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
For this. But with digital sharing of best practices i think we can get there. As rob was mentioning, there are great programs that emerge from often tragedies but they bring the community together. The movie bullying has a couple of those instances aware of and san mateos respect everyone 24 7 has people looking at how do we respect each other as human beings and understand our differences and embrace those and be a community of care. I think a very practical thing, too, is that there somehow be established an adult that kids will trust or young people will trust. When we started out with lgbt sensitivity that was one of the things because a push back from 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 did
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 only person who calls me robert is my mom and this was not my mom. She went on to say she was thinking of committing suicide and she went on you tube and found some videos that some of jills friend had made about jill. And she thought, if somebody loves jill that much, 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 ot
All these panelists really bring a great wealth of experience and wisdom to what on the one hand is actually a really complicated issue and on the other hand at its very core is somewhat simple. Whether its online or offline, bullying and harassment or as the teens that we encounter at Common Sense Media often say, drama, its about power. As you heard the boy on the video say, im the big dog. Who has it, who wants it and who wants to keep it. I realize this is an incredibly simple definition so i will leave it to our panel to pick it apart and to delve deeper. Each of our panelists will have the opportunity to give a brief introduction of who they are and their organizations and after weve done the rounds i will pose a series of questions to eefrp of they will and then you will all have the opportunity to interact with them yourselves so we can have a really dynamic conversation. The one thing i will say before introducing our first panelists is we are going to try to keep all these in
Participate responsibly in our Digital World which we all have heard brings its own complications. She oversees the departments education staff, working in the 3 largest districts in the country, new york, denver, maine, texas, florida, and the bay area. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rebecca randell. Great, thank you, melinda. Im going to ask you all to come up now. As they get seated ill say a few words. All these panelists really bring a great wealth of experience and wisdom to what on the one hand is actually a really complicated issue and on the other hand at its very core is somewhat simple. Whether its online or offline, bullying and harassment or as the teens that we encounter at Common Sense Media often say, drama, its about power. As you heard the boy on the video say, im the big dog. Who has it, who wants it and who wants to keep it. I realize this is an incredibly simple definition so i will leave it to our panel to pick it apart and to delve deeper. Each of our panel