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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Bobcat Allies attend bully conference


BY ALLY ZAUCHE
On Nov. 27, the Bobcat Allies will be sending three staff members (Ms. Michele Meade, Ms. Josie Kennicott, and Mr. Jacob Feldmann), along with five high school students (Isaac Ehlers, Sydney Lundgren, Abby Rollins, Nicole Valentine, and Brenna Wolfe) to Des Moines for Governor Terry Branstad’s Bullying Prevention Summit. The bullying summit teaches students how they can help stop bullying and how schools can’t stop bulling alone; they need the community to help as well.
It’s going to be a long day for our students, with a four-hour drive to Des Moines and the summit lasting from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This conference is open to all high school students in Iowa, and the students will meet many new people with different experiences and ideas. This conference has recently become popular because people are realizing how serious bullying has become. Hopefully, the students will come back and share what they have learned with not only the students, but also the community.  This experience will be a step in helping to end bullying in both our own school district and our state.

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