Be Kind Week is an event that Liberty showcases every year. The goal of Be Kind Week is to help lift the spirits of the student body, and inspire people to treat others with kindness. This year, Be Kind Week fell on the dates November 11-15.
With a large project like Be Kind Week, it really helps when you have people who truly care about the community. The co-chairs this year were Lynleigh Gartner (11), Colin Ashby (10), and Aniyah Wooten (11).
“Be Kind Week is really important because you are spreading kindness around the whole school,” Gartner said.
“Everyone’s got stuff going on that we don’t know about. You just have to be a person to spread positivity and make someone’s day,” Ashby said.
“[Be Kind Week] means a lot to me because I want kindness to be spread around the school,” Wooten said. “I want to make more ways for people to think that ‘I can be the reason someone comes to school.’”
Every year during kindness week, each teacher is given 1-2 shirts to hand out to the students they think are the most kind. There were about 75 students that received a kindness shirt. Three of those students were Addie Schultz (9), Marykate Stroud (10), and Clara Walker (12).
“I think that it is really good for people to recognize that being kind is something you can do throughout the year,” Schultz said.
“Kind Week is about sharing your kindness with everyone, and not just in one week, but altogether,” Stroud said.
“It’s an opportunity to be kind and to celebrate the people who are kind,” Walker said.
During Be Kind Week, each day featured a spirit day. A handful of kindness shirt recipients were asked what their favorite day was. Ashby said his favorite was Veterans Day.
Hillgartner, Schultz, Ashlyn Genta (9), and Stroud chose PJ Day as their favorite spirit day.
Two people, Wooten and Avery Huebbe (10), said that their favorite day was Twin Day.
