Audacity to october on behalf of immigrants. And we prosecuted him. You described one just now, that is not an isolated incident. You know that old addage, sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me, i categorically reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How a
Attorney and a police officer, you get bad guys, you put them this jail. You know, im telling you, ive done a lot of hate crimes cases and i know todays bullies are often tomorrows civil rights defendants. If we simply wait for that train wreck to occur and prosecute, thats going to be like trying to cure cancer by building more hospitals. We cant do it that way. Weve got to get into prevention mode. Weve got to figure out strategies to prevent, weve got to empower School Districts, weve got to empower parents, weve got to empower bystanders. When my daughter was bullied in 7th grade, her friends saw it, but they were paralyzed. They didnt know what to do and they did nothing. I dont begrudge thipl for that, they are wonderful kids, but they didnt have the tools to do anything about it. So we work on those issues and we work on those and our local School District was remarkable in their reaction. But in the work that we have done, ruslyn and i across the country, we have seen too many
Quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. We want to learn from you. We are in this together and i want to say thank you because the mos
Federal government. Tom perez, assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. She was also nominated by president obama to serve in her role as assistant secretary of education for civil rights and she was confirmed by the senate in may of 2009. As assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnies duncans primary advisor. Before she joined the department of education she was Vice President of the Education Trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of Education Trust west in oakland. In these positions she advocated for Public School students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. She served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. She was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this
Quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. We want to learn from you. We are in this together and i want to say thank you because the mos