Photo by Jason DeMoeHannah Gordy, Allie Nyblom, Erin Sullivan, and Avery Jorgenson pose next to a freshly hung Upstanders banner on the morning of the effort’s launch at the high school.
It began with an assignment in a Childhood Education class. FLASH student Clara Olson was tasked with presenting to the class on the topic of anti-bullying. By the time she had thoroughly researched the subject, she knew that she needed to take her efforts beyond just an assignment.
“There was an anti-bullying campaign called ‘Spread the Word to End the Word’ in Forest Lake, but it hadn’t been active in about four years,” she said. “I knew that bullying was still a problem and I wanted to kick-start an effort to address it schoolwide.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Shortly after Olson’s class presentation, the Forest Lake Times ran an article about race relations in the school. That piece, teamed with some words being exchanged regarding the
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