{"id":39546,"date":"2014-03-13T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=39546"},"modified":"2014-03-13T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:00:42","slug":"sjindy-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/sjindy-17\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14march\/140314date.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14march\/bully.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><strong>St. Johns students aim to be <em>Heroes in the Hallways<\/em><\/strong>: <em>Nationally known speaker and author, Chad Varga joins Student Council members Jake Eaton and Dani Schaub and District Nurse Karla Palmer<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\nChad Varga, a nationally known speaker and former professional basketball player, knows what it takes to overcome adversity &#8211; including being bullied as a youth. His powerful message on the consequences of bullying, maintaining a positive attitude and relationships built on respect helped launch a new bullying prevention program, &#8220;Heroes in the Hallways,&#8221; which is being implemented at St. Johns Public Schools.<br \/>\nVarga spoke at St. Johns High School and St. Johns Middle School where he received enthusiastic receptions from students and staff alike. His presentation was coordinated by the SJHS\/SJMS Bullying Prevention Committee which has worked to develop &#8220;Heroes in the Hallways&#8221; programming.<br \/>\n&#8220;The theme is a national campaign, but it was voted on and chosen by SJHS Student Council members as the slogan for this district-developed initiative to end bullying,&#8221; says District Nurse Karla Palmer, MSN, RN, who serves as the committee chairperson. &#8220;The district is committed to stopping bullying in our schools, and we want all students to treat each other with respect &#8211; be a hero!&#8221;<br \/>\nIn addition to engaging Varga for the student assemblies, the committee developed &#8220;Heroes in the Hallways&#8221; posters and banners that feature an anti-bullying message and provide information for reporting bullying behavior via phone or by accessing a link on the district web site.<br \/>\nPosters are displayed in each classroom at both the high school and middle school, and on all primary-route busses. Banners are also in place at both buildings. Funding for all posters and banners at the high school was provided by the St. Johns Rotary Club; all posters at the middle school were funded by the Middle School Community Group.<br \/>\n&#8220;We appreciate the financial support made by these organizations,&#8221; Palmer says.<br \/>\nFor detailed information on <em>Heroes in the Hallways<\/em> visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjredwings.org\/hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.sjredwings.org\/hero\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Johns students aim to be Heroes in the Hallways: Nationally known speaker and author, Chad Varga joins Student Council members Jake Eaton and Dani Schaub and District Nurse Karla Palmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}