How does the Extra Special Super Kid Program enhance and show community involvement?

• Community, at large, is encouraged to share with school, deeds children have performed in their neighborhoods, in their churches, scouting programs, etc.
• Featured newspaper articles have promoted the "Super Kid" Program in a way that civic organizations and public officials have offered their assistance. K-Mart Department Store established a recognition incentive for Sampson Super Kids. Many letters have been received from various individuals from all avenues of life complimenting and supporting the program.
• The program has generated an awareness of good citizenship which has resuited in students performing many acts of kindness in the community. A student pulled a small child out of the middle of a busy street. Another student found a small child wandering around the neighborhood, apparently lost. The student brought the child to school and consequently, the child was reunited with its parents.
• The Extra Special Super Kid Program encourages students, teachers, parents and community to accent the positive. To look for good in all people and in all things. To say NO!, to negative ideas and attitudes.
• The awareness of taking care of ones own as well as others belongings has benefited students and school. Children are becoming more respectful of their environment. Fewer instances of stealing and fighting have been recorded since inception of the "Extra Special Super Kid" Program.