Brighton Kill's it With Kindness

School clubs See Something Say Something (SSSS), Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), S.A.D.D, and Peer Mediation decided to spread kindness throughout the school starting on Monday, February 16. For an entire week these clubs promoted the importance of treating others with respect and giving back to the students and staff in order to develop a positive atmosphere.
The goal of Kindness Week is to brighten everyone’s day one smile and kind act at time. Each of the groups will have a specific day during the week that allows them to give back to the school.
SSSS is focused on creating a safe and supportive school environment. For Kindness Week, SSSS plans on decorating the school with posters containing kindness quotes in order to give the students a positive reminder to be nice to others as they go about their school day. In addition, there will be fliers with free compliments hanging around school. Students are encouraged to take one and embrace the positive qualities that they often overlook. During lunch, SSSS had a table where they passed out imperative information about their safety tip line known as the “Principal’s Page”. SSS President Emily Bobel has been working hard to make sure that Kindness Week has an overall positive impact on the school.
“We want to promote every aspect of kindness in order to make people feel safe and accepted throughout the school and to teach people how to show this feeling. I think it will benefit the school by making the student body as a whole more comfortable in our school,” Bobel said.
Lastly, SSSS passed out flowers in every color of the rainbow to students to support the theme of tolerance and kindness to everyone. Senior and SSSS member Sarah Hively was excited for Kindness Week to begin.
“Kindness Week will promote kindness and kind acts at BHS,” Hively said.
S.A.D.D. was also determined to brighten up the school day by spreading their acts of kindness. During lunch S.A.D.D. had a table outside of the lunchroom that was dedicated to passing out pins that say “Try Kindness” and “Pay It Forward”. Pay It Forward is S.A.D.D.’s theme of receiving a kind gesture then passing the kindness along by doing something kind for someone else in hopes of starting a chain reaction of kindness that makes the world a happier place to live. S.A.D.D. advisor Kris Sinacola has been getting her club ready to help everyone enjoy school a little more.
“S.A.D.D. will also be passing out small cards to students that say: Sending you some sunshine for a beautiful day,” Sinacola said.
Peer mediation and GSA were also ready to make their leave a positive mark on the school. Peer mediation created a peace tree that contained leaves with kindness quotes from students. GSA promoted overall acceptance and tolerance by having each grade wear a specific color on their day.
Kindness Week comes around once a year to remind the school of the positive atmosphere that should be upheld. Let’s make it a goal to make sure that kindness continues to last longer than one week.