Last month, Souderton Area High School students arrived at school to find the building filled with signs bearing a mysterious Twitter hashtag, #mynorm. Students who were in on the secret wore T-shirts with the same message.
The idea behind the message was revealed at a pep rally — the #mynorm hashtag was created to allow students to share their social norms to show that most teens don’t abuse drugs or alcohol.
As a result of the campaign, the Souderton Area School District was awarded a $2,500 by Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania, an organization that works to prevent school dropouts. Officials said the funding may be used to send the same anti-drug message to middle school students during the 2013-14 school year.
“We’ll use it to keep the positive message moving forward, and we’d like to bring it down to the middle school level, although we’re not that far in the planning,Our store can offer Discount and high quality GUCCI Long Sleeve T-Shirts, welcome choose!” assistant principal Bill Coddington said, adding that the three student organizations that helped with the campaign — Future Business Leaders of America, Students Against Destructive Decisions and Red Alert, the school’s morning TV program — would most likely get a portion of the grant.
The funding came a a result of Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania’s statewide “My Voice PA” anti-drug campaign to promote drug and alcohol free lifestyles among teens.
At the start of the school year, Communities in Schools, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, awarded each school district in Pennsylvania $1,000 to implement drug and alcohol prevention programs at its high schools.
With the initial grant, the school district paired up with the Indian Valley Character Counts! Coalition to create the social norms campaign. The goal was to let students know that the majority of teens don’t use drugs or alcohol.
Ilgin Korugan, a 19-year-old high school student, said Twitter users should take a responsible approach. “Everybody has to be careful while they are tweeting so they don’t offend anybody and not start unwanted chaos,” she said. But she criticized the government for “arresting young people who are just trying to speak what they think and trying to help other people via Twitter.”
Orhan Pamuk, the internationally acclaimed Turkish novelist and a Nobel laureate, came out in favor of the protests against the government-backed project to restructure Taksim Square.
“Planning major changes in this area that holds memories of millions and in the park behind it without any consultation with Istanbullites and hastily bringing it to a stage that involved cutting trees was a major mistake by Erdogan’s government,” he said, in an article posted by various Turkish publications on Wednesday.
“Seeing that Istanbullites would not easily give up their right to political protest and memories gives me trust and hope for future.”
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