We have spoken recently and in the past about our programs that teach kids about how to deal with bullying. This is a serious topic and one that needs to be addressed. Every day we hear from schools looking for ways to help their students.
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Labor Day is over, and schools are either back in session or are resuming this week all over the country. If you are the coordinator for school shows at your school, and are still looking for great ideas for school assemblies, here is a super cool offer for you!
We received a communication recently in connection to one of our blogs. It was in reference to a recent piece describing how well our anti bullying assembly - Stronger Than a Bully - has been received during the last year, and how we have now created a follow up program to meet the needs of schools wishing to repeat the show each year. The writer, with antagonism and totally unprovoked belligerence, cast aspersions, denigrated the reliability of client reviews, and demanded empirical evidence proving that the show had been effective in preventing bullying. Wow! Given that the writer had, apparently, never even seen the show, we can only assume he or she was having a bad day.
At this time, every year, around the country, young parents are being thrown into new volunteer tasks with their PTO or PTA organizations. Some are charged with fund raising activities, others with membership drives, while still others are made secretaries or treasurers. But to some falls the task of arranging school assemblies. And what, they think to themselves, is a school assembly? What is a school assembly program? What do you mean I am to arrange the enrichment programs?
Henry Ford used to say that museums were all filled with the wrong stuff. He wanted museums to be about machines and technology, so he created his own, the renowned Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. And it is true that most historical museums and books are filled with information much of which is concerned with who was fighting whom at different times in the past. But, sadly, history is full of war and battles. It is a large part of the story of mankind,
Living in Michigan, people here sometimes feel the scorn of the rest of the nation. Let's face it, everyone all over this great nation, loves to heap scorn upon the city of Detroit. And, to be fair, the city of Detroit is not exactly a poster child for elegant and successful urban environments. But to be equally fair, Detroit itself is only a piece of a much, much larger regional metropolis that includes many wonderful places and people, despite what an arrogant and often short sighted national press likes to print. Moreover, the greater Detroit area has a glorious and storied past, full of accomplishments which, in a more fair world, might earn the respect and thanks of what should be a grateful nation.
Today is an anniversary of an invasion that took place in Kentucky in 1862. Kentucky, of course, remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, one of three “border states” (the other two being Missouri and Maryland) where slavery was legal and practiced before the war, but where the elected state governments did not vote to secede along with the rest of the South.
Last year, after great pent up demand from our client schools, Mobile ed began touring with a new anti Bullying program entitled Stronger Than a Bully. Demand for the new show was so great that the entire tour sold out in record time. As the shows began to play the response was magnificent. Schools loved this show! And why would they not? Focusing on s positive message teaching kids how to respond in constructive fashion when confronted by bullying, Stronger Than a Bully has produced rave reviews from schools all over the country.
