PALMDALE – The City of Palmdale, in partnership with Best Start and Girl Scout Gold Award candidate Jo Barrera, will present a series of interactive anti-bullying workshops titled “Take a Stand Against Bullying,” designed for students in grades 5 through 12 and their parents.
The interactive workshops for youth will cover the types of bullying, bullying prevention, methods of protection and ways to take action against bullying. Interactive stations and snacks will be part of the event.
Parent workshops led by Best Start will be presented in English and Spanish and will cover how bullying affects children, tools to combat bullying and resources for those affected by bullying.
The workshop schedule is as follows:
- Sat., July 25, 9-11 a.m., Yucca Neighborhood House, 503 E. Ave. Q-3
- Sat., Aug. 15, 9-11 a.m., Manzanita Neighborhood House, 38627 32nd St. E.
- Sat., Aug. 22, 9-11 a.m., Tumbleweed Neighborhood House, 1129 E. Ave. R-4
The workshops are free and open to the public.
“This is yet another excellent example of how the City of Palmdale and those in our community who truly want to make a difference can collaborate to make a neighborhood stronger and better,” said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford.
“As someone who was bullied when I was younger, I appreciate this collaboration to discuss an important topic,” said Councilmember Fred Thompson.
Barrera, a Senior Girl Scout in Troop 9022, is in pursuit of the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting, and partnered with the City to host the workshops.
The Girl Scout Gold Award is a national award with significant standards that elevate a girl’s leadership skills, creativity, value, and efforts to make the world a better place. Earning the Gold Award requires spending at least 80 hours planning and implementing a challenging, large-scale project that is innovative, engages others, and has a lasting impact on its targeted community. The prestigious award recognizes Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts—girls in ninth through 12th grades—for outstanding accomplishments in leadership, community service, career planning and personal development.
Nationwide, only 6 percent of all eligible Girl Scouts achieve the Gold Award. Approximately 1 million Girl Scouts have earned their Gold Award or its equivalent since 1916. Girls who earn their Girl Scout Gold Award automatically enter the military one rank higher and qualify for college scholarships and additional national service awards.
For more information on the workshops, call 661-267-5126.
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Ana says
I’m so glad they are doing this. But they need to invite most teachers and coaches from Mesquite Elementary. They bully kids all the time. I had a case open by one teacher with the district and had witness how coaches bully kids. Thank you for the workshop
A mom says
I so agree with you Ana. Bullying starts in the elementary grades, bullying is a learned behavior. Children are not born to be bullies.
If your child attends a school of choice, why are they keeping the bullies?!? Common sense is to send the bullies back to thier home school.
For example let’s use PLP, they have so many children in every grade level on a waiting list to attend PLP. And yet, the school doesn’t expel bullies as they should, instead they are allowed to stay in the school, as a form of punishment.
Who are you punishing?, the bullied student?!?
What is worse is the teachers bullying children, not in high school, but in elementary school. So the cycle never stops! Teachers, it’s not ok to tell children they can’t use the bathroom and to make them pee themselves in front of their peers?!? What are you teachers thinking?!? No, we are not talking about kindergarten, this is about 3rd and 4th graders.
Stop degrading our children this way, this is how bullying starts, with the teachers.
To parents of bullied children, do something about it, don’t dismiss your child with the thought that ‘their doing this to get out of school’. Trust that something is happening.
Go on the internet and read about how bullied children behave. If any of the things mentioned about how a bullied child’s behavior is and your child is displaying many of the symptoms of a bullied child, get them help. Before it’s to late….
Parents, instead of complaining to other parents, join hands and see the PSD Superintendant. Remember, a hundred ants can defeat a single grasshopper.
I can only imagine how difficult it is to have 25-30 children in a class. With that said, teachers you chose your career and if you dislike your job to the point where you are bullying children…change careers, it’s never to late.
We all have jobs and with that, tremendous accountability. The teachers in PSD appear to have no accountability! Teachers, your job is to teach, so leave your personal problems at the school gate, before entering. Most importantly, don’t take out your anger on our children just because you hate your job, the parents or children in general.
Enough is enough PSD. I don’t want my child to be a sad statistic, like the recent 12 yr.old.
If I acted the way some of the teachers and admin behaved, I’d be fired…no questions asked. PERIOD
We parents have entrusted you (teachers) with our most precious asset, only to find out you can’t be trusted. SMHID!
This anti-bullying campaign with high school kids is a bit late, it should start in the 2nd. grade to the eighth grade level and beyond as needed! Teachers, learn to be a professional.
I met a very nice young man that attends Paraclete High School, he is the president of the No Bullying Club. Perhaps PSD will allow this student to speak to other students that have been bullied. It could help those that are bullied to feel some confidence of knowing they are not alone.
The most important thing all teachers should do is to look up the definition of a bully and if what you’ve been doing is listed…Just STOP it, yes, I am imploring you to do so!
Just so everyone is clear about bullies, I was told there is no such thing as zero tolerance for bullies, thank you for the info from the PSD!, are you kidding me?!?
Tim Scott says
When my mother still lived in Lancaster I was threatened with “there could be code inspectors going over her place with a fine tooth comb once a week.” She was well past 80. When the local government threatens 80 year old grandmothers it is a clear statement on how they conduct themselves.
Tim says
They could ask Rex to give a talk on How to Bully. Nobody does it better than Rex!