* Forwarded (from: CLIB-EDU) by Lazarus Long using timEd 1.01.
* Originally from Lazarus Long (350:2/100.1) to All.
* Original dated: Oct 11 '95, 22:58
Could Someone Please Post this on Wtchhnt? I am having trouble get my mail up 
there.
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               School Board delays "Guided Imagery" teaching
                 Reported in the St. Catharines Standard
                       St. Catharines, Ontario
"Parents won a partial victory at a school board meeting at the Lincoln 
County School Board offices as the School Board voted to delay, until further 
study, the planned implementation of Guided Imagery teaching.
Parents asked for a ban but the board rejected that and moved to have a 
committee consisting of parents and educators develop acceptable guidelines.
Guided Imagery encourages students, under the guidance of a teacher, to use 
visualisation to study problems, recall memories and create new ideas."
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While some parents voiced fears that Anti-Christian beliefs could be 
implanted using this technique and some feared the potential for Satanic 
abuse, my concern is with the potential for misuse and misinterpretations by 
the teachers involved. Knowing the close working relationship between the 
School Board and the local Family and Children's Services, there exists the 
potential for false claims of abuse through the careless interpretation of 
memories and the quite possible implanting of memories.
Right now, teachers are required to report the slightest suspicion of abuse 
to the Family and Children's Services. In view of the rising number of cases 
where abuse has been disproven after supposedly coming to light through 
recalled memories, I find this possibility alarming.
Curiously, the board rejected a proposal to allow a psychologist to monitor 
the program or to have input into the committee. It will instead, rely on the 
knowledge that teachers have acquired at workshops.
Being intelligent is not a felony
But most societies evaluate it
as being at least a misdemeanour
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