Northwestern School had an assembly for all middle school and high school students about mental health with speaker Eric Kline on Feb. 21.
Kline presented the first of three sessions with the next ones being in March and May, not April because of standardized testing. Kline prepared his first session for students about their mental health, focusing on how a lot of people think that they are not enough if they do not fit into current standards set today.
An Aberdeen Central and Northern State University standout student and basketball player, Kline started with saying how when he was growing up, he thought that if he good at basketball, was popular, and smart, then he would be enough, that his worth had to be earned through achievement.
His message to students was about how wrong that is, that it does not matter what someone does, how liked they are in their school, or how smart they are. Everyone is already enough how they are right now in this moment.
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