Bullied. I have been bullied. I know what its like. Its not cool. You need to stop. Telling them your personal story or personal story and making them realize its real makes them want to do something about it. I know i talk a lot. Im sorry. The thing that i would say is get youth involved with some kind of Youth Development organization like one of the best in the world 4h. We do a lot you can tell i love 4h very much. We do a lot with bullying prevention. We do a lot with preventing the bad stuff and promoting good stuff. Our biggest motto to make the best bester. Thats what we do. Thats what we live by. Thats my biggest thing. We have mentor programs. It mentors youth into a better living. Those programs are designed for kids in troubled lives, kids that are being bullied. That is what 4h is all about is making the best better. Getting people from the bad feeling part or im not sure if im looking for the right word. The lowest thing up to a great organization, up to a great feeling.
Engages private and public organizations. This is 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data that we collect and compile at the National Center for Education Statistics. Many of the things i am going to talk about to you today you may be familiar with and certainly working with bullying there are many things you are well aware of from your own observations. I think there is something here for everybody that is going to be some new things that we can talk about. There is a lot of new sources coming out with
I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data that we collect and compile at the National Center for Education Statistics. Many of the things i am going to talk about to you today you may be familiar with and certainly working with bullying there are many things you are well aware of from your own observations. I think there is something here for everybody that is going to be some new things that we can talk about. There is a lot of new sources coming out with bullying data. There are new sources that you can take advantage of that may be usefu
So one of the bills we brought up, there might be some disagreement. The e. P. A. Wants to shut down all development of fossil fuels. They are trying to kill the coal industry and going after natural gas and will go after oil as well. If you look at one area that most people across the country is the keystone xl pipeline. Here you got a proposal from canada, whos a friend of ours. Canada wants to send 800,000 barrels of oil a day to the United States and they would spend 5 billion of private money to build this pipeline and would create according to the Obama Administration would create 40,000 american jobs. People say, wait a minute, we could get almost one Million Barrels a day from canada instead of the middle Eastern Countries and we trade with canada 80 cents on a dollar that we dont have to send billions of dollars and use that money against us and our own troops and get less than 50 cents on the dollar. Why dont you do it . 40,000 american jobs. Those arent my numbers, the presi
We have to come together, federal partners, state and local partners. Public, private partners. Schools and communities across sectors, across states. Look around. Look around you in this room. This is what change looks like. This is what leadership is all about. So, lot me say, we are all in on this partnership. You all have a partner you can count on and we will be working sidebyside with you doing everything we can to help you move the needle for the nations youth, children and families. Thank you very much. [applause. ]. We dont have a teletype for questions but we know we have people in cyber space watching. So we have a question from our social media outlet. 300 folks participating in the summit today. Here is a question from twitter is there any research from a longlasting affects of awareness raising events . Is that only a spike in terms of impact . So awareness raising is certainly part of the pieces of the puzzles when you are thinking about putting together a blame preventi