In different communities . And i think perhaps the Law Enforcement folks feel the cultures in the communities and see that come out in the adults. I would like to hear about how do you affect a culture and even in San Francisco we have many cultures affecting what is valued, what is criticized. You know i think that richard touched upon this. Its a relationship of power and its clearly going to differ from community to community; right. When i was telling you i was picked because because i didnt speak english or at all initially there were only about 5 of us that were hispanic in the school and wouldnt be the case if 95 are hispanic and English Speaking as a second language, but i think the way that we can deal with the issue is we ought to first of all start with the notion of respect for others, and respect for others can work across the line. It doesnt necessarily mean it doesntly has to deal with the culture. Is how we treat one another . And i think we have to be very clear in our
Feel there are different needs in different communities . And i think perhaps the Law Enforcement folks feel the cultures in the communities and see that come out in the adults. I would like to hear about how do you affect a culture and even in San Francisco we have many cultures affecting what is valued, what is criticized. You know i think that richard touched upon this. Its a relationship of power and its clearly going to differ from community to community; right. When i was telling you i was picked because because i didnt speak english or at all initially there were only about 5 of us that were hispanic in the school and wouldnt be the case if 95 are hispanic and English Speaking as a second language, but i think the way that we can deal with the issue is we ought to first of all start with the notion of respect for others, and respect for others can work across the line. It doesnt necessarily mean it doesntly has to deal with the culture. Is how we treat one another . And i think
School how can we is this all one way of doing this, or do you feel there are different needs in different communities . And i think perhaps the Law Enforcement folks feel the cultures in the communities and see that come out in the adults. I would like to hear about how do you affect a culture and even in San Francisco we have many cultures affecting what is valued, what is criticized. You know i think that richard touched upon this. Its a relationship of power and its clearly going to differ from community to community; right. When i was telling you i was picked because because i didnt speak english or at all initially there were only about 5 of us that were hispanic in the school and wouldnt be the case if 95 are hispanic and English Speaking as a second language, but i think the way that we can deal with the issue is we ought to first of all start with the notion of respect for others, and respect for others can work across the line. It doesnt necessarily mean it doesntly has to de
And starting with the adults and i go back to the adults because the adults really have to tow the line here. They really have to walk the talk. I cannot tell you how often i of involved in large mentoring efforts and now in two different places, in l. A. And arizona. I cannot tell you how often the teachers are the ones that set the tone whether we have a respectable environment or and not part of that is education and we have to educate the adults that spend time with the kids and the federal government will come up with the giens and 37 factors or 40 and frankly most of us wont remember and unless were prosecuting and looking for the elements of the crime and whether were going to file a case or not. I i think we need to be more global than this and this works and we need to illustrate the things that arent acceptable . What is the impact on the victim . What is the impact on everyone else . And working together to solve the problem. Nancy. In some School Districts and teachers when
Classroom management and its okay and lets get focused and ready to go on the lesson, but when youre talking about hurting somebodys feelings that is often times in my experience been an issue of power. Yeah, i would like to add to that. I think there has been dialogue in the nation throughout the issue in the last year, and when you look at recent report that the federal department of education presented basically has the definition of bullying in every single state and also a list of i think 37 components and ranks that show you state by state which ones include those components of it. As we heard earlier the federal department is close to approving a federal definition of bullying, so i do believe there is a lot of work in this area. I also think there is a lot of work going on in terms of evidence based practices in terms of interventions that is very exciting. Some of the information that we know is that about 80 of the bullying that goes on can pretty much be handled by some very