SeDoMoCha steps up for Bullying Prevention Month

By Stuart Hedstrom 
Staff Writer

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Throughout October students on both sides of the building at the SeDoMoCha School have been busy with activities for Bullying Prevention Month.
    “All students picked out and decorated a shoe design they wanted,” Guidance Counselor Jennifer Towle said about pupils in kindergarten through grade 8 as well, as all of the teachers and staff. The main school lobby glass wall was decorated with hundreds of student-designed paper shoe designs, either sneakers or high heels, which were placed around the words for a school-wide pledge, “Step up so no one gets stepped on.”

Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom

    STEPPING UP SO NO ONE GETS HURT — K-8 students at the SeDoMoCha School in Dover-Foxcroft each decorated a paper shoe as part of the activities for Bullying Prevention Month. The finished shoes are displayed in the main lobby, around the pledge, “Step up so no one gets hurt.”

    “One of the other activities we did was create mini-me’s,” Towle said. “They were supposed to design them to look like themselves.”
    Each pupil in the elementary and middle school created a paper replica. The mini-me’s included a speech bubble in which the creator responded to the question, “How can I make a difference?” Some of the responses for the figures stored in Towle’s office, which later will be placed around the building, included “being a good friend,” “standing up for others,” “being respectful” and “telling teachers when things are happening.”
    “They are going to stand with their mini-me’s and speech bubbles and the Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department is going to take a picture of them outside,” Towle said about an all-school picture scheduled for the afternoon of Nov. 1. She said plans are for the department to take the picture from a ladder truck, “so they can look down on all of us.”
    During the week of Oct. 7 Bullying Prevention Month observances included five days of wearing blue, the month’s designated color. Monday through Friday had a separate day for wearing blue accessories, hats, blue on the feet, blue jeans and shirts in the color.