Mineola High School Students Hold Anti-Bullying Workshop

Third and fourth-grade students at in the Mineola School District recently participated in an anti-bullying workshop led by the ninth-grade upperclassmen from the .

As part of a service-learning project, the high school students organized a complete lesson plan centered on anti-bullying, read a book with student and led discussion groups on how to handle a bully.

Much of the workshop focused on being an “upstander” – a person who speaks up for someone they witness being bullied, rather than of a bystander, and served as reinforcement to anti-bullying tactics discussed throughout the year in the classroom.