The Safeway Cam Antibullying Campaign, by (me!) sandra, tvgp
there is a Safeway grocery store on the corner of valley and Santa Rita in pleasanton. I wish we could put up a Safeway cam..
what you would see, is car after car in the parking lot, and person after person, family after family.. walking from the parking lot to inside the store.. doing their grocery shopping.. paying at the register, and then.. back to the parking lot, to their car, -and home.
AND THATS HOW IT SHOULD BE.
-what you don't see: car after car in parking lot.. driving around trying to find the safest place to park.. and then one or two bullies, hanging out in the parking lot, waiting to intimidate/block the person or family from getting out of their car..
and then another bully, blocking the entrance to the store..
and then.. threats and intimidation up and down the aisles..
and someone who traps you at the register, steals money.. and threatens that fellow bullies will be following you home..
making the entire grocery shopping experience a nightmare.
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if there was anyone in the parking lot at Safeway intimidating/threatening or even bothering/annoying one of the customers..
the police are called.. and ... policy/protocol/laws are adhered to... and that problem, that person or people are gone!
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in my almost 20 years here in pleasanton, I have NOT ONCE, had to worry about entering/shopping at this grocery store. and I'm very confident if there ever was an issue.. Even low key.. It would be addressed pretty immediately.
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and yet.. School year after school year, class after class, we tolerate and/or ignore, on school campuses, what we would never tolerate or ignore at the local grocery store...
so, ... there you have my zero tolerance for bullies campaign.
if you won't, as an adult, put up with thugs and bullies at the local grocery store.. then why on Gods green earth should any child put up with thugs/bullies on the school campus.
Children should be able to get to and from school, and to and from classes with as much peace/freedom/confidence as anyone you see on my imaginary pleasanton safeway cam...
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I propose.. zero tolerance. -that bullies be literally, completely removed from campus, and sent to a different school..
where they learn how to treat others with respect.. and must prove competence in this area, before they are allowed to re-enter the public school system to learn the less important academic subjects, we have, as a society, overemphasized for too long, and at the expensive of teaching and developing basic human character first.
posted by SHE @ 11:09 PM
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