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Knowing what methods work with which kids were going to come a long ways in terms of the interventions and then being successful with those. Thank you. A lot of folks talked about the culture of a school and improving the culture of a school. When i was doing Background Research on bullying one thing that came to mind was sort of the differences in different cultures which could be in two different schools in the same city about who the victims of bullying might be and the hot shots in each of the schools, so for example research showed that the social attitudes within a particular setting and...

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 the movie that perhaps football is everything and if a child isnt good at sports theyre an outcast. I would like to ask how or if...

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 initial...

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 ...

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 the movie that perhaps 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. ...