Madison students take initiative on kindness
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HURON — Parents of school-age students are used to their children working on different assignments for the student’s respective classes.
But a group of third-grade students at the Madison 2-3 Learning Center has taken lessons learned outside of the classroom, built upon and expanded them into an awe-inspiring accomplishment.
And they did it on their own, with no adult guidance and for nothing but the grandest of ideals.
Over the months of March and April, first one, then two more, then a handful more and eventually the entire school made greeting cards and notes from construction paper, with the idea of presenting them to an ever-expanding list of those who just might be in need of a word of encouragement.
Like ripples on a pond, a good idea just kept growing and growing.
But to get the picture, one needs to go back to where it started.
“This past winter, we learned that two members of the Huron Public Schools family had been diagnosed with cancer,” said Shelly Fuller, a school social worker. “The Madison students raised more than $1,000 during February, which was ‘Random Acts of Kindness Month.’ The main message of the month was kindness and empathy,” she said.
In addition to the donations that the students brought in the form of loose change, students were encouraged to make cards for the families of those who were ill.