Child Abuse/Equality&Fairness

[Debbie]

Debbie cracks open the door to the freshly cleaned catalogue office 
and peers inside.  A skeleton staff is on hand, perusing the latest 
review list and marking off their selections in the margins.  

"I'm not ready for this yet," mutters Debbie, but before she can 
close the door again, Captain Carolyn swoops down, with Manager!
Ginger at her heels, and pulls Debbie into the office.

"What'll it be for you this time?  How about a little Child Abuse?" 
she cackles evilly.  "Ginger, please show Debbie to her new 
quarters."

Debbie attempts to escape through the cracked door, but Carolyn and 
Ginger each grab one of her arms and they toss Debbie into the 
cupboard under the stairs to Kneasy's tower.  It is pitch black 
inside, and she can hear the spiders scurrying about, but as she 
gets used to the darkness she realizes to her surprise that the 
interior of the cupboard has been transfigured into the Gaunt shack.

"OK, I'll do it," Debbie shouts from inside the cupboard.  "But only 
if I can extend my leave for a couple more weeks.  I just finished 
my reread, and I'm thousands of posts behind on the lists."

"Request granted," barks Carolyn, and pulls Debbie out of the 
cupboard.   She shakes off a couple of spiders as she heads for the 
door of the catalogue office, but stops under the threshold and 
hands Carolyn a memo she's been holding.  "Did you ever see my 
Equality and Fairness report?  I finished this before HBP, but I 
don't think these changes have been made."

Debbie

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "Debbie" <elfundeb at c...> 
wrote:
> > Carolyn:
> 
> > So, what this boils down to is splitting 1.1.5 between either 
> 1.1.7.1 
> > (Child abuse/mistreatment) - that's for the bullying stuff, or 
> 3.2.6 
> > (Racism & bigotry) - for the discrimination stuff?
> 
> Yes, except that I'd put the bullying stuff in a separate 
subcategory 
> (primarily because I've already reviewed those posts, but have 
been 
> avoiding Child abuse like the plague).  When the forest has been 
> properly thinned we can decide whether to merge them.  
> 
> I'm now finished with Equality and Fairness.  Not having heard any 
> objections, I've done the following:
> 
> 1.1.5 Equality and Fairness (was 115, will be 0)
> I've moved the 10-15 posts that needed recoding, and the category 
> (1.1.5.) can be eliminated.
> 
> 1.1.5.1 Inequality, Bullying and Discrimination (was 216, now 77)
> I've removed all of the discrimination posts, plus assorted 
> repetition and irrelevancies.  A few were recoded to 3.2.6. (Class 
> System, Racism and Bigotry) but most of the posts were already 
coded 
> there.  This leaves 77 bullying posts.  As I mentioned above, I 
> recommend that they be moved into their own subset under Parenting 
> and Child Development, rather than being merged into Child 
> abuse/Mistreatment for now.
> 
> > I have actually said several times that 3.2.6 poses some 
problems 
> in 
> > overlap, so I am glad to see this happen. However... should we 
now 
> > move 3.2.6 up into metathemes, because it is such a major theme?
> > 
> > DOUG - Oy! I know you are working on sections 3.1. - 3.2.6, have 
> you 
> > got this far yet, what do you think?
> 
> I agree with moving 3.2.6 Class System, Racism and Bigotry to 
> Metathemes.  It could be plonked right into the gap left by the 
> elimination of Equality and Fairness.  However, I'd tweak the 
title 
> slightly to say Class System, Bigotry and Prejudice.  
> 
> As it's the last subcategory under 3.2, and it contains 406 posts 
> (including 9 posts I moved here from 1.1.5. and 1.1.5.1.), I'd be 
> willing to bet that he hasn't gotten to it yet.