The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

The Whitehall Middle School students participated in Montana's Do the Write Thing Challenge in January. This is a violence prevention program that encourages students to write about their experiences with various types of violence and to give ideas of how they can prevent violence in their own communities.

Do the Write Thing is an initiative of the National Campaign to Stop Violence and has received over a million student essays over the last 26 years. Many of these essays have been combined and then published into books about how violence affects the youth in our middle schools.

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