Supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecu
And in my comments at the beginning i spoke of the wonderful experience and having 3,000 opportunities yesterday see bully the movie. I spoke of all of the administrators seeing bully when they came back from summer break and develop their plans on their campuses here, so i would like to go deeper and talk about a couple of things and before that i appreciate what rosylyn and the Previous Panel said about the term bullying and run the risk of it meaning something generic and meaningless and the word of the day, so lets talk about what it is. Its assault. Sometimes its aggravated assault. Its kidnapping. Its coercion of human rights. Its stalking. These are different pictures when you think about it in those terms. Thats what bullying is so in San Francisco unified we say we have a zero tolerance for bullying or any kind of activity like bullying i want to decouple zero tolerance from the notion of having punitive measures because we dont believe in that. We mean that every classroom, e
Foundation and launch the student Advisory Board and i think we need to get that training kicked in really fast and thats a point well taken, and i appreciate lee you showing that clip because it illustrates an important distinction that we need to make. We dont want to send the message to america that bullying is normative; that bullying is normal, and that clip illustrated that the school is sending that message, and there is a difference, an important distinction between the school sort of embodying and sending the message to the kids that bullying is just a part of growing up and believing that bullying in our school is normative because it simply isnt. The data shows bullying is going down and that is not a popular thing to say these days. Bullying is a very important social problem that we need to fix, but it is not an epidemic and its not on the rise and neither is Cyber Bullying and the top scholars in the country and in social science and psychology that saying that, so thats
Parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecutor and it really offends our sensibility for someone to be taking advantage of to be harmed or abused and we want there to be justice for
To social networking or facebook and this is a sued all of this the the volume of bullying is going to rise in proportion with i think the actual drop in occurrences so to balance that and be aware of that i think is important. I totally agree, and thats really to rosylyns point about this being a very, very important moment and we need to did it right. Just on the subject of suicide the Surgeon General came out this week and there was a usa today story and suicide and especially among veterans right now and suicide is complex and we cannot send the message there is a lot of fear out there right now that bullying leads to suicide and suicide is complex and 90 of people who take their lives have Mental Health problems and there are rarely a single factor and that is something your film has been criticized for. Sure. And some of the kids had other factors involved besides bullying and i think we have to be really careful. We need to talk about suicide. Its a Public Health problem. Its ou