Q&A
Education and outreach strategies to prevent subway surfing
2:24:26
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112 sec
Mark Rampersant, representing New York City Public Schools, discusses various education and outreach strategies to combat subway surfing. He emphasizes the need for a multifaceted approach involving media, education, and community engagement.
- Rampersant stresses that there is no single solution to the problem
- He advocates for using social media to counter the glorification of subway surfing
- Rampersant highlights the importance of educating young people, parents, and the community about the dangers of subway surfing
- He acknowledges the challenge of convincing young people of their vulnerability to harm
Mark Rampersant
2:24:26
Well, on behalf of New York City Public Schools, I can I can I can say without any level of uncertainty that there is no one answer?
2:24:34
There is no one answer.
2:24:35
Yes to all of those things that you described.
2:24:37
Right?
2:24:37
It is going to take a media blitz, right, using the very media that kids are using to advertise what they'd believe to be great.
2:24:45
We have to combat that by using social media.
2:24:48
We have to, reach out to, federal to have their input and have them, emphasize the importance of these social media companies not, showing these these things.
2:25:01
Right?
2:25:01
And we have to use scared straight tactics and other tactics to try to reach young people, but there's nothing like education.
2:25:09
Right?
2:25:09
And we're going to have to do education in different ways.
2:25:12
We're gonna have to educate young people, educate parents, educate our our overall community about the responsibility to do their part do their part to ensure that young people are not doing the very things that they don't know is going to be hurtful and harmful to them.
2:25:27
The thing about young people is they don't think it can be me, and it could never be me.
2:25:31
The other part of being young is we never think we get old.
2:25:34
The unfortunate part about never thinking you're gonna get old, some of that may be a reality for some of our young people who make these bad choices.
2:25:42
So to answer your question yes to all of those things, what is the funding stream that it's going to take, and what is the amount of money that it's going to take to get us to have a media campaign that is going to really, really make a difference in this space?
2:25:54
I don't know the answer to that.
2:25:56
I know that the collective minds are in the room.
2:25:58
You just pointed out, the Clinton School, and I think that the some of what we are looking for in terms of answers are in this exact room.
2:26:06
It's going to be the voices of the young people.
2:26:08
It's going to be the voices of all of us in this respective, government, and it's going to be higher government to answer this question of, you know, what is it going to cost to save a life of a young person?
