Rachel's Challenge comes to Liberty High School

On October 5th, Liberty High School students will have the opportunity to become a part of Rachel's Challenge. LHS is one of four schools in Sullivan County to participate, and the program is sponsored by Sullivan County BOCES.

Rachel's challenge is a program to help prevent teen violence and is based on the life and writings of Rachel Scott. Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Her acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries have become the foundation for one of the most life-changing school programs in America.

The program challenges students to treat others with kindness and compassion to make a "permanent" culture change in their school. The mission of Rachel’s Challenge is "to inspire, equip and empower every person to create a permanent positive culture change in their school, business and community by starting a chain reaction of kindness and compassion."

Immediately after the Columbine tragedy, her father Darrell began to speak around the nation and used writings and drawings from Rachel's many diaries to illustrate the need for a kinder, more compassionate nation. Today, Darrell and thirty other speakers honor Rachel's life by reaching the nation with Rachel's simple but profound message: “You just may start a chain reaction.”

This program includes video/audio footage of Rachel's life and the Columbine tragedy which hold students spell-bound during a one-hour school presentation that motivates them to be the positive change in the way they treat others and want to also be treated by others.

The program will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Liberty High School auditorium. For more information about the Rachel’s Challenge Initiative please log onto www.rachelschallenge.org