‘Each of you is a gift to others’

In the wake of Connecticut shooting, Atlanta educators reach out to students

By: Cass County Life - Texarkana Gazette

Staff photo by Neil Abeles Atlanta Elementary Principal Dianne Whatley holds the brightly wrapped present, which she told the second-graders brings excitement and is filled with love as they should consider themselves to be. “You are gifts yourselves to others,” she said. “Be fill...

Staff photo by Neil Abeles Atlanta Elementary School teacher Bonita Brown gives out Christmas presents, which are empty in one respect but are filled with love and meant to represent the children, who are also gifts.

The brightly wrapped Christmas present Principal Dianne Whatley was holding before the eager eyes of the second-graders was not what it seemed. It was empty.

“Not so,” she said to the children. “It’s full of love. It’s a gift. You know how exciting gifts are. E...

Published: 12/26/2012