First, what is Peer to Peer? Peer to Peer is a during-school program that everyone attends that teaches kids how to be nice when saying negative things. For example, when someone is taking your friends seat, say “Sorry, someone is sitting here, but I can help you find another seat.” instead of saying, “Don’t sit there! This seat is taken.” High school students came to Mansion to teach the students.
Second, what do they do? The high schoolers used a story about a kid named Jerry who had a horrible day because people were being mean to him verbally. They also had a paper Jerry. Every time people, such as his family, teachers, etc, said something mean to Jerry, they ripped off a piece of the paper Jerry. Next, they broke kids into groups to fix Jerry’s heart. Each group got a paper heart and some bandaids. Kids had to change the words that the people said into nicer things. Every time they changed a word, they put a bandaid on one of the cracks drawn onto the heart. Finally, after every group fixed their heart, each kid wrote their strengths and weaknesses on a thin piece of paper. They folded the bands and attached the bands together and hung the string of bands on the wall.
Finally, why is Peer to Peer a thing? Well, I think it is used to teach kids to be nicer to each other and to remember each other’s feelings. Also it teaches us that there are ways for all of us to treat each other with respect. Finally, it teaches kids how to defend themselves from un-positive words and actions. In my opinion the program was a success.