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Boulder's Mesa Elementary adds 'buddy bench' to encourage inclusiveness
- yawz 12y agoI can definitely see the good side of this initiative. However I'm afraid there's also a bad side to this as children can be cruel to any sign of weakness or difference. I think parents have to support this initiative and talk to their children about the importance of including etc. I'm definitely curious how satisfactory the results are going to be.
- curtis 12y agoI think it's interesting that they've recruited kids to be advocates for using the bench in the intended way. Kids can certainly be cruel, but I think they are just as capable of enforcing positive norms as negative ones. So maybe that's how this will work out here.