{"id":8581,"date":"2012-02-13T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2012-07-01T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T21:15:01","slug":"lancaster-school-featured-in-pbs-premiere-of-not-in-our-town-class-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/02\/13\/lancaster-school-featured-in-pbs-premiere-of-not-in-our-town-class-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster school featured in PBS premiere of Not In Our Town: Class Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LANCASTER \u2013 At 10:30 p.m. tonight, Lancaster\u2019s Del Sur middle school will be featured in the nationally broadcast PBS premiere of Not In Our Town – Class Actions, <\/em>a documentary which profiles students and community members who are creating change in the wake of racism, anti-Semitism, and the traumatic consequences of bullying.<\/p>\n

The half-hour documentary will highlight how Del Sur counselor Lauri Massari \u00a0organized an anti-bullying campaign that brought together the community and its four school districts serving 50,000 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had two suicides that happened within 50 miles of our school and our town,\u201d Massari says in Class Actions<\/em>. \u201cWhen something like this happens so close to your own community it’s a wake-up call and you realize that this could happen to any one of us and we’ve got to do something a little bit more because apparently what we were doing isn\u2019t working isn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strength of the anti-bullying program, Massari says, lies in student involvement, \u201cKids create change on campus, not adults. They have the power to create the culture that\u2019s important to them.\u201d \u00a0Massari also encourages students to focus on the positive aspects of \u201cpeer power\u201d versus \u201cpeer pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Narrated by Yul Kwon, the documentary features Lancaster, Oxford, Mississippi and Bloomington, Indiana as they share how they are standing against hate and bullying.<\/p>\n

Lancaster residents may tune-in at 10:30 p.m. to their local PBS channel KOCE<\/strong>, which can be found on Time Warner Cable\u2019s PBS channels 408 (HD) and 240 (Standard Definition).<\/p>\n

For more information regarding the \u201cNot In Our Town\u201d program, visit NIOT.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

View video of counselor Lauri Massari describing why she created a Not In Our School anti-bullying program at Del Sur school and how it spread to the entire Lancaster community in the DVD extra from the PBS program, Not In Our Town: Class Actions<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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View the opening\/teaser of the PBS premiere of Not In Our Town – Class Actions<\/em><\/strong> below.<\/h4>\n

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