Spring Branch ISD Featured News

Students and staff members across Spring Branch ISD took part this week in Red Ribbon Week activities designed to spread awareness about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse while promoting healthy minds and bodies.

Red Ribbon Week this year will be observed by schools from Monday, Oct. 21, to the end of October. Many schools encouraged students and teachers to dress up and have fun activities this week, Oct. 21-25.

Since its beginning in 1985, the annual National Red Ribbon Campaign has been a part of student and family lives, touching millions of people around the world.

The anti-drug campaign was organized in response to the publicized death of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena. Angered and upset parents and students in cities and in towns nationwide began wearing the Red Ribbon as a symbol of a commitment to raise awareness of the agent’s killing the destruction caused by drugs.

Since 1985, the nation has struggled with waves of separate drug epidemics, from crack cocaine to opioid abuse, addiction and related overdose deaths.

Spring Branch ISD elementary campuses displayed school spirit and fun this week while teaching and guiding students to make healthy choices.

At Woodview Elementary, for example, the Student Council and Communities in School (CIS) staff members found fun ways to bring awareness to the dangers of drugs and alcohol through daily themes: 

• Red Clothes Day – We are all against drugs!
• Wear Clothes Backwards or Inside Out Day – Drugs take you backwards!
• Crazy Hat or Hair Day – I’d be crazy to hurt my body!
• Mix & Match Clothes Day – Don’t get mixed up in drugs!
• Pajamas Day – Dream big and be drug free!

At Hollibrook Elementary, staff members and students organized a terrific red-shirt focused week that included a Superheroes theme. Students dressed up in costumes that ranged from a red-costumed Spiderman to red shoes, shirts and stockings. Stunning campus hallway decorations and posters reinforced theme days and Red Ribbon activities.

Learn more about the National Red Ribbon Campaign.