This fit into the queue of things i did and should be doing, tlau our web site, focus of expertise and other places, indicate what are those programs that work that help students understand the issue, help the adults, we have 330,000 teachers, as you say, cheryl, how do we get to the 330,000 teachers, the training 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 distric
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 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
With some leadership from the community or a Faith Organization or a parent i think it will actualize. The sunnyvale safety and Police Department have been really spectacular and have spearheaded this with officer holly lawrence. She has the program, its in place, we call it train the trainer where we train other Police Officers to take it back to their counties. Its a spectacular program and is available now. So we dont have to wait. A good thing about the digital age is were going to take some of the best practices, were going to make it available. You get School Officials to think how does this fit into the queue of things i did and should be doing, tlau our web site, focus of expertise and other places, indicate what are those programs that work that help students understand the issue, help the adults, we have 330,000 teachers, as you say, cheryl, how do we get to the 330,000 teachers, the training for this. But with digital sharing of best practices i think we can get there. As ro
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 closet for too long. I think high profile nationally now as well and we have super stars involved, lady gaga, myself, but you got to reach young people. Usually peers are the best, i think, in terms of c
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 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