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I thought something that was interesting and i am trying to remember what i wanted to say i wanted to say our approaches are converging in opposite ways and students feel safe to get the bullying addressed but the policies are punitive and high stakes and we know that zero tolerance is not the case and makes things work and gives a one week vacation. You can leave school for a week, have fun and when you come back you get to do what you did before. Thank you. Thanks. One thing i always thought disciplining kids you is you have to get create and i have have systems in place and one thing i have...

Call back to the captain how deep the water was. The lead had on the bottom, a piece of wax that would pick up what was on the ocean bottom, sand, rocks, et cetera, so the captain could tell basically where he was. So uncharted waters, doesnt mean proceed blindly, right. It means, get information, get data, the best you can. And use that data to decide where youre going. So especially in this situation, we have so much emotion, you have politics, you have personal anxiety people feel, social anxiety, social stress. So lets stick to the facts, the data to make the best decision we can. We test ...

Parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its...

Discourse unfolds we want to get tough on bullying and the more severe the consequences are, high stakes consequence and it is antibullying laws and et cetera it is more likely children are actually not going to speak up, and it causes this sweeping under the rug and i just think this needs to be addressed and i wanted to thank you for your comment about connecting the false assumption that bullying is always linked to suicide. Thats something that was talked about at the federal summit that we need to separate these two issues out to some extent and one of the things well, i will just ask i g...

Minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the beh...