Interrupt Unkindness

In a school community with incredible stories of kindness and incredible examples of good friends, too many of our students experience meanness from peers. Certainly, we cannot expect our community to be an exception to the world with its incidents of unkindness. And yet, we aspire to be a nicer and nicer place, especially as children mature to the point of knowing just what hurt they may be causing.

We, at Fort Worth Country Day, have work to do to counter subtle meanness happening on our watch … and we, at FWCD, need you, at home, to join in the work. Sometimes, we will not get all the facts exactly right when we intervene or respond. Still, our intention will always be to help students. We are trying to help them develop what is really a superpower: the superpower of interrupting unkindness. In singing our Alma Mater, we invoke the “pride of red and blue”: That pride must include that we are at a school that lives up to its core value of kindness.

“Interrupting unkindness” is a project we first mentioned in August’s Convocation this year. It will be ongoing in each of the divisions in the second semester as well.