:06 am

I'm not sure if the "teacher-aide" idea would work. I don't know about other Aspies, but I can't teach because I conceptualize everything differently than do other people. I can't teach someone my patterns of thought, but without them my explanations on any academic subject would be worthless.


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26 Dec 2007, 7:49 am

Well, I was in the Alpha stream at school (they actually called it that) with all the other bright kids. There were 3 streams, this was the top one.

It didn't manage to make me and the others integrate (it was an academic school, no 'enriched curriculum' whatsoever). But I think there was at least respect from the other kids that I was brighter than most of them. That held most of the bullies off most of the time.

Even so, school was an utterly crap experience. If I could choose an education for myself it would have been Waldorf/Montessori. Anything but mainstream.