ROSSFORD – Rossford Junior High School eighth-grade students participated in "Challenge Day" on
Sept. 14.
The all-day event was led by Challenge Day leaders with the assistance of staff, community members,
student teachers, and Wood County Educational Service Center volunteers.
Challenge Days are high-energy programs in which youth and adult participants are guided through a series
of experiential learning processes.
The overall goals of the program are to increase personal power and self-esteem, to shift dangerous peer
pressure to positive peer support and to eliminate the acceptability of teasing, violence and all forms
of oppression.
Challenge Day programs are designed to unite the members of the school and/or community and to empower
them to carry the themes of the program back to the greater school population.
Events address the issues of violence, teasing, social oppression, racism, harassment, conflict
management, suicide, peer pressure, alcohol and drugs.