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Under the proposal, home-schooled children with behavioral and emotional disabilities would have to have individualized education plans approved by the special education director of the local public school district. Allowing for the continued home-schooling of such children would be predicated on the individualized plans and "adequate progress" documented in mandatory annual reports.
Why?
In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.
Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.
Psychology Today
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How did psychologists from Berkeley define "liberal" in 1989?
Psychologists from Berkley did not 'define' liberals or conservatives...they defined themselves.
Um, you read your post, right?
Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults.
"They" = Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block
1. How did they know the political preferences of the adult subjects, and 2. how did they determine that these preferences were "liberal" or "conservative."