The government must get its head around how much the necessary intervention levels will cost. I think we can take it that Rudakubana doesn’t experience empathy, and I bet his parents, those who taught him, those he was referred to in Prevent, and the police could have told you as much. We need a Prevent organisation for children who are violent, and I’m not talking here about playground scuffles.
I rarely agreed with her politics, but that doesn’t mean Megan Kelly doesn’t have really interesting guests, FBI Profiler Jim Clementis below being one of them.
Usually, it’s luck and or money that alters the outcomes. For example, if you are rich and have an uncontrollable child, you send them to a public (private) school where they’ll be reined in enough to appreciate that staying inside the law offers a much better life. Public schools in the UK, I think, are the rich parent’s equivalent of putting your child into care. However, what can you do if you aren’t rich – particularly if you have a child like Rudakubana? Such children must be identified early, and meaningful positive interventions must be implemented.
None of this would be for the Rudakubanas but to prevent families ever again having to learn that their young daughters – Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, and Bebe King in this case – have been butchered. Empathy should appear on report cards – praise for those who demonstrate it positively, helping their classmates and red flags for its absence. It’s not labeling a child as they develop at different rates; it’s just commenting on what might need work on or watching. I know someone low on the empathy scale who public school turned around and has a successful and happy life as a result.
I’m not a huge fan of public schools. They just pass on privilege, but they have complete buy-in from parents. Perhaps public schools should have to take the most difficult children to justify their charitable status.
Jim Clemente said, “Genetics loads the gun, personality, and psychology aim it, and your experiences pull the trigger.”
We must work with those personalities, giving them positive choices and experiences, resulting in better outcomes.
Please don’t give me some people are just evil. I’ve always thought that line of argument is a cop-out by people who want someone to judge, someone to loathe instead of looking for solutions.
#EarlyIntervention #PreventRudakubana
