Monday, November 28, 2011

Our Lady of Trust Middle School

Thank you to the students at Our Lady of Trust Middle School for incredible work designing anti-bullying campaigns today! Students designed posters with unique ideas on how to end bullying in their school. These ideas have been adapted as the schools official policy!

One student asked me how to handle a bully if they don't stop even when you ask a million times. When a bully goes that far to make you uncomfortable, that's when you need to block them from reaching you. Walk different halls to class, pull out the buddy system so you are never alone, and insist that a teacher move you to a different seat (or even different classroom) if they are distracting you. If it's rumor-spreading, ask your friends to make sure no one tells you what the bully is saying. If it's rude messages online, put a block or mark them as spam. Bullies will only bully when they know their actions will reach the victim. If you let them see that they can't get to you anymore, they will eventually give it up.

At the end I had a surprise. Our Lady of Trust is the second school to launch the Project Empower OUTREACH competition!! Good luck to the students!! Can't wait to see your results!! Thanks for a great day!

Learn more about Project Empower and Outreach.

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