Antiimmigrant messages coming out in the media. In new york, you probably remember this, some of you, in 2008 High School Students were going out on a weekly basis beating up immigrants that they thought were supposedly undocumented immigrants. The students all knew about this but the adults didnt. It results in a hate crime, a murder. A couple things i wanted to bring up. What does it take to unseat bias . First of all, we have to look at all the places that people are getting that violence, those attitudes, and have dialogue about it. Just like amina said, we need to be getting to know each other. Some researchers back in the 40s came up with 4 important things to address prejudice. The first is getting it know each other, talking about it, getting it out in the open. The second is equal status, were not just feeling sorry for those poor little whatevers that are difrplt than us, but we are all equal. The third one is working together and i think about the giants, were all for the te
Maybe somebody loves me. Im always touched by that. Some day bullying will be something of the past. I also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals with the kind of issues rob and your family have dealt with in terms of using the internet safely and being aware of the harm you can do to yourself and to others by the way digital news can get around. Assemblyman. Thank you very much. Im ve
Some day bullying will be something of the past. I also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals with the kind of issues rob and your family have dealt with in terms of using the internet safely and being aware of the harm you can do to yourself and to others by the way digital news can get around. Assemblyman. Thank you very much. Im very, very heartened. This was an issue thats been in
The school district, well, thats going to cost money. But we found teachers, we started with elementary and went up to middle who would volunteer for that, straight or gay. Then we put the word out, if you are having these kind of problems, we saw some very graphic instances that even the sensitized adults didnt understand, they didnt realize it. A lot of it in those days, im a teacher and i love my profession, a lot of it was in the faculty rooms, too. You learn from kids. Its all laid out there for you and thats another thing if you have the sensitized adult then you dont spend any money, that adult is there are there. We have about 3 minutes left for each of you to make a final comment. Mr. Neighbors, starting with you. Just like to share with you, my wife and i are frequently asked, are you against the internet and everything digital. No, theres a lot of good out there. After jills death i had to take a month off of work, went back to work and the first day back at work my wife cal
Graphic instances that even the sensitized adults didnt understand, they didnt realize it. A lot of it in those days, im a teacher and i love my profession, a lot of it was in the faculty rooms, too. You learn from kids. Its all laid out there for you and thats another thing if you have the sensitized adult then you dont spend any money, that adult is there are there. We have about 3 minutes left for each of you to make a final comment. Mr. Neighbors, starting with you. Just like to share with you, my wife and i are frequently asked, are you against the internet and everything digital. No, theres a lot of good out there. After jills death i had to take a month off of work, went back to work and the first day back at work my wife calls me, we just got a phone message from a tailor asking we return the phone call. So i called the louisiana number that was left and a little young voice answered the phone. I asked, is this tailor . A little young voice said, is this robert neighbor . The o