Students are scheduled to have a two hour homeroom on Thursday, January 24, to discuss registration with counselors and to raise bullying awareness.
Students will meet at 8:10 and then proceed to their first period classes at 10:10.
“For years students and staff have asked why we don’t do more programs that support the basic themes addressed during the Freshman NAMES assembly. So tomorrow offers different opportunities to do that. 9th and 10th grade homerooms will hold discussions around bullying based on watching a series of video clips from John Quinone’s “What Would You Do?” Series on television. Some select Soph homerooms will meet in the blackbox to watch and discuss clips of student interviews about issues of race, religion, and racism,”principal Kaine Osburn wrote in an email.
Students will be meeting in different locations and will be discussing different topics.
“Junior homerooms will watch and discuss a documentary called “Miss Representation” which is about detrimental images of women in the media. Seniors will meet with me in the auditorium then hear from Jim DiNomie, a Native American who will talk about images of Native Americans and issues surrounding the use of Native American imagery,” Osburn wrote.
Maham • Feb 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Raising awareness to bullying is such a great idea. Bullying is a serious issue and I feel that people don’t have enough information about it.
Danny • Jan 24, 2013 at 1:11 PM
I want chocolate
Mara Shapiro • Jan 24, 2013 at 11:02 AM
I think this is a wonderful idea on the administration’s part. I’m very sad that I wasn’t able to be a part of this. I just hope students truly take away from this instead of solely reflecting during this two hour time period. Plus, what beats starting first period at 10?