Kevin Jennings
Kevin Jennings
Kevin Brett Jenningsis an American educator, author, and administrator. He was the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education from 2009-11. He is currently Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation...
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It also shows how having anti-harassment policies in schools --particularly those policies that include sexual orientation or gender identity/expression --can be associated with students feeling safer at school.
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If you teach a young person that their life has no value, they'll treat their life like their life has no value. They will do things that show that they don't really respect themselves, such as use drugs or attempt suicide or engage in unprotected sex.
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While I am interested in seeing hate crimes laws passed, my primary interest is not in punishing future killers such as the men who take the lives of people like Matthew Shepard, ... My goal is to prevent those killers from being created in the first place.
We know what works. Why aren't more of them doing it? What's their excuse? That's what I want to know.