FINLAND Schools program helps ABUSED BULLIED HUNGRY HURTING STRESSED Students
Channel: Michael Sirbola
Date: 01/09/2012

INSIDE EVERY STUDENT IS A CHILD! WAKE UP TO THIS FINLAND Education System! (and AMERICA!) Anonymous Coin-toss polling enables a principal or school superintendent to ask of ones students; Has anyone in the room ever ?-ed?  In the past, not surprisingly, many students will lie if they answer the question at all - this gives true anonymity to the student.  One asks the question, "Have you ever ?-ed? Yes or no," but requests that students privately flip a coin before answering. If the coin lands heads, students simply answer yes. If the it lands tails, students answer truthfully. Because a yes response might indicate only a coin's landing heads, there is no reason to lie.

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 population surveyed said "no, then the true fraction that did do ??? is 40%! 

WHAT IS THE COST? No-cost, Free: Safe2Ask & Answer Anonymous-%-Poll Class-Coin-Toss means kids can answer & speak anonymously, safely every day - ALL KIDS! 

IS IT FOOLPROOF? YES! When asked a private question, a coin is flipped before answering. The flip result is kept private and is known only to the student answering the question; If TAILS then one answers "YES" no matter the question - If HEADS one answers truthfully. 

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

Acceptance of the statistic of 1 in 5 is NOT "like" being crazy -- it IS CRAZY. The relationship between public and education providers is so muddied with earnest, ill-informed and ill-directed understanding of the responsibilities that the system is optimally inefficient. This "inefficiency" is a natural, expected, and biologically-pre-determined. 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" is used should be "adults on fire" because we are crazy as loons. Our goal must be to 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?

Flipped Classrooms emphasize the common humanity of teacher and student, not the superiority of one over the other. This another way for teacher and student to connect meaningfully - and a way for kids to voice that which no one wants to hear. 

Finland Teachers - You CAN ask your class ANYTHING - as a group %-poll! 
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

Teacher-Safe2Ask&Answer %poll-ASK: HOW MANY HUNGRY, BULLIED, IN-CRISIS?
It is LEGAL to Percentage-%-Poll STUDENT Groups! It is only ILLEGAL to question individual STUDENTS! Safe2Ask & Answer-Coin-toss-percentage-poll ASK: HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE HUNGRY? - HAPPY? - BULLIED? - IN CRISIS?  Well-Fed Kids Don't Bully! Teachers - You CAN ask your class ANYTHING - as a group %-poll! It is LEGAL to Percentage-%-Poll STUDENT Groups! It is only ILLEGAL to question individual STUDENTS! Safe2Ask & Answer-Coin-toss-percentage-poll ASK: HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE HUNGRY? - HAPPY? - BULLIED? - IN CRISIS?  Well-Fed Kids Don't Bully! 

TEACHERS - EDUCATORS - SPEAKERS - PRINCIPALS - SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS - PTA MEMBERS - PARENTS - STUDENT COUNCILS - FREE ANONYMOUS POLLING enables STUDENTS themselves to DEMAND TO KNOW THE NUMBERS of kids being bullied on buses and in crisis at their own school! 

Federal Statistic is 1 in 5 KIDS VICTIMIZED! IS IT HIGHER? OF COURSE! Kids MUST NOW KEEP SECRETS! They DO NOT have anyone TO TELL & NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR THEM! Every School MUST ANONYMOUSLY POLL FOR NUMBERS of KIDS IN CRISIS! EMPOWER & GIVE KIDS a VOICE - HEAR THEM! This method applies to every class, every day because kids can use it to answer BOTH regular and sensitive questions! 

Speaker: Michael Sirbola, School Board of Broward County, Florida, July 2012

GRAB YOUR KLEENEX, HERE IS WHY YOU WILL Anonymous Coin-Toss %POLL OUR KIDS - JONAH MOWRY 'Whats goin on..' - YouTube http://youtu.be/TdkNn3Ei-Lg