A teacher has found a great way to educate students about bullying - through an illustration using two apples. What the teacher did has been posted in the Facebook page of Relax Kids Tamsworth, a children's program and shared by more than 180,000 people as of this writing.
Metro reported that the Rosie Dutton, coach of Relax Kids Tamsworth, used two apples to show her students the effects of bullying, both the physical effect and the emotional effect. Before showing the two apples to her students, she dropped one apple repeatedly on the floor but both apples looked normal on the outside. The students did not know that she dropped one apple.
Talking To The Apples
According to Huffington Post, Dutton then proceeded to tell her students how she disliked the apple that she had dropped on the floor. Dutton told her students that she thought this apple was "disgusting, it was a horrible colour and the stem was just too short."
She then asked her students to call this apple names. "Some children looked at me like I was insane, but we passed the apple around the circle calling it names, 'You're a smelly apple', 'I don't even know why you exist', 'You've probably got worms inside you'."
In contrast, Dutton passed the other apple and she and her students spoke kind words to it. They called it "lovely", said it had "beautiful skin" and said it had a beautiful color.
The Inside Of The Apples
Daily Mail reported that after comparing the two apples which still looked the same, Dutton cut the two apples open. It was then that the children saw the difference, as the apple they spoke kind words to was "was clear, fresh and juicy inside" while the one they called names "was bruised and all mushy inside."
Dutton called it a "lightbulb moment" for the children, saying that the children understood the inward effect of bullying. Dutton said that unlike apples, people can prevent bullying and children can be taught "to stand up for each other and to stop any form of bullying." Dutton said that one girl in her class objected to say unkind words to one of the apples.
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