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High school group encourages random acts of kindness
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Team captains, club presidents, teachers and others will be distributing green ribbons to students to wear on their lanyard when they perform a random act of kindness at Johnson High. - photo by Scott Rogers | The Times
A student organization at Johnson High School is encouraging classmates — all 1,300 of them — to show a little kindness in the hallways this spring.The National Honor Society, stemming from a desire to do something positive in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting this past December, decided to launch “1,300 Random Acts of Kindness,” a campus-based initiative to encourage students to lend a helping hand to fellow Knights. “We can’t just focus on whether or not we can control guns,” said Abby Stewart, a Johnson senior and president of the honor society. “We need to focus on our schools and the spirit inside of our schools and turn them from this violence to this kindness.”What Stewart and honor society adviser Ann Brunk came up with was the acts of kindness campaign.