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Don’t Laugh at Me Project:
“Establishing Your School as a Ridicule-Free-Zone”
Sam Diener, Educators for Social Responsibility
This workshop helps teachers and students create a respectful, compassionate and ridicule-free school environment that nurtures both the emotional/social and academic growth of students. The “Don’t Laugh at Me” Program is a rich collaboration of Operation Respect, a non-profit organization founded by Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Educators for Social Responsibility, and it’s Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, founded by Linda Lantieri.
Trainer Sam Diener of Educators for Social Responsibility took workshop attendees through the DLAM curriculum which is designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon each other by behaviors such as ridicule, bullying and - in extreme cases - violence. He demonstrated how they could integrate it into their curriculum utilizing its design to provide teachers, school counselors, social workers, administrators and other professionals with an entry point for year-round social and emotional learning (SEL) and character education programs. The free curriculum for grades 2-5, 6-8 and after school and camp programs can be obtained from the Operation respect website: www.dontlaugh.org
Don't Laugh At Me Lyrics
Don’t Laugh At Me
words and music by: Steve Sesken and Allen Shamblin
I’m a little boy with glasses, the one they call a geek.
A little girl who never smiles ‘cause I’ve got braces on my teeth
and I know how it feels to cry myself to sleep.
Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me names,
don’t get your pleasure from my pain.
In God’s eyes we’re all the same,
someday we’ll all have perfect wings.
Don’t laugh at me.
I’m that kid on every playground who’s always chosen last,
a single teenage mother tryin’ to overcome my past.
You don’t have to be my friend, but is it too much to ask?
Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me names,
don’t get your pleasure from my pain.
In God’s eyes we’re all the same,
someday we’ll all have perfect wings.
Don’t laugh at me.
I’m fat, I’m thin, I’m short, I’m tall.
I’m deaf, I’m blind
Hey aren’t we all?
Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me names,
don’t get your pleasure from my pain.
In God’s eyes we’re all the same,
someday we’ll all have perfect wings.
Don’t laugh at me.
I’m the beggar on the corner you’ve passed me on the street
and I wouldn’t be out here beggin if I had enough to eat.
And don’t think I don’t notice that our eyes never meet.
Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me names,
don’t get your pleasure from my pain.
In God’s eyes we’re all the same,
someday we’ll all have perfect wings.
Don’t laugh at me.