Anti-Bullying Club Wows Them at 2013 Expo

Kim Greenwald, reading teacher and Anti-Bullying Club (ABC) advisor at Garden City Middle School, was all smiles, her pride in the students readily apparent at this year’s ABC Expo held May 16-17.

Organized around a theme, the Expo welcomes all middle school students and teachers over two school days, and parents and siblings during one evening, to participate in the myriad of awareness-raising activities set up in the middle school library.

From “Limbo Maze Madness” to the home base sculpture contest competition, a Hawaiian luau was the focus of this year’s Expo designed to “Wipe Out Bullying.”

The student-to-student message was clear – caring and compassionate behavior is “hang-ten” cool.

The Anti-Bullying Club, some 30 strong, planned out every detail over a four-month period.

“It took a village to put this all together,” Greenwald said. “Teachers and students all contributed to make the Expo a tremendous success!”

Subsequent to the event, the middle school was awarded a “Promising Practices Award” from The Character Education Partnership – one of only four schools in New York State to be so honored.

Submitted by the Garden City School District