Brookside was lucky to have an assembly today by Dr. Hank Smith. He started by talking about making good and bad choices. Giving many examples of what a good choice is. He told the students that if you want to have a successful life, it’s up to the choices we make. If we want to have a happy life, it’s up to our choices.
Dr. Smith then started talking about chickens. He wanted to students to understand what a pecking order was and showed that even some schools have pecking orders. He related this to bullying and being bystanders. We don’t want to be bystanders. We need to be UPSTANDERS. We need to stand up against bullies.
Dr. Smith shared stories about kids who were bullied and how just one kid can make a difference by becoming an upstander and make a difference in the lives of the kids they help. He told us that it’s not hard to be an upstander. We just need to decide to do something.
He ended with this. “Let’s talk about chips.” He introduced a friend (a bag of chips) named Nacho Doritos. Nacho was a kid in school, happy and carefree. Someone comes up and makes fun of him, and inside his chips are crushed. But Nacho keeps a good attitude and goes on. But he is teased and made fun of again and again and again. Each time he is crushed a little bit more on the inside. He may look fine, but inside he is crushed. That changes us over time. The moral of this story. We need to stand up for ourselves and tell others that are being mean to us, “Dude, don’t crush my chips.”
Thank you, Dr. Hank, for an awesome assembly and lesson.
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