[Photos] South End Students Dress Up for 'Red Ribbon Week'

Students at South End Elementary School in Cedar Grove recently marked Red Ribbon Week, a week-long campaign of raising awareness about tolerance, bullying prevention, appreciating diversity and making good decisions in life.

Students in each class will create a construction paper tulip, which when completed will be put together in the main hallway of the school to become a "garden of good choices," as part of the school-wide "Plant the Promise" project.

Each student also received a red ribbon to wear throughout the week, and had special dress-up days for the staff and students going along with the overall theme of good decision making.

On Monday, Oct. 17, the students wore ties to school to "tie down" bad decisions. On Tuesday, everyone wore a college shirt or sweatshirt to "make an educated choice." On Wednesday, sweatshirts and sweat suits were worn to show "making good choices is no sweat." Thursday, Oct. 20, "team up against bad choices" by wearing their favorite sports team shirt or jersey, and Friday was Spirit Day, where students wore Cedar Grove's colors, black and gold.