Milton picnic to kick off anti-bullying campaign
MILTON—The Milton Youth Coalition is hosting a community picnic at Friday evening at Northside Intermediate School to kick off a citywide anti-bullying campaign this school year.
The picnic starts at 6 p.m. at the school at 159 Northside Drive, Milton. The first 125 students at the event get a piece of pizza, chips and a cookie.
The event includes a short presentation by Northside Intermediate School Principal Sarah Stuckey on the negative impact of bullying. The picnic also includes a dance, games and a raffle drawing for anti-bullying t-shirts and Piggly Wiggly gift cards.
It’s part of the Milton Youth Coalition’s new anti-bullying campaign: “Live the Milton way: Safe in our schools. Safe in our community. No bullying.”
Other anti-bullying programs through the campaign include:
--“Lunch With A Cop” program in which a Milton police officer will have lunch with a classroom at Northside Intermediate School to talk to students about bullying.
--Bully Patrol: Milton High School students who monitor areas around Milton Middle School and Northside intermediate to watch for before and after-school bullying.
--Bully Alert: an anonymous online bullying complaint form available on the Milton Police Department’s page on the city of Milton website, ci.milton.wi.us.
For more information on the anti-bullying campaign, read Friday’s Gazette, read online on the Gazette’s e-edition or check back at Gazettextra.com.
Sep 7, 2012 at 3:06 p.m.
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Yeah...let's extend this concept to not having any competition whatsoever. We can start handing out the "participants" medals now (or course, we started that program years ago) - you know..."everyone is special (in their own way")! Perhaps the medals could look like daisies, or maybe even sheep.
I'm sure that Mexico and China and India and SE Asian countries, among others - countries where people accept that it takes hard are used to working hard to get ahead - would be happy to support that concept (here in the US, of course!).
Sep 7, 2012 at 8:12 a.m.
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Good luck, Mrs. Stuckey and the Youth Coalition. What a great cause!
Sep 6, 2012 at 7:15 p.m.
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I find it funny this is foot ball season. A sport where the weak, fat, and slow kids arnt allowed to play ay HS. A sport that kids form sides and fight for a ball and the best player gets the most praise and attention, the worst player getting the least. So in a nut shell you have a sport that teaches kids that gangs are stronger, its ok to hate the opposing team, teach them how to tackle, how to become popular based on your success... Dont people realize there is the other side of this spectrum also? And all this taken off the field is bullying? Bullies are what makes America.
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