Researchers found out that between five and ten percent of students stay at home to avoid bullying.

The data, according to surveys taken by Imagine Prep students, said that 55 percent of our school has experienced bullying, and that needs to change.

This year Mix-it-up-Day was different than last year’s. Some students think that coming to Mix-it-up-Day is dull, causing a drop in attendance on that day.

History teacher, Alexa Pupo, mentioned that lack of attendance is disheartening.

“It makes me so sad, it’s just a valuable conversation,” Pupo said.

Pupo also mentioned that Mix-it-up-Day has been here since Principal Mr. McComb came to Imagine Prep which was around 2008-2009,

“It’s run through a program named ‘Southern Poverty Law Center’ and Mr. McComb found it, and latched onto the idea of teaching tolerance, diversity and acceptance,” Pupo said.

Our school is small and the school has been working on having more kids. Each year the school gets more and more students. Pupo mentioned that since we have so many students now it is hard to find space big enough to accommodate large groups.

“One thing I really miss is having a lot of space and it’s really awesome that we have so many kids, because we’ve been working to have more kids, but like now the more people we have, the smaller spaces, and it used to be really nice when we had bigger spaces because it allowed us to have bigger activities,” Pupo said.

Even though some of us don’t see bullying, it sadly does happen at the Prep. Like mentioned before, 55 percent of the school experienced bullying, and Pupo said that bullying is different for each grade.

“As much as it pains me to say this, it’s in every grade level, it looks different. In 6th grade it’s more conversational, where maybe high school a lot of it is based on social media, texting conversations, or Snapchat and things like that. It’s still there, it just changes,” Pupo said.

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