GLSEN- Ready, Set, Respect

From the GLSEN website I chose the "Ready, Set, Respect" tool kit. This was interesting to me because it talks about  teaching respect within the elementary schools. Elementary school is the time where kids begin to learn how to respect each other, and to learn good and bad behaviors. If teachers teach young children what is good behavior, it will most likely stick with them throughout the rest of their life, if it is taught right. Elementary school children are young and naive, so there are not so many labels being said in school. I also believe that young children don't see color or difference as older children and adults do. The tool kit includes different activities that helps kids respect each other as well as provides different activities that shows kids that everyone is different. I can connect to this tool kit because when I was in elementary school, my school was involved in a program like this. Volunteers would come into classrooms and do some of these same activities. I can remember one day, the teacher would say "who likes peperoni pizza" and those kids would go  into one corner of the room. This activity was teaching kids that everyone is different. I really liked this tool kit, and I feel it could be used many times in elementary schools around the country.