they know they just need to remember it,. . their leadership as a team is compromised so whatever that team is, the football team, the basketball, the student counsel, the peer leaders. if the peer leader doesn t do the right thing and this is my initiative and if you don t do the right thing you don t look like what know what you re doing and that isn t cool and you didn t do your job that well, if we get in these ambassador programs and give them training and rigor and how difficult that moment can be you can transform a school because of the power of kids talking to each other. all right. do we have another question? i appreciate that point you have been making. been, wooing with the board and the foundation and launch the student advisory board and i think we need to get that training kicked in really fast and that s a point well taken, and i appreciate lee you showing that clip because it illustrates an important distinction that we need to make. we don t want t
a school because of the power of kids talking to each other. all right. do we have another question? i appreciate that point you have been making. been, wooing with the board and the foundation and launch the student advisory board and i think we need to get that training kicked in really fast and that s a point well taken, and i appreciate lee you showing that clip because it illustrates an important distinction that we need to make. we don t want to send the message to america that bullying is normative; that bullying is normal, and that clip illustrated that the school is sending that message, and there is a difference, an important distinction between the school sort of embodying and sending the message to the kids that bullying is just a part of growing up and believing that bullying in our school is normative because it simply isn t. the data shows bullying is going down and that is not a popular thing to say these days. bullying is a very important social problem t
our office we devote significant resources to this. just a couple of examples. we have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and it s a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through police department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. we offer it all over santa clara county and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. a second initiative we are working to make happen is something called school link services where there s all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often it s not centralized in the school and so it involves a
training kicked in really fast and that s a point well taken, and i appreciate lee you showing that clip because it illustrates an important distinction that we need to make. we don t want to send the message to america that bullying is normative; that bullying is normal, and that clip illustrated that the school is sending that message, and there is a difference, an important distinction between the school sort of embodying and sending the message to the kids that bullying is just a part of growing up and believing that bullying in our school is normative because it simply isn t. the data shows bullying is going down and that is not a popular thing to say these days. bullying is a very important social problem that we need to fix, but it is not an epidemic and it s not on the rise and neither is cyber bullying and the top scholars in the country and in social science and psychology that saying that, so that s an important distinction so thank you both so much. and there is
and it s a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through police department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. we offer it all over santa clara county and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. a second initiative we are working to make happen is something called school link services where there s all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often it s not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and we re sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecutor and it really offends our sensibility for someone to be taking advantage of to be harme