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Reply to "Why does our society and political leaders continue to fail protecting our Nation's children?"

Excellent points, Jim, about our educational system! I agree with and understand everything you said. So incredibly sad about your ASB president. You said you would say to your peers: "or do you want a punitive approach that adds to the stress and pain that the student is already experiencing?"  I would add the additional talking point that the individual's suffering will spill over in some form into "the group" (our society). I like this one-page breakdown of ACE stats http://bit.ly/L70vSe. Notice the annual cost to society: $103,754,017,492. That *might* help change some minds. Also, please consider watching Tavis Smiley's: Too Important to Fail http://bit.ly/NE4FnM ? I think it's a great watch with perhaps some good ideas for additional talking points for the field of education. I completely agree with you: "change may come one person at a time or one school at a time."  This is epidemiologist Dr. Slutkin's premise, too. We are all individual cells that affect the health of our greater body, society. Science has now proven we are biologically interconnected and that each and every one of our actions has an effect on others. I agree with you, morally we can not keep this new science out of the conversation. If we do, we are just putting continued pressure on the "self-destruct" button. Thank you for this discussion!

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