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Townsend Press: Playwrights Stand Up and Against Bullying!

My students need 30 copies of Bullying in Schools, a playwriting and prop designing book and art supplies to write and perform an original play: Stand Up and Against Bullying!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Luxton's classroom raised $301

This project is fully funded

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My Students

School should be the one place students always feel safe in; unfortunately, the reality is far different. Students today, both inner city and suburban, face bullying in ways other generations could never have imagined. And all are a means to one end--to intimidate and humiliate the victim.

Currently, my 6th grade inner city students face or have witnessed all of the above manifestations of bullying; but as educators, it is our responsibility to teach them bullying and violence are never a means to an end.

My students are wonderfully bright and compassionate and only need the skills and strategies to combat bullying in intelligent ways. They are our future to a kinder and more loving world.

My Project

I would like to use Townsend Press' Bullying in Schools as a starting point to discuss bullying and give my students, like those in the book, a forum to tell their own stories; in addition, I will include real life examples of the consequences of bullying: the tragic deaths of two local children who both ended their own lives as a result of relentless campaigns of bullying by their peers. My project proposal for "Stand Up and Against Bullying!" is to involve my students in the creative process of playwriting; we are currently reading Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," and students themselves see examples of bullying between the feuding Montagues and Capulets. This is a wonderful segue to writing their own anti-bullying play. Using the playwriting and prop designing books, as well as the creative arts materials, students will write and design the set for the play, "Standing Up and Against Bullying!" Students will promote their message of compassion to two local elementary schools.

The younger children are, the easier it is to mold their character; older students are passed along to us and it is more challenging to change who they are; but like with anything, fruition takes time.

The discussion, creation, and performing of this play will alter my students' perceptions on the very real damage bullying inflicts on its victims. To those young students in the audience, this play will impact their lives by making them more accepting and loving: our hope to end bullying.

Ms. Luxton Van Sickle Academy Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bullying in Schools • AKJ Books $1.00 30 $30.00
Cool Sets & Props • AKJ Books $20.03 1 $20.03
T SHIRT ADULT MEDIUM WHITE • School Specialty Inc. $3.85 10 $38.50
So You Want to Be a Playwright? • AKJ Books $15.50 1 $15.50
MARKER CRAYOLA FABRIC CLASS PACK OF 80 • School Specialty Inc. $36.57 1 $36.57
T SHIRT ADULT LARGE WHITE • School Specialty Inc. $3.85 12 $46.20
MASK PLASTIC FEMALE • School Specialty Inc. $3.41 5 $17.05

Materials cost

$203.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $13.83

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$255.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.13

Total project goal

$300.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $300.87

5 Donors

-$114.06

Donations toward project cost

-$96.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.11

match offer

-$186.81

Match offer toward project cost

-$158.79

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.02

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