White Ribbon Week

The white ribbons are on every door throughout campus as the school in the midst of Disability Awareness Week this week. For Best Buddies advisor Julia Chalker, it’s an opportunity for the school to gain more perspective about varying disabilities and become more acceptive of differences. “The whole school gets a chance to look at how everyone has differences, everyone has strengths and weak...

Senior Richard McNamara believes Disability Awareness Week is a way to not only increase awareness for the different abilities of people on campus, but to also encourage others to be friendly towards those dealing with disabilities. “Disability awareness is to help kids with special needs,” McNamara said. “It’s really, really important that the school gets involved.” For McNamara, ev...

Junior Rylee McHenry represents Best Buddies, an international club organization encouraging cooperation with students with disabilities, as president and as an advocate for raising awareness for disabilities on campus. “Awareness helps others accept each other’s differences and lets it highlight friendships and make it all better,” McHenry said. For McHenry, disabilities are commonly seen in...

Junior and vice president of Best Buddies, Kendall Metcalf believes Disability Awareness Week will serve as an important step towards opening the school and community up about disabilities by familiarizing students with each other’s differences. “Disability awareness is just teaching kids about all the disabilities they have, no matter how big or how small they are. It ranges from autism to even dyslexia,...