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District 64 Adds "Rachel's Challenge" to Anti-Bullying Efforts; Community-Wide Program on Tuesday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m.

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 is adding a new dimension to its anti-bullying efforts this year called “Rachel’s Challenge.”  Parents and community members are invited to a special presentation for adults explaining this powerful program on Tuesday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m. at Emerson Middle School, 8101 N. Cumberland Ave., Niles.

As a natural extension of District 64’s ongoing civil behavior focus, District 64 is using the “Rachel’s Challenge” program initially with middle school students who face a variety of new challenges as adolescents living in the world of social networking.  The program is being brought to District 64 this year through a grant from the District 64 Elementary Learning Foundation.

Earlier that day, students at both Emerson and Lincoln middle schools will be introduced to the challenge, which is intended to motivate students “to positive change in the way they treat others,” according to the foundation. Each school is working with students to prepare them for the day’s activities and is planning ongoing involvement during the year to “continue the chain reaction of kindness and compassion” the program seeks to create.

“Rachel’s Challenge” is named after Rachel Scott, the first person killed at Columbine High School in 1999.  The Scott family created the program based on her life and writing as a bullying and violence abatement effort.

For more information on “Rachel’s Challenge” visit the website www.rachelschallenge.org.

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