“Buddy Bench” Given To Covert Schools

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Covert Elementary School now has a Buddy Bench. The Buddy Bench is a place for students who feel lonely on the playground to make new friends. Students from many southwestern Michigan schools wrote in and this time Covert Public Schools was awarded a Buddy Bench from Mid-West Family Broadcasting and Honor Credit Union. Mariah Boss, who is the social services counselor at the school, spearheaded a student letter writing campaign to compete for the bench. She spoke with WSJM News.

“We know those feelings of being lonely at recess, feeling like you don’t have somebody to play with, and so I tried to use their own emotions and talk about those feelings and how we feel when we’re sad and upset and what it feels like when we do have a friend to play with and someone asks us,” Boss said.

The Buddy Bench movement is a nationwide campaign that started in 2013 in Pennsylvania.