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Want that to be true we have to be just with one another and i think thats what were trying to do in oakland. [applause] District Attorney. Well first of all i would like to thank you for putting this together. I also want to thank katie miller and rebecca from my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Richard Carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. First of all le...

Or little n and thats just the way we greet each other and for someone that entered school only speaking spanish and you think about the language issues and in spanish i can tell you a whole bunch of terms that people use to great each other that are so racist, homo phobic and have a length and accepted as accepted and we need to Work Together and were dealing with a culture we are trying to shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build rel...

From my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Richard Carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. First of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. It can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. I can tell you having been a non English Speaking student and immigrant early on and quite frankly times that were very different that we wer...

Shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety Healthy Community in it. We talk about fair processes. We talk about having conversations in circles ...

Football is everything and if a child isnt good at sports theyre an outcast. I would like to ask how or if addressing the cultural needs at each 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 relationsh...