{"id":10445,"date":"2011-12-04T20:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/12\/04\/this-transition-can-kill-you\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T20:59:31","slug":"this-transition-can-kill-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/04\/this-transition-can-kill-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This transition can kill you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video has been going around.  If you are not emotionally reasonably well shored up at the moment, don&#8217;t even think about watching it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdkNn3Ei-Lg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most societies that practice extensive warfare, have a fair amount of violence, etc. often owing to the concentration of resources and vulnerability of those resources and a fair dose of patriarchy also have strong age grading of some kind.  Sometimes transitions from one grade to another involve significant and serious dangers, and not everyone survives those dangers. Americans and many others have &#8220;grades&#8221; in school that serve as age grades, but they can be fairly flexible.  But some of these can be very stark.  I&#8217;ve observed that the transition out of Middle School is one of them, and this kid is experiencing this transition in a fairly dramatic way, but he is not at all unusual.  He&#8217;s just letting you know about it.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure that we&#8217;ve developed the best possible way of doing things.  I think we need to look at the elementary-middle school\/junior high school-high school age grading critically and re-evaluate.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video has been going around. If you are not emotionally reasonably well shored up at the moment, don&#8217;t even think about watching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2It","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}