School bullies beware: San Francisco won’t tolerate that behavior

[RandySF]

NOTE: I wish we had this kind of "from the top" support before we had to pull our son out of public school.


Documentary film director Lee Hirsch huddled in the darkness of San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre as hundreds of city middle and high school students watched his movie, “Bully,” Thursday morning.

As students alternately applauded, cheered and sniffled through tears as the film documented the devastating impact of bullying, Hirsch recorded the audience sounds on his phone, his face beaming....

In San Francisco, Superintendent Richard Carranza required all administrators, principals and assistant principals to see the film before the school year started.

On Thursday, he encouraged the hundreds of students in the Herbst Theatre to tell an adult if they are being bullied or see someone bullied — a teacher, librarian, custodian, teacher aide, counselor, parent or principal.

And since the film highlighted adults elsewhere who failed to help the bullied children, Carranza gave the students one more option.

“If nothing gets done, you email me, you call my office and we’ll get something done,” he said to loud applause.


http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/09/13/school-bullies-beware-san-francisco-wont-tolerate-that-behavior/?plckItemsPerPage=50&plckSort=TimeStampDescending

[MAD Dave]

1. I bet Carranza gets a bunch of emails.

This type of top down support is the only way to conquer bullying.