1/4-sec PRIMATE EYE-Flash Warning Alert YOUR School Board TOO! see-Sclera-at :46
Channel: Michael Sirbola
Date: 17/08/2012

TEXAS HUGE! Why EYE FLASH your SCHOOL BOARD? (I didn't mean to - I got excited) REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR CLASSROOMS! It is NOT ILLEGAL TO %-Poll STUDENT Groups - It is ILLEGAL to question individual STUDENTS! 1 in 5 is "crazy" and is a CALL TO ACTION that justifies getting things done - fast! "Kids on fire" is used  but should be "adults on fire" because we are crazy. 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?

NOT Mr. Rogers! (sadly) Primate Eye-flash Alert Signal lasts only 1/4 second at :46 - Its an instinctive Human Primate Eye Signal Group Warning Alert. This group warning alert eye signal isn't a direct personal challenge but a group signal. It communication both a warning and a command - I'm guessing! ;) Ask a private question - primates have a highly-evolved (ie: insanely arbitrary) hierarchical culture that innately (ie: inevitably) will emphasize punishment over reward as the guiding social norm when stressed. Thus there is both a social norm within which child abuse can occur, and the capacity to be secretive as a child when being mistreated. 

Ask the sensitive (or not) question and before the question is answered, have the person flip a coin and keep the results secret. Instruct them to answer "yes" if the coin comes up tails, and truthfully, if it comes up heads. A yes answer might reflect the toss of the coin or ones true experience, there's no way to tell! Half the questionnaire population who have not ???'d get tails and the other half get heads when they flip the coin. Therefore, half of those who answer "NO" to "Have you ever ???'ed?" will answer "yes" even though they have NOT done it. So whatever proportion of the group said "NO", the true number who did not do ??? is double that. For example; If 20% of the population surveyed said "NO", then the true fraction that did do ??? is 40%.

NOT JUST FOR SENSITIVE QUESTIONS - MOST class questions should be asked anonymously this way to encourage participation and inclusion of ALL students. 

NATIONWIDE 1 IN EVERY 5 KIDS IS CRIMINALLY VICTIMIZED BEFORE 18 -  WE STEP OVER BODIES EVERY TIME we hear and do nothing. We are numb, stepping over the writhing-in-pain bodies of our own and others children for too long - Every time we ignore the  statistic of "1 in 5" we've just STEPPED OVER ANOTHER BODY. In the past, we felt we had to, that everyone else was doing it, or that nothing could be done - So we stepped over bodies, pretending blindness - We Need Be Blind No More! 

Anonymous polls give the voiceless, especially kids, a way to reach out. Our children are on fire and burning and we need step over them blindly No More! Once there is a mind-set of; "Our Kids Are On Freaking-Fire!" new programs will happen - fast! Statistics haven't been believed accurate, going in one ear and out the other - THESE STATS WILL SCREAM! Many think 1 out of 5 (or worse) applies only to "other" kids and not the classroom, school & community of ones own kids -- No More! 

NEWSFLASH: 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. We must go Beyond Biology -- Biology keeps the number of kids in crisis above 1 in 5 -- JUST SAY NO TO BIOLOGY! 

Teachers can have increased roles as mentors and role models and will be more available and sought-out by individual students when those students face personal life and learning challenges requiring adult insights and knowledge - 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. THIS GIVES CHILDREN A VOICE! 
 
COIN-TOSSES - FOR ALL STUDENTS, SOLDIERS & PUBLIC EMPLOYEE'S 

TRUTH-TOSS this PRESIDENTS DAY FEBRUARY 2013!
George Washington quarters, coin-flips, TRUTH-TELLING & APPLE Tree's! 

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY? 

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