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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Rose – Sounds like and interesting
Go. For me OS is very much like the Rorschach Test – What you see is what
you got, and it sounds like the teachers and Principal confirmed that. Not
terribly far from a prison camp which is where many schools are. God forbid
that the inmates should become too restless and then get out of control! So of
course, the forces of reason and right will have to intervene (which they did) –
thereby substantiating their prior convictions that these “students”
were pretty much wild savages requiring a strong hand. Was there an
alternative? Probably and it wouldn’t have been pretty, but in my
experience it usually (always) works. Open more Space and treat the students
like responsible human beings. Expect the best and you might get there. I have
worked with fighting street gangs, and that was always my approach. It did get
a little exciting, but nobody ever died. In fact, very useful things always
took place. Simple fact of the matter is that folks will live <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>down</span></i></b> to our
expectations. That way they can avoid responsibility for themselves and their
actions. It is all OUR fault! Then we can feel guilty and do more of what we
have always done (control, heavy hand, etc) and predictably get more of what we
have always gotten which then justifies more of the same – and so on ad
infinitum. Or something. </span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Rose Tassone<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 04, 2009
6:51 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Bullying and OST</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#403152"
face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hello everyone. I’m
wishing to share my experience of facilitating OST for the first time. It was
held in a primary school in Perth, Western Australia. Surveys administered by
the principal earlier in the year had parents and students report that they were
most concerned about bullying at this school. The principal identified the
question “What do we need to do to respect each other and get along?’
73 students, ages 8 to 12, 6 educators and 3 parents accepted the invitation.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#403152"
face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'>This is what I observed
during the OS event: A student was pushed out of her group when she went to the
breakout space even though she was the one who had initiated the topic;
students were physically fighting, pushing each other and name calling;
students who were being butterflies chose to run around, disrupt and tease
those in the groups even though there was a drawing activity available to them;
the groups tended to compete with each other on how many pages they could fill
with lists of dos and don’ts of how to treat each other. The energy
of the morning was one of palpable violence and two students were suspended.
Teachers who had been briefed by the principal to allow chaos at the event, so
that children could self organise, finally had to intervene because of duty of
care issues.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#403152"
face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'>Looking through the Book
of Proceedings the students appear to have all the knowledge of how to respect
each other and get along, though their behaviour during the event did not
depict this. At the debriefing the principal mentioned that the behaviours that
were shown are what normally occur every day in the schoolyard as they self
organise around individual survival. So it appears that the proverbial ‘Lucy’
is more than likely a 10 year old bully!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#403152"
face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'>I would really
appreciate any comments and/or thoughts.</span></font></p>
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face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'>Kindest regards</span></font></p>
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face=Candara><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rose Tassone</span></font></p>
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color:#0F243E'>m: (+61) </span></font><font size=1 color="#0f243e"><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>0408 944 072</span></font></p>
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