http://www.cosmeo.com/videoTitle.cfm?guidAssetId=4550055a-5cae-4ba2-a0f9-526e9627d485
This is the video I was referring to in our chat earlier this morning. If anyone from the other groups reads this, we were discussing the need for safety in the full-service middle school, particularly bullying and its consequences. I mentioned a video from United Streaming that my school showed that discusses bullying and gun violence. It is aimed at grades 6 through 8, and is very graphic in some places.
It tells the stories of several kids who were involved in real-life school shootings because they were bullied and picked on. It presents violence as the eventual outcome of school bullying. It also has shows students and educators having very frank discussions about bullying and gun violence in their schools. It fits within the scope of This We Believe in that it is meant to promote a school culture that is inviting, safe, inclusive, and supportive of all. But I would be extremely hesitant to show it again to students before maybe the second semester of sixth grade. I showed it at the end of fifth grade, after a year of some truly merciless bullying, and by the end my kids were owl-eyed and slack-jawed, like they were staring at a car wreck they couldn’t look away from. Although I did hear one of my worst bullies call out, “Why didn’t you show us this sooner?!” at the end, which I thought was very telling; his fear meant he was aware of the climate that had built up in our school from all the bullying and teasing.
The full video is available on Discovery Education’s United Streaming service, which you need a subscription to access. If you have a subscription, just go to the search feature and type in the title of the video- Reality Matters: Cruel Schools: Bullying and Violence.
If you do not have a subscription, the first link will take you to a website that has posted the first segment of the video, about 5 minutes total, for free. It gives a good overview of what the video discusses. Or, you could try the second link, which will let you sign up for a free trial and view the video that way. I believe you could see the whole thing that way. Either way, be warned: it’s very PG-13!
Thank you for posting this after our chat request to do so. I really would like to show this like you said at the beginning of the year. Since the children are so involved in the video, like you said in chat, I feel like my kiddos would really listen up and get serious. I would like to share it with my principal and see if we could use this any way school wide.
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Yes, thank you for sharing Amanda! I couldn't get it to open, but one of our team members has United Streaming so I will have her pull it up for me at school. If you say it's PG-13 I might need to wait until the end of the year also. That would work because they will have been through the bullying program at that point. You have to make sure that your group can handle the content, so I'll just have to see how mature my new group will be. Thanks again!
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