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Vote for School Safety
Safe Schools Week will be October 19-25, 2008
third week of October is set aside as Kentucky Safe
Schools Week, we pause to applaud the exemplary
efforts of many schools to enhance their school
safety and to encourage others across this great
Commonwealth to do the same. In this national
election year, many will “choose” to vote for a
president as voting is a choice. On a
daily basis, communities, educators, school staffs
parents and students make choices that impact the
safety of our schools. To follow this theme, we
have entitled Kentucky’s 2008 Safe Schools Week,
“Vote for School Safety”.
Kentucky’s educators are working hard to provide the
safe, healthy culture and environment necessary for
their students to learn because we know that
students must feel safe and secure in order to learn
at their highest capacity. To further that goal,
during this week, KCSS will make a special plea that
students, parents, educators, and the community make
a commitment to choose to
“Vote for School Safety!”
Come, join us in this effort!
Kentucky Center for School Safety
will sponsor or provide:
- Statewide Art (Poster)
Contest
- Five days of safety themes
- Lesson ideas and
classroom activities
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Community Involvement Activities
-
Safety Handouts on various topics
- Online Pledge Against School
Violence
- And
introducing NEW! Online Pledge
against Bullying
“Schools are under extreme pressures to produce and
sustain academic growth, which is best accomplished
in a safe and healthy learning environment. While
caring educators all across the state are striving
to do that, they also recognize that there is still
so much more to be done” says Jon Akers, Executive
Director of the Kentucky Center for School Safety.
Akers continues by emphasizing that “Safe Schools
Week affords us the opportunity to place a renewed
focus on awareness, education and prevention as they
relate to school safety.” “To that end,” he says,
“School safety is everyone’s responsibility and we,
therefore, encourage everyone to
“Vote for School Safety”.
Kentucky Safe Schools Week
is held in conjunction with
America’s Safe Schools
Week sponsored by the National School Safety
Center. Each year, several states throughout the
nation take this week to heighten awareness of the
need for a renewed focus on school safety.
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