Bullying Damages Student-Brains of Entire School, Neurotoxic-Stress Lawsuits Broward Florida 2012
Channel: Michael Sirbola
Date: 2012-09-22

South Florida is the perfect "experiment" proving neurotoxic-school stress is endemic - We have gutted the education system of both money and moral, now the horrible cost is starting to come-clear... Student Stress Stops Learning! Anonymous-Polls find PROBLEM SCHOOL-bully-Cultures! CULTURE IS BIOLOGY - IMAGINE a madman were driving around randomly tossing acid into the faces of one out of 1 in 4 young girls & 1 in 7 young boys, leaving behind hideous life-long scars - IMAGINE were this to occur in every city in the nation, we'd call out the national guard, army, navy, air force... SERIOUSLY! This type of hideous life-long scarring and carnage is occurring right now, the scars are EQUALLY REAL in EVERY sense of the word, there is no use of metaphor, analogy, semantics, wordplay or hype involved - but the scars are all on the inside of our children, invisible and hidden away. In light of positron and magnetic, PET & fMRI, images it is clear that new methods of looking at this problem, and of treatment will be needed. It is also clear that new, far bolder levels of effort and commitment are called for by all of us, especially our community leaders. We must be willing to embrace new ideas, to take new risks, and to initiate new programs and efforts.  

THE Federal Statistic is 1 in 5 KIDS VICTIMIZED by 18 

NOT NOT NOT COUNTING SELF HARM attempted suicide, cutting... 

WHAT ARE 
Bullying AND OTHER-SUCH statistics, numbers & percentages for Florida, California, New York, Texal, Ohio? 

Ask OUR Students! 

DEMAND STATISTICS ON STUDENTS bullied or in CRISIS FOR ANY REASON at YOUR school!  

Federal Statistic is 1 in 5 KIDS VICTIMIZED - IS IT MORE AMERICA? 

KIDS SUFFER mostly in SECRET with NO ONE TO TELL because NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT! This method applies to every class, every day because kids can use it to answer BOTH regular and sensitive questions! 

Anonymous Coin-toss polling enables one to ask of ones students; 

Ask: Has anyone in the room ever ???-ed? Yes or no," but before answering it, students are instructed to privately flip a coin. If the coin lands heads, students simply answer yes. If the coin lands tails, students answer truthfully. Because a yes response might indicate only a coin's landing heads, people presumably would have little 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%! 

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.

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. 

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" 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 BUT 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?

FLIP CLASS! 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 is another way for teacher and student to connect meaningfully - and a way for kids to voice that which no one wants to hear... 

READ HOW TO FOR COMMUNITIES: http://archive.rcgov.org/lf20031001/LF100103-02.pdf

Neurotoxic-stress

Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia

CHILDHOOD AMNESIA - look it up...

SPREAD THE NEUROGENESIS - WELL-FED & HAPPY EQUALS Smart! 

NEW CLASSROOMS CAN CHANGE CHILDREN'S BRAINS: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND: OCTOBER 2012 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-classrooms-can-change-childrens-brains&WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter via @sciam 

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