Noughts and Crosses

Remember

• Treat everyone fairly and don’t make someone feel bad for being different.
• Treat everyone as you would wish to be treated yourself.
• Get to know people before you judge them.
• Respect other people in the community, what ever their difference.
• Think before you speak, and try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes.

Being treated badly because of being different feels very hurtful inside. This poem by Gordon Lamont is about that kind of hurt:

Grazes heal, scars outside disappear,
Soreness and bruises fade away.
In hours, days or even weeks
New skin grows so that
No one knows where the hurt has been.

Hurt feelings, scars inside unseen,
The hurt remains and even grows
For hours, days, weeks and maybe years.
It hides in us, locked in a secret place
To which we only have the key.