On Thursday afternoon, the students of Turn of River Middle School's Rachel's Challenge club said thank you to one of any school's offer under-appreciated and unsung heroes: the bus driver!
"We've done this every year for the past 3 years," said Sharon Wade, club director and main office administrative assistant. "It's a part of all the different appreciation days we do and this is our final one for the year."
The kids will take the time to say "thank you," in different ways to the hard workers throughout the school, like its cafeteria workers and maintenance people. For the school's 20 bus drivers, the students made cards and plates of cookies and the entire school signed a banner students held up for buses approaching for pickup. That banner will be brought to and hung in the lobby of First Student, the bus company for the school.
Rachel's Challenge is a program grown from the loss of Rachel Joy Scott, a victim of the Columbine school shooting whose "life was dedicated to being kind," Wade said.
"This is about spreading kindness and being nice people," she said. "The program has really shifted our school's culture in a big way. We're known as the school of kindness."
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