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Published by W.J. O'Neill, Jr, 2016-04-11 09:42:38

WAVE 4-18-16

WAVE Safety & Security 04-18-16

How Positive Thinking Builds Your What
Skills, Boosts Your Health, and Negative
Improves Your Work Thoughts Do
to Your Brain
Positive thinking sounds useful on the surface.
(Most of us would prefer to be positive rather than Let’s say that
negative.) But, “positive thinking” is also a soft you’re walking
and fluffy term that is easy to dismiss. In the real through the forest
world, it rarely carries the same weight as words and suddenly a
like “work ethic” or “persistence.” tiger steps onto
the path ahead of
Research is beginning to reveal that positive you. When this
thinking is about much more than just being happens, your
happy or displaying an upbeat attitude. Positive brain registers a negative emotion — in this case,
thoughts can actually create real value in your life fear.
and help you build skills that last much longer
than a smile. Researchers have long known that negative emo-
tions program your brain to do a specific action.
Barbara Fredrickson is a positive psychology re- When that tiger crosses your path, for example,
searcher at the University of North Carolina and you run. The rest of the world doesn’t matter. You
she published a landmark paper that provides are focused entirely on the tiger, the fear it cre-
surprising insights about positive thinking and it’s ates, and how you can get away from it.
impact on your skills. Her work is among the most
referenced and cited in her field.

In other words, negative emo- not exercising or not eating neutral and produced no signif-
tions narrow your mind and healthy, all you think about is icant emotion.
focus your thoughts. At that how little willpower you have,
same moment, you might have how you’re lazy, and how you The last two groups were
the option to climb a tree, pick don’t have any motivation. shown clips that created nega-
up a leaf, or grab a stick — but tive emotions. Group 4 saw im-
your brain ignores all of those In each case, your brain closes ages that created feelings of
options because they seem ir- off from the outside world and fear. Group 5 saw images that
relevant when a tiger is stand- focuses on the negative emo- created feelings of anger.
ing in front of you. tions of fear, anger, and stress
— just like it did with the tiger. Afterward, each participant was
This is a useful instinct if you’re Negative emotions prevent your asked to imagine themselves in
trying to save life and limb, but brain from seeing the other op- a situation where similar feel-
in our modern society we don’t tions and choices that surround ings would arise and to write
have to worry about stumbling you. It’s your survival instinct. down what they would do. Each
across tigers in the wilderness. participant was handed a piece
The problem is that your brain What Positive Thoughts of paper with 20 blank lines that
is still programmed to respond Do to Your Brain started with the phrase, “I would
to negative emotions in the like to…”
same way — by shutting off the Fredrickson tested the impact of
outside world and limiting the positive emotions on the brain Participants who saw images of
options you see around you. by setting up a little experiment. fear and anger wrote down the
During this experiment, she di- fewest responses. Meanwhile,
For example, when you’re in a vided her research subjects into the participants who saw im-
fight with someone, your anger 5 groups and showed each ages of joy and contentment,
and emotion might consume group different film clips. wrote down a significantly
you to the point where you can’t higher number of actions that
think about anything else. Or, The first two groups were they would take, even when
when you are stressed out shown clips that created posi- compared to the neutral group.
about everything you have to tive emotions. Group 1 saw im-
get done today, you may find it ages that created feelings of In other words, when you are
hard to actual start anything be- joy. Group 2 saw images that experiencing positive emotions
cause you’re paralyzed by how created feelings of content- like joy, contentment, and love,
long your to–do list has be- ment. you will see more possibilities in
come. Or, if you feel bad about your life. These findings were
Group 3 was the control group. among the first that proved that
They saw images that were positive emotions broaden your
sense of possibility and open
your mind up to more options.



The NJ State Police entered a chaotic situation and could
BOMB THREAT easily have viewed the mother to be an
equal participant in the fight.
Check List is on the
following page Each of the family’s civil rights claims
failed. Stokes v. Board of Education of
City of Chicago, 599 F.3d 617 (7th Cir.
2010).

APRIL is BOMB THREAT Some Additional Case After a sex offender entered a Texas
EMERGENCY DRILL MONTH Law Incidents school and exposed himself to a child,
the district implemented a regulation re-
What is the main difference between a A Chicago 3rd grader had conflicts with quiring every visitor to produce a state
Fire Drill and Bomb Threat? another girl at school. The other girl’s issued photo identification as a condi-
mother and a companion threatened tion of entering secure areas where stu-
During a fire drill all windows and doors the student’s mother at her home. dents were present.
are closed to minimize the spread of the
fire. The school principal set up a meeting Under the regulation, pictures were
between the families. Near the end of taken of visitor identification cards, but
Bomb Threat staff and students should the school day, the other girl’s parent no other information was taken. The
open windows and doors. This will allow and an adult cousin fought the student’s system enabled schools to check visitor
the blast pressure of an explosion to mother and grandmother in a school of- names and birth dates to determine if
vent and minimize the damage. fice. The principal called the police and they were listed on national registered
swore out criminal complaints for disor- sex-offender database.
Closed and locked doors make it diffi- derly conduct against all four adults.
cult for law enforcement to search and A parent refused to allow her child’s
check on the suspicious item. Refrain Criminal charges were dismissed, and school to either scan her driver’s li-
from pulling the fire alarm to evacuate the principal later said he had made a cense or permit manual entry of her in-
during a bomb threat. mistake and should have only had two formation. As a result, she was denied
of the women arrested. The parent and access to areas of the school. She and
Portable radios and cell phones should grandmother sued the board of educa- her husband sued, challenging the pol-
be avoided during a bomb scare. tion in the federal court system. icy as violation of their constitutional
rights.
NEAR EVERY PHONE SHOULD BE The U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Cir-
THE NJ STATE POLICE BOMB cuit, noted the issue was not whether a A federal court held for the district, and
THREAT CHECKLIST parent or grandparent had actually the Fifth Circuit affirmed. The regulation
committed disorderly conduct. addressed a compelling state interest
and was not overly intrusive. The sys-
It was only necessary to show a reason- tem took only the minimal information
able person in the principal’s position needed to determine sex offender sta-
had probable cause to believe there tus.
was disorderly conduct. The principal
Meadows v. Lake Travis Independent
School Dist., 397 Fed.Appx. 1 (5th Cir.
2010)



Jessica Logan committed suicide in The resource officer agreed to speak to Board of Education., 780 F.Supp.2d
2008, shortly after graduation from an the other students, and he asked them 594 (S.D. Ohio 2011)
Ohio high school. Her family attributed to delete the photo from their cell
her suicide to her anguish over the phones. Later, Jessica appeared on a In a later order, the court found other
“sexting” of a nude photo of her among television broadcast about sexting. She courts have held appropriate persons
other high school students. claimed the harassment increased after for reporting under Title IX of the Edu-
the broadcast. cation Amendments of 1972 “do not
In a federal action, it was asserted that need to be aware of the exact details of
high school students were circulating She committed suicide. Her parents a plaintiff’s experience to have notice,
the nude photo with their cell phones. sued her school district, school officials, as long as they ‘reasonably’ could have
When the student reported the activity the resource officer and his municipal responded with remedial measures. “
to a counselor, the counselor referred employer in a federal court. The school
her to the high school resource officer district argued that it could not be held Since evidence indicated that school of-
(local police officer assigned to that liable because neither the student nor ficials knew of the harassment, the
school). anyone acting on her behalf made a mother could proceed with her Title IX
sexual harassment report. claim. Logan v. Sycamore Community
School Board of ED., No. 1:09-CV-
The court held there is no constitutional 00885 (S.D. Ohio 6/5/12). After the
duty of government actors to protect in- court’s order of June 5, 2012. The law-
dividuals against private parties such as suit was settled for $220,000, including
the harassing students in this case. As attorneys’ fees.
there was no evidence that the re-
source officer acted unreasonably, he Gang activities at a West Virginia high
was entitled to qualified immunity. There school escalated when a gang leader
was also no viable claim against his was arrested for shooting a police offi-
municipal employer for failing to train or cer. Gang members verbally assaulted
supervise him. the faculty and staff at school, and fights
and disturbances became prevalent.
Logan v. Sycamore Community School

The principal advised staff members
that the slogan “Free-A-Train” was
banned. A student wrote “Free-A-Train”
on his hands several times and was
suspended for 10-days. He sued the
school board in a federal district court
for speech rights violations.

The court held schools may ban gang-
related clothing if evidence indicates a
potentially disruptive gang presence
and gang-related disturbances. Recent
federal cases suggest schools may reg-
ulate expression if they can reasonably
forecast material and substantial dis-
ruption at school.

This defeated the student’s claim that
speech must lead to an actual disrup-
tion before school administrators may
suppress it.



As students and parents had expressed
fear over the use of the slogan, admin-
istrators could reasonably forecast that
allowing the student to keep displaying
it may have exacerbated the tensions
and increased these fears.

The court held the “distraction from
classes or intimidation from passive dis-
plays of support may serve as the basis
of a disruption,” and found no speech
rights violation.

Brown v. Cabell County Board of Edu-
cation 714 F.Supp.2d 587 (S.D. W. Va.
2010)

"Something to the effect of 'give me bond was set at $200,000 at an arraign-
money or I'm going to blow up the ment hearing Thursday.
school,'" Gellert said. "The others just
threatened to bomb the schools." Files, a contracted worker, was hired
Police worked with Cincinnati Bell to try after social media threats caused safety

Surveillance video shows
security guard moments

before bomb threat,
North College Hill police say

March 25, 2016
9 WCPO Cincinnati

NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio -- Sur-
veillance video from the cafeteria at
North College Hill High School shows
security guard Christopher Files enter a
teachers lounge with his cell phone at
the same time the school received its
first bomb threat Monday, police say.

Police Chief Ryan Schrand said Files, to identify the phone making the calls to concerns at the school, the superinten-
20, made threatening calls that led to the school. The calls were made from dent said.
school evacuations three days in a row. Files' cell phone from inside the school,
Schrand said. Police called the phone "(Files) was brought in because of
There are no cameras inside the teach- number and located it in the school. safety concerns and he ended up caus-
ers lounge, Schrand said, but investiga- ing more safety concerns," Gellert said.
tors believe the video shows Files When police confronted Files about the
immediately before and after the first phone, Files confessed to making the Files passed a background check to
threat. calls, Schrand said. He said he did not take the job and has no criminal history,
have a bomb in the school. He was ar- the police chief said said.
Tuesday's call demanded money, Su- rested Wednesday and charged with
perintendent Gary Gellert said, but the three counts of inducing panic. His
others on Monday and Wednesday
threatened to bomb the school with no
additional demands.

Wave security
on the move

Have you noticed the Long Branch Pub-
lic Schools security car patrolling your
campus? It is a new addition to our
proactive protective measures.

Walter J. O’Neill, Jr., the District Public
Safety Liaison, was looking to increase
the visibility of the security department
and have a vehicle that could be used
as a command center for district wide
events or in case of an emergency.

Knowing that these are belt tightening The city removed all the LBPD mark- cleaning, rewiring, new steering wheel
times for the LBPS and a new vehicle ings and took off the red and blue emer- cover and dash board panel was all it
was out of the question, O’Neill ap- gency lights. The car which had rust, needed. The police radio is the exact
proached Jason Roebuck, Public dents and a cracked dashboard was not model that the district uses, so
Safety Director for the City of Long a good looking vehicle when the LBPS Johnathan Friedman of the technology
Branch, with a request. “I asked the Di- took possession. “I knew that it was not department was able to reprogram it.
rector that if they were retiring a patrol going to win a beauty pageant and that The emergency lights were changed to
car would they consider donating it to it was taken out of service for a reason. amber, green and white. The car also
the district,” said O’Neill. But I also knew it would serve our pur- has a working public address system
pose with a little bit of work and sweat,” and a video camera.
said O’Neill.
The rear of the vehicle is being set-up
Tony Chiafullo of Tony’s Auto Body in as the command station. It has a fire ex-
Long Branch volunteered his time to fix tinguisher and strobe flares for emer-
the body and paint the bumpers and gencies. O’Neill is hoping to have a first
push bar. MACO in Tinton Falls then aid kit and a defibrillator in the vehicle.
painted the car all black for a dis- “It will also be equipped with computers
counted rate. “Long Branch PD re- that can access our security cameras
quested that the car not resemble one along with student and staff directories.
of their marked patrol cars, so we de-
cided to paint it black. MACO was very
gracious in giving the district a discount
on the painting,” added O’Neill.

Roebuck received the approval of Smart Signs in Long Branch which is
Mayor Adam Schneider and the city owned by Jose Ortiz a LBHS graduate,
council then donated a 1997 Ford Ex- worked with O’Neill to create a custom
pedition with 81,000 miles that had and eye catching design. The letters
taken out of service. “Dr. Michael Sal- and Wave logo are in black reflective
vatore and the Long Branch Board of lettering outlined in reflective silver.
Education accepted the vehicle and be-
lieved in my vision and plans for the A 20-year old vehicle also had a few
car,” O’Neill said. mechanical issues and thanks to John
Hueston at John’s Truck and Auto Re-
pair in Long Branch the car is running
well. As for the interior, a few hours of

“For a minor investment, we were able
to convert a retired police vehicle into a
roving security command center,” said
O’Neill. Long Branch is 5.22 square
miles has a population density of 5,826
people per square mile. The schools
have over 5,000 students and 1,000
staff members spread out over three
preschools, three elementary schools,
one middle and one high school, central
office, buildings and grounds facility,
and the Little Wave and Hand In Hand
program.


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