"Legitimate" Bullying by Florida Law Conveniently Leaves Out MOST Cases so Grossly Under-repored
Channel: Michael Sirbola
Date: 2012-10-17

Dear Mr. President - If a madman were driving around randomly tossing acid into the faces of one out of every five young girls and boys, leaving behind hideous life-long scars - after a few weeks of this happening in random cities across the nation, we'd call out the national guard, army, navy, air force... Right? Yet this type of hideous life-long scarring and carnage is occurring right now, the scars are EQUALLY REAL in EVERY sense of the word, The scars are all on the inside of our children, INVISIBLE and hidden-inside. NEW positron and magnetic; PET & fMRI, imaging technologies make it clear that far bolder levels of effort and commitment are called for. 

1 in 5 KIDS VICTIMIZED by 18 DOES NOT COUNT SELF HARM - Hunger - Hurting-inside - Bullying - attempted suicide, cutting... ? 

WHAT ARE the REAL  statistics AMERICA? 
For FLORIDA? TEXAS? CALIFORNIA? New York? Ohio? 

Stress and hunger make learning difficult. Being Bullied & Stressed-out at School greatly predisposes children for childhood OBESITY - Enough! PLEASE TWEET THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS - Help make this HAPPEN NATIONWIDE! 

DEMAND STATISTICS ON STUDENTS Hungry, Bullied or In-CRISIS at YOUR school!  KIDS SUFFER mostly in SECRET with NO ONE TO TELL because NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT! 

Anonymous Coin-toss polling enables one to ask; 
Has anyone in the room ever ???-ed, with ??? being something embarrassing or illegal.  "Have you ever ???-ed? Yes or no?" First students privately flip a coin. If it lands heads, students answer yes, regardless. If tails, students answer truthfully. 

HOW IS IT ANONYMOUS? A yes might reflect the toss of the coin or ones true experience, there's no way to tell! Half who answer "not" to "Have you ever ???'ed?" will answer "yes" although they haven't. 

HOW DOES ONE CALCULATE THE PERCENTAGES? The number who did not do ??? is double the number saying "no"- So if 20% of the group surveyed said "no, then the true fraction that did do ??? is 40%! 

IS IT FOOLPROOF? YES! The flip result is kept private and is known only to the student answering the question.

IS THIS JUST FOR SENSITIVE QUESTIONS? Absolutely Not! 
MOST class questions should be asked anonymously this way to encourage full participation & real 100% inclusion for ALL students. 

Until now we simply had no way of knowing the truth, now we know how to ask and find real answers - Dunk our heads or flip a coin for the truth - Which will it be?

Acceptance of the statistic of 1 in 5 is NOT "like" being crazy -- it IS CRAZY. 

Once reactive-mindsets (on-fire mindsets) become the cultural norm,  everyone's (spooky) blindness to the degree of inefficiency is its own proof. 

1 in 5 is a CALL TO ACTION and justifies getting things done fast! "Kids on fire" should be "adults on fire" because we are crazy as loons. We must stop more kids catching our "fire." Reactive-minded persons (people on fire) are ill-suited to go around putting other people's fires out (put one out, another will be started by the corrective-action itself). The situation isn't hopeless, we have (some remaining) free will. 1 in 5 is NOT OK! What are you going to do with YOUR free-will TODAY?

SPREAD the NeuroGenesis! 

Healthy eating and lifestyles plus happy environments INCREASE the "behavioral transmission of neurogenesis!" 

Behaviorally-transmitted brains... pass the brains please...  ;)
http://archive.rcgov.org/lf20031001/LF100103-02.pdf

Stress Strangles the Mind - See Success in School from being well-fed & happy!

Classroom coin-toss polls make severity of problems visible http://bit.ly/SRTnis 

Flip your class to Flip the Country from Nasty to Nice:BEST MOVIE EVER ON STRESS AND BRAIN! See; "STRESS Portrait of a Killer"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs&feature=related

FLIP CLASS TO FLIP THE COUNTRY! Teachers can have increased roles as mentors and role models and will be more sought-out for personal life and learning instruction requiring adult insights and knowledge - Flipped Classrooms emphasize the common humanity of teacher and student, not the superiority of one over the other. 

100% Classroom Inclusion is now possible - All kids participate with anonymity! 

LEARN More at http://youtu.be/MhIEFYgPQ4U 

GOOGLE Tools in Education! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y0Gm02XGis&feature=colike

SPEAKER: Michael Sirbola School Board of Broward County, Florida, Sept. 2012
(sadly not Mr. Rogers)

Google forms a teacher/student Connection ARE YOU READY TO CRY-SMILE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y0Gm02XGis&feature=colike THE FUTURE IS COMING AND IT IS... GOOD! Kettle-Moraine High School teacher Ms. Kornowski finds a way of connecting with her students to build meaningful relationships with them. Learn more about teachers and students using Google tools in education at http://www.google.com/education