Rhonda K. Baughman
&
Vivian Cook
From ANDRAS JONES: In this Pop Oracle session with Vivian Cook we are joined by educator and author Rhonda K. Baughman to discuss the “Recognize, De-Escalate, De-Code” protocol for confronting bullying. Dr. Baughman has taken this concept that I began posting about in the last couple of years and run with it, turning it into a paper she has submitted to her school and academic conferences. I’m happy she’s been getting positive responses to this concept and hope that maybe once the folks of Olympia start hearing about it from someone other than me they’ll start incorporating it into their own organizational responses to bullying dynamics that can target anyone. Vivian’s answer, a song that was inspired by growing up in a town that experienced a wave of teen suicides, is about as perfect as it gets. If we never recognize the problem it will simply keep escalating.
JUST KIDS
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E A C#min B
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Got a letter today
From a friend who speaks in poetry
It brought up some painful memories that they
Told us time would heal so
Tell me how I feel and watch the
Years evaporate, suddenly we’re
all too late
Again
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E A C#min B
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Well I guess I knew time
Wouldn’t bring any answers
Still I thought she might have
Come up with something to say
To fill the silences of they
Who used to fill shoes
Don’t ever ask me
What’s there to lose
There’s a lot
E A E A
E A C#min B
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And they’re making numbers out of names as if
They were somehow the same
It’s not a lack
It’s just a life left out in the rain too long
And there’s beauty and truth in that
Just be careful how far you go
Cuz there’s a point of no return so
E A C#min B
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Let’s move
Somewhere cheap
And just read for like a year
I’ll bring the weed, you bring the beer
And I’ll glady hear you say
That we were just kids if
You’ll explain how that makes
Any difference
