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They dont think this is a big deal. Yeah. Youve been through training to stop bullying so what does that mean . Well try to stop it and well try to get them to stop saying those things. Have you done that so far . Have you been able to intercede . Yeah. What happened . They stopped. Nobody did anything bad to you . No. How did that make you feel . Good. Good job. Thank you so much, honey. There are two things that she raises that i just want to highlight. One is the role of the teacher, what the...

Accountable i think is what tony is talking about. Its not a healthy relationship and its issues of power and about relationships. How do you develop relationships that are respectful . It reminds of the term social justice. We think we know what we mean by it but i cant tell you the emails i get from individuals. If if you dont get me in the school i want to youre denying me social justice and its usurping of the teerm and lets call bullying what it is and assault and make it clear to what it i...

Again the Housing Trust fund the passage of the Housing Trust fund will generate some modifications to the manual and we plan on come back to you next year for that update. This update doesnt contemplate or contradict any of the Housing Trust fund work. Im going to refer to a memo included in your packet, which outlines the few changes that have happened since the last hearing. The first there was a clarification had a we made that bmr onsite ownership will be priced at 90 ami. We wanted to make...

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 isnt. 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 ...

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 lang...

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 doesnt do the right thing and this is my initiative and if you dont do the right thing you dont look like what know what youre doing and that isnt cool and you didnt 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...

The community and the parents can manifest themselves in terms of who folks are picking out to target; right . So for example at maybe a high end school like lowell ore gunn you might have bullying because youre not taking enough ap class. I have heard this and there is so mush pressure and criticized by the peers if theyre not smart enough. In other schools its the opposite and bullied because they are smart when that is not the krult. Maybe in texas where its a different culture that we saw in...

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 doesnt do the right thing and this is my initiative and if you dont do the right thing you dont look like what know what youre doing and that isnt cool and you didnt 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...

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 prescribed ways of dealing with things. 20 requires really very targeted soc...

Think we need to get that training kicked in really fast and thats a point well taken, and i appreciate lee you showing that clip because it illustrates an important distinction that we need to make. We dont 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 bullyi...