Bathroom at someplace, you have 30 kids coming to your next class, they are bigger than you, you dont know what to do, you know theres a bullying thing in process, you do the same instinctively as fast as you can, which is to say are they bothering you. With all due respect to the wonderful politicians in the room, what do you about putting bullying policy together is easy. What these people do to actually implement it is really hard and if that moment applause so i really want you to think about like 7 periods a day with teenagers with a 5minute break. So what do you do . So you walk down the hallway and you see this happening and you do not address the target. You assess yourself, you are, like, okay, i am the authority figure, okay, deep breath, do i know these children, do i not know these children, who is the person who seems to be doing it, who has the most social power . Then you say to all the kids, looking them all in the eye, you tell them where to go, if you say the word, if
Mom and dad being upset with him for not standing up for himself, i just wanted to cringe. Whats clear is when dad said if you dont make a stop, this could happen to your little sister. Then the sister gets in on it and its, like, just puts the, as sisters will do, but i think as a, as someone who was a boy and had Difficult Conversations with my dad, i really really remember that sort of punch them, make it go away. A lot of families will give that advice. Im not even convinced thats the wrong advice, the problem is when they doesnt work, then they shut down and quit coming to you because they are afraid its a double disappointment. They cant please their peers and find friendship and then they so dont want to lose their fathers as well, this boyfather thing is so deep. Every Single Person in this room wants to start making a difference. We want to start doing it right now. Ros, how do you start giving a child the dignity that was taken away . Im actually going to use an example that
Changed the course of the movie. Those of you who have seen the movie really know things shifted after that point. But it was really hard to be on that bus and to see that happening to alex. Having seen the followup to what youre talking about, i want lee to tell you about the consequences to the boys who got called in. Were there consequences . Yeah, i mean, you see a type of disciplining that happens afterwards which was really, it was amazing. It felt like they didnt even want to deal with it. The only reason they actually dealt with it because i was in their face going are you guys going to deal with this . Are you actually going to call in any of these kids . There was such a kind of yawn response to it. The discipline was pretty very weak in many ways. But so it calls forth for me as an example about School Climate that i learned over the course of my year of shooting in that school because people talk about School Climate all the time and i think its hard to grasp, right . Altho
Blame here but you also are being seen by all the other kids in the hallway. So this is an important moment. So instead of doing that, what i believe a teacher should do because you assess themselves, sometimes you dont know these kids and they are really big. 11th grade kids are big and you have 30 kids, you have 7 periods a day, you have 5 minutes between classes, if that, youd like to go to the bathroom at someplace, you have 30 kids coming to your next class, they are bigger than you, you dont know what to do, you know theres a bullying thing in process, you do the same instinctively as fast as you can, which is to say are they bothering you. With all due respect to the wonderful politicians in the room, what do you about putting bullying policy together is easy. What these people do to actually implement it is really hard and if that moment applause so i really want you to think about like 7 periods a day with teenagers with a 5minute break. So what do you do . So you walk down th
Consequences to the boys who got called in. Were there consequences . Yeah, i mean, you see a type of disciplining that happens afterwards which was really, it was amazing. It felt like they didnt even want to deal with it. The only reason they actually dealt with it because i was in their face going are you guys going to deal with this . Are you actually going to call in any of these kids . There was such a kind of yawn response to it. The discipline was pretty very weak in many ways. But so it calls forth for me as an example about School Climate that i learned over the course of my year of shooting in that school because people talk about School Climate all the time and i think its hard to grasp, right . Although i know that this is a room of people that do deal with this and think about this all the time, but i will just share this one anecdote, which is during the course of that year, this is now frame this up against alex has just been assaulted by 10 kids on the bus, hes a kid w