Students, staff and PTA members in the East Meadow School District joined together to recognize Unity Day, a national effort to prevent bullying through the promotion of kindness and compassion.
Students and staff in the district’s nine schools showed their support for the cause by wearing orange and sporting orange wristbands signifying Unity Day awareness. The PTA also placed banners in each school, which students signed as a vow to treat fellow students with respect and be “upstanders” rather than bystanders.
At Parkway Elementary School, members of the PTA crafted a banner with the slogan “Parkway's United Hands – Unite to Do Right.” Students and staff signed their names on the banner, and teachers discussed the meaning of unity with students.
Students and PTA members at Meadowbrook Elementary School created a banner that read “Unite to Do Right – Take a Stand, Lend a Hand.” During morning announcements, students from each grade level shared their thoughts on what it means to stand together for an important reason.
At Bowling Green, Rhonda Cohen’s first-grade class learned about what makes a good citizen, and Mrs. Cohen discussed strategies for dealing with a bully. Students role-played and discussed how they felt as the bully and as the victim. At the end of the day, they took a “good citizen” pledge and wrote stories about what they had learned during Unity Day.
Special morning announcements were made at McVey Elementary School, Woodland Middle School and W.T. Clarke High School to encourage students to embrace Unity Day and work to alleviate bullying in their school communities.
Recognizing October as National Bullying Prevention Month, W.T. Clarke Middle School embraced the “Unite to Do Right” theme, while Barnum Woods Elementary School focused on the importance of demonstrating caring and compassion and abided by the theme “Orange you glad to be an upstander?”
East Meadow High School held an assembly where staff discussed different forms of bullying and showed several videos to highlight specific types. Students also took a survey to provide staff with feedback on how they felt about the social environment at the high school.
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