Apr

18

Senator Bob Beers was right & Muth weighs in

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Senator Bob Beers was right about the need to better protect our students from random violence. You can read some thoughts on the matter after the horrendous tragedy at Virginia Tech University on his blog by clicking here.

Chuck Muth wrote in his April 17th Nevada News and Views, “When Nevada state Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas) introduced his bill this year to allow properly trained teachers to carry a gun for protection in schools, he was universally ridiculed by the Left…and even by some on the Right. Perhaps those who thought this was such a crazy idea will re-think their position in light of the school massacre which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday. You can read Chuck’s article entitled Guns & Teachers by clicking here.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

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  1. Beth Carls on April 18, 2007 2:57 pm

    Joe, I appreciate your comments on the Virginia Tech tragedy.

    Another blog asked the question - How do we reach out to a troubled individual and provide them with the support and tools to face adversity and make the right choices in solving those issues? I’d like to add my comments here.

    So many times when these types of situations happen, we talk alot about the problem and very little about the solution. Many times it’s because we might not know what to do. MindOH! does have a solution.

    After spending my life in corporate America, I had a chance to take some IPO funds and start a socially responsible business. And what MindOH! has focused on for the past 7 years is giving students their voice - using technology. We create online tools to improve offline relationships.

    Many times as adults we just don’t listen to the young people in our lives. I know many of us can remember many times growing up when we felt shut down, not heard. Did your parents ever say “Children should be seen and not heard?” Fortunately, many of us had the self-esteem to deal with those kinds of experiences and were able to move on. For those of us who didn’t have a healthy self-concept, we acted out in these inappropriate ways.

    It’s amazing what a 20 minute interactive module can do to have a conversation with a young person and give them a chance to tell their side of the story without being interrupted. We meet them in their culture (technology) and help them with the process to put their story together when they’ve misbehaved in school before they meet with a school authority. We get almost 6 times as much information with our process than when a student talks face-to-face.

    And, we took that evidence-based program and created a similar product to deal with issues between families in the home.

    So, once we get the amount of information from the student and it is shared, then the intervention becomes more effective, the student feels heard and an improved relationship takes place.

    Did you know that it only takes ONE adult who a child feels connected to to help them have a connection with someone on their school campus? Students drop out of school typically for 2 reasons: (1) they don’t feel a connection to anyone on campus; and (2) they don’t believe school is relevant.

    We are doing everything humanly possible to get the word out about this tool and help schools find funding so they can begin getting to the bottom of the issues facing them daily in discipline management.

    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

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