ADVISORY/''Choices and Consequences'' Cox Communications, Time Warner and Court TV Call to Action: Youth Response to School Violence.Assignment Editors ADVISORY...For Thursday Thursday: see week. (April 19) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: Cox Communications, Time Warner and Court TV will hold a
"town hall style" teen forum featuring 100 local middle- and
high-school students who will discuss violence, bullying,
cliques, harassment and peer pressure among other topics. The
forum will be televised nationally by Court TV on May 19 at
1:00 PM (PT). Forum participants include psychologists,
teachers and civic leaders such as Congresswoman Susan Davis,
Congressman Bob Filner, SD County Supervisor Dianne Jacob,
Santee Mayor Randy Voepel, SD City Schools Superintendent Alan
Bersin, SD Councilmembers, community representatives, law
enforcement officials, School Board members and interested
and concerned parents. Positive programs that address these
issues in schools will be presented. One of them -- a new
Choices and Consequences high-school curriculum developed by
Court TV -- will be demonstrated by a high-school class prior
to the forum.
WHO: The forum will be moderated by Court TV anchor Nancy Grace.
Participants will include 100 students from The San Diego
School of Creative and Performing Arts, Kearny High School,
Hoover High School, Marsten Middle School, Marshall Middle
School (all in San Diego) and Roosevelt Middle School in
Oceanside.
WHEN: Thursday, April 19:
Classroom demonstration: 10:55 AM to 11:45 AM
Forum will take place from 12:00 NOON to 1:30 PM
WHERE: San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts Theater,
2425 Dusk Dr., San Diego
INTERVIEW
OPPORTUNITIES: Ed Lopez, Cox Communications
Dan Ballister, Time Warner Cable
Representative from Court TV
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