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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I would really appreciate any comments and/or thoughts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Kindest regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rose Tassone<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:110%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>m: (+61) </span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>0408 944 072<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:110%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>e:
rosetassone@iinet.net.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:110%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#0F243E'>p: po box 358
leederville wa 6903</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:110%;
font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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