Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how it handle it and really talk to your children about it can be fun, it can be dangerous, these new toys that we have. Wow. All right, id like to introduce the members of our panel today, rob is here, rob, could you come on up, rob neighbor, please join us. Thank you so much for being here. applause . Assembly tom ammiano is here. applause . And our state school chief tom torlichman is here and he is making his way to the podium. Thank you all for being here. Rob, i want to start with you. You are
Children do not pass before their parents. We began to see that the school, the high school in los gatos, led by a very strong, great principled people, brought in an organization to help and after all i should preface in 2009 was a brutal year for los gatos high school, they lost two other students shortly before jill died. The school and principal brought in a Counseling Group called cassie, counseling and support services for youth, embedded counseling. And their job was to change the culture, very much what weve heard today, change the culture to get rid of the stigma of Mental Health and understanding that a lot of these kids feel anxiety and stress, they need someone to talk to. They just dont have the perspective that an adult has. One of the things that struck me was the boys were interviewed, they knew they were in trouble, but i didnt hear them say im sorry, i shouldnt have sent the picture on. The three boys were arrested and they complied with a vuft stis program and part o
As the appalling silence of good people that, as you recall, were dr. Kings words from the birmingham jail. Ive seen that all the time, people who are i think in their core good people who dont know what to do who tend to send the paradigm that boys will be boys and girls will be girls and were trying to shift that paradigm. And thats why in okahenapen we have an accountability document that calls for. inaudible with the idea, like i said, there is not a state going that we dont have a parent that has a dead child. We are dragging everybody to the party because at what point do we say, we cant even say, kids are dying. Hundreds and hundreds of children have died when this should be the best times of their life and our most sensitive, compassionate, empathetic, our children are not surviving their childhood. One thing ive learned in my line of work, and again i want to thank you for your remarks and your doggedness, civil rights is about persistence. You exude persistence. I have attemp
Scariest things ive ever had to do. Thats when it hit me, oh, my god, were in trouble. Later we heard from a Police Officer little pieces of information that this was actually happened and he had interviewed several kids at the high school who were in jills class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how
High school who were in jills class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how it handle it and really talk to your children about it can be fun, it can be dangerous, these new toys that we have. Wow. All right, id like to introduce the members of our panel today, rob is here, rob, could you come on up, ro