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Girl Scouts in Troop 3499 decided to bust a stereotype to earn their “Speak Out” badge, and they knew just what to do.

“It’s like a myth or something that kids are cruel to other kids,” said Abby Reinke, a fourth-grader at Meiklejohn Elementary School in Arvada. “We wanted to prove that kids could be nice to each other.”
Mean behavior is something that bothered all of them.

“We wanted to stop bullying and name-calling,” said fourth-grader Elizabeth Guiducci.

The Scout leader in charge of the project, Deb Guiducci, was surprised to hear this. After all, organizations in Colorado have invested heavily in slowing the spread of mean, including an $8.6 million investment in a bullying-prevention initiative in 2005 by the Colorado Trust.

“I asked how many of them had experienced this, and they all had,” Guiducci said. “Everyone told different stories of things kids had done to them.”

Her daughter, Elizabeth, said it was mostly things like name-calling.

“It doesn’t really feel good, and I don’t like it,” she said Thursday during lunch in the school cafeteria.

The Scouts wanted to create a week of activities focused on being kind and friendly, designed to encourage kids to make new friends and help one another.

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