I'm very excited that we get to go through with Challenge Day @ IDCI. I think it looks amazing and it seems like it can have an enormous effect on the way that students treat other students, and just overall how the student body interacts with eachother. It creates a group of students who are all working towards developing a safer environment in their school.
I think we need to be careful when selecting the 100. Obviously people automatically assume that we need to have stereotypes like "emos" and "jocks", and "mean girls". News flash people, that is TV. On "If You Really Knew Me" that do intense planning to make sure that the TV SHOW has the proper amount of entertainment value. This is REAL LIFE. The purpose of Challenge Day is to break down the barriers of those that we would think to be "average" people. We are giving "average" people the chance to share their unique story with some of their peers. I think that the selection needs to be random. There should be some from every grade. Someone in class mentioned this may give senior students a chance to offer advice to junior students and I agree with that. I think everything needs to be random. Obviously we know people from grade 12 leadership will be there but I think even that selection needs to be RANDOM. We need to keep REAL LIFE real, and stop trying to achieve stereotypes from the tv show. Just because you're not a jock, and emo or a mean girl doesn't mean you don't have lots of problems going on in your life.
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