One hundred Barnegat High School students participated in a day of increasing personal power and self-esteem and learning how to shift dangerous peer pressure to positive peer support. Students in grades nine through 12 along with school district staff members and volunteers from the community came together for a full day of large group exercises and small group conversations to address teasing, violence and different forms of oppression during the Challenge Day held on April 4.

The Challenge Day Program is designed to unite the members of the school or community and to empower them to carry the…