Oh, It’s Nothing Important
October 28, 2011
Filed under Student Life
Walking from my first period class, I thought to myself and even told a friend, “This is just a waste of time; I don’t know why the school’s wasting money on this.” My friend agreed. So, we entered the gym and waited for everyone to stroll in at their own pace. Students sat in the middle, left, and right bleacher sections until Mrs. Orr made one request, “I want to see how well our Galt High Warriors can listen to directions.” She asked everyone who sat on the left and right sides of the bleachers to just sit in the middle. By now, my patience was wearing thin. She gave students a minute to do so and finally announced the presence of the staff, administrators, and possibly the Mayor. Applause occurred and she, at last, introduced Stu Cabe, who has been touching thousands of students for ten years about ending bullying on and off campuses all around the country.
He started out with “Hey! How are you guys?” A low, mellow “Good” came out of most students’ mouths. “You sound like third graders! ‘Good’ How many of you didn’t get enough sleep last night?” Many raised their hands. “That is how you are doing!” It was a great way to start off the assembly since he had all of us laughing from that first line of his. He went on talking about his name. Since he has a very “odd” name, he explained the trouble he has always had with it and how he was always laughed at in school for what his parents had named him. Then he moved on to when he watched an “Animal Planet” show with his wife awhile ago.
It was about elephants being sent to a refuge in Africa. Since, the “smart people,” as he called them, couldn’t afford to send all the big elephants to the refuge, they’d decided to send just the little elephants instead. Six years later, the staff at the refuge called the “smart people” saying that their elephants were killing their endangered species of the white rhino. White rhinos are elephants’ only natural enemy. The elephants at the refuge had already killed thirty-three rhinos. To make a long story short, they sent six big elephants to the refuge. The big elephants ended up stopping the little elephants from killing the rhinos and taught them more lessons as they went along since the little ones would follow their steps.
Stu based bullying on the elephants. “Let’s say you get a text message saying bad things about someone, and if you delete it, you’re a big elephant. If you comment on it and forward it to ten of your friends, you’re a little elephant. I can tell you right now who the little and big elephants are,” he explained.
His main point was to be nice. That’s his main moral and he feels that he needs to spread the word. So it was very much worth my time and I’m sure a lot of others’ time, too, because now he has people wearing crowns to support his daughter being bullied; some people have even bought his inspirational bracelets and there are better attitudes to be seen, heard, and experienced all over campuses throughout this nation of ours. I hope he and his team of workers get around our country in time to make a difference. It’d also be awesome if he came to Galt High to speak every year or so in order to keep the great attitudes going.
—Angel Brittany
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