Student Project at Southeast Middle School Featured in National Magazine

A Rachel’s Challenge project at Southeast Middle School will be featured in an upcoming issue of Techniques, the main publication for the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE).

Rachel’s Challenge promotes kindness and works to stop bullying.

In October, Southeast students in Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), a national organization for students in career and technical education programs, placed orange hearts (the color of anti-bullying) with positive quotes on each student locker, teacher door, and throughout common areas in the school on the morning of the school’s Rachel's Challenge assemblies.

The hearts meant enough to students and teachers that they kept them throughout the year, said Jenny L. Watson, who teaches Family and Consumer Sciences and who is the advisor for both the FCCLA and the Friends of Rachel Club.

“I found/saw many hearts even at the end of the school year inside lockers, in the cover of student notebooks, on teachers' filing cabinets, etc.!” Watson said. “This project was also part of one of our students' competitive events from the recent FCCLA National Leadership Conference in San Antonio.”