Gwinnett H.S. students start R-word campaign today

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Today, Mill Creek High School students in Gwinnett County collected pledges from 130 students to not use the R-word “retarded.” Until Friday, students in the Best Buddies club, a club that focuses on the interaction between regular education students and students with special needs, will continue to collect pledges and signing a huge banner to show support during lunchtime and before school.

By Wednesday afternoon, so many students signed the banner that six more feet of paper needed to be added to accommodate signatures.

Best Buddies members want their classmates to be informed about the impact that their peers with disabilities have had on them, said teacher Jennifer Rolfes. So, they encourage their classmates to remove slang words from their vocabularies that may hurt someone else.

Thank you Best Buddies at Mill Creek High School. Keep up the good work!

      

If your school is working on the R-word campaign and have an interesting story to share, please e-mail Wendy.Bigham@SpecialOlympicsGA.org.