By Mary O’KEEFE

Crescenta Valley High School recognized Kindness Week by incorporating the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. CVHS Student Senate subcommittee members met to discuss what they could do to spread the meaning of the word kindness. Members discussed the issues they wanted to cover and how they would share the information they learned.

“It all merged into videos for elementary school students,” said Asante Guzik, a CVHS senior and member of the subcommittee.

They worked together to come up with four questions for high school students: 1) How I am kind to myself? 2) How do I spread kindness? 3) How do you respond when someone is being kind to you? 4) Describe a time when someone was nice to you.

The answers from students ranged from reflections on how others were kind to them in the past to how they spread kindness. The question on how they were kind to themselves included how they relax, how they give themselves a break.

The videos included students who had been awarded recognition in the PTA Reflections contest, including in the areas of dance, art and song writing.
The takeaway from the four videos was how small acts of kindness can include helping a student pick up a folder that fell during class, sharing lunch with a student who forgot their food at home and befriending a student who was new in elementary school.
“And always, always, always say ‘thank you,’” added Jesse Guzik, a CVHS ninth grader and member of the subcommittee.