EDUCATION NEWS Shows Lynae Kiers, sixth-grade teacher, with students.
Oblivious Kindness
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Cassandra ou know you are in a good As I entered the sixthKay place when kindness is grade classroom, excitement receiving exhibited in so many ways. and joy greeted me warmly. her lost cell Kindness is evident in the hallways, Mrs. Kiers was teaching phone. classrooms, and office of our school. the students how to make It continues to spread through the a mini toque, and I found gymnasium, playground, kitchen, Cassi full of smiles. I asked parking lot, and even online. It comes if she recognized this cell from our teachers, support staff, phone, and with a surprised students, and parents. Kindness is and pleasant look, she said, thought up, spontaneous, intentional, “Why, yes!" She didn't even and even occasionally “oblivious.” know she had lost it. Cassi “Oblivious” kindness was was completely oblivious to expressed through a little story the kindness, although she of a lost cell phone. A young ECS was very grateful for it. student brought in a lost phone she Have you ever wondered found in the parking lot. I took a how much “oblivious kindness” picture of it. I was in the middle of is being bestowed upon us drafting an email to our parents and each and every day? Do we students when the phone buzzed go through our days grinding on the surface of my desk. I opened through the challenges and it and scanned the notification pitfalls, not even aware of the feed on the locked screen. It was kindness extended to us? Issabella Rodas, an email addressed to “CASSI.” This story reminds me of the ECS student who found and It was in all caps, and I could just how much God loves us as brought in the hear the excitement in these kids’ He has bestowed upon us cell phone. voices — even in their emails to kindness beyond all measure, each other. I also knew right away and we are “oblivious” to it must belong to our Cassi, a sixth grader so much of it. — Submitted by Steven Gabrys who is just full of boundless energy and joy. Principal, College Heights Christian School
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Alberta Adventist News
MARCH 2021
