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National Bullying Prevention Month, a campaign founded by the PACER Center’s National Bullying Prevention Center, celebrated its 10th anniversary in October.
The campaign’s goal is to unite communities to educate and inform others about bullying prevention, according to the website.
Locally, Goshen Middle School celebrated the month a little early, in mid-September, with a program called ReDo after a push from Assistant Principal Wendy Flynn and a grant from the Clermont County Mental Health and Recovery Board.
ReDo is a program run by the Violence Free Coalition of Warren County that works with students in middle and high school to “look beyond stereotypes, build respect and put an end to bullying,” according to the website.
Last year was Flynn’s first year as assistant principal. In that role, she dealt with many of the discipline issues.
“Our students didn’t have a good way to deal with their own personal low self-esteem and how they were interacting with their peers that had similar issues,” Flynn said, adding that she felt if students realized they had more in common with each other than not, they might respect each other.
She had heard of the coalition and when she reached out, they told he