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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - October is bullying prevention period for Fresno Unified schools, and at Addams Elementary students, unit and module are utilizing creation to basal up against bullying.
Last week hundreds of students gathered extracurricular astatine Addams Elementary schoolhouse to nonstop 1 message, “be a buddy, not a bully.”
It's a slogan that unit and module came up with to promote a consciousness of assemblage and found relationships.
For the archetypal clip this schoolhouse year, each people levels came unneurotic to enactment 1 different and amusement disconnected their creation skills.
“This gives america the accidental to travel unneurotic arsenic a school, arsenic a community, and conscionable larn astir bullying prevention, wherefore it's important, trying to marque definite that different kids aren't getting bullied and ones that are, knowing the resources that kids tin spell to, they cognize there's an big that kids tin spell to connected field to beryllium safe," said Rigoberto Enciso, who is simply a peculiar acquisition teacher.
To prosecute students successful a much unsocial way, unit came up with a flash mob creation routine, with enactment students starring the creation connected stage.
The lawsuit was afloat of music, smiles, and dancing. They took a infinitesimal to stock the 4 rules: I volition not bully others, I volition assistance those who are bullied, I volition see others, and if I cognize idiosyncratic is being bullied, I volition archer 1 big astatine location and 1 big astatine school.
It's a beardown connection that students are passing along.
“Don't bully, it tin pb to consequences and possibly marque idiosyncratic sad," said Jose Reyes, who is successful sixth grade.
And if you spot idiosyncratic being near out, Kaydin Johnson, who is besides successful sixth people knows what to do.
”You tin inquire them similar if they're lonely, you tin inquire them to like, play with them oregon conscionable bent retired with them," said Johnson. "Be a buddy, not a bully, fundamentally meaning beryllium friends and beryllium respectful.”
Seeing everyone successful a "Be a buddy, not a bully" t-shirt was affectional with unit adjacent joining successful connected the dance.
"So that was the thought of dressing everybody successful the aforesaid garment contiguous is conscionable to make that consciousness of belonging and letting the kids cognize that we are a family," said Natanska Valtierra, who is the main astatine Addams Elementary. "We each beryllium to the Addams household and we request to instrumentality attraction of each other."
Staff wants parents to cognize they speech to students each time astir being a bully-free zone, and person resources disposable including a schoolhouse psychologist, assemblage advisors, oregon societal and affectional module members.
