Ms. Norton todays hearing on School Bus Safety is a timely hearing with children out of to see what needs to be done to keep them safe. I am interested in keeping them safe not only on school buses and as they get on and off school buses, but i am interested in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. It is true that school buses have a relatively set safety record. It is also true that children or everyed every day crashes. Us related more than i believe in most accidents, we owe it to our children, the students, to examine why these fatalities done tond what can be prevent them. There are some School Districts, school buses in my own district, modes oftake other transportation including biking, car, goingding in a on public transportation. Children are often at greater risk outside a school bus than inside it. We have figures showing 260 four students have died in School Transportationrelated accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle. Hile walking near
Time to introduce myself and our next speaker. I mentioned who is not here, but in my brief introduction, i would like to share with you how i we, mcgraw hill education got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa and with the opportunity to address sour next keynote speaker, dr. Mark bedell. Our goal is to identify national alliances. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science compa company. As a result of this alignment, we took a lead role and an active participation with our learning symposiums. So maybe its that part of me of being a proud and honored son of two cuban orphans, that instilled in me, the need of always wanting to do more and to do good. We continued our conversations with asa and our partner districts and recognize the significance and issue in addressing the needs of equity and accessing and we mcgrawhill education immediately said, yes, count us in, we want to work w
A parent came to us, wed known her personally, the whole family, for a long time. And she told me, she asked i thank her for the courage it took to come forward. She said, i dont know how to tell you this, but i think theres so much going on. She told us her son had come to her and told her there was a picture jill had sent to him in december naked in her body and it had been passed to another boy and then to another boy and put up on the internet. He told me he had these pictures of jill and he was telling everybody that they were on his email account. So everybody went on the email account and they saw and they sent them to themselves just to have them just to, i dont know, just to. We were very surprised when she told us about the picture. We had no idea. Jill was very private, we couldnt understand why she would send Something Like that to a boy that she wasnt a boyfriend, it was just a friend. Our first thought, this isnt true. We first thought this cant be true. Then i thought, i
Interrogating me about it. I was just, it was one of the scariest things ive ever had to do. Thats when it hit me, oh, my god, were in trouble. Later we heard from a Police Officer little pieces of information that this was actually happened and he had interviewed several kids at the high school who were in jills class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and g
Class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how it handle it and really talk to your children about it can be fun, it can be dangerous, these new toys that we have. Wow. All right, id like to introduce the members of our panel today, rob is here, rob, could you come on up, rob neighbor, please join us. Th