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Remember it,. 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 power of kids talking to each other. All right. Do we have another question . I appre...

Have been making. Been, wooing with the board and the foundation and launch the student Advisory Board and i 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 th...

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 they can do and what can the peers do. I think one of the truisms that teachers need to remember, they ...

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 that we need to fix, but it is not an epidemic and its not on the rise and neither is Cyber Bullying...

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 power of kids talking to each other. All right. Do we have another question . I appreciate that poi...