‘Alvirne Compliments’ promotes school pride

A social program that began at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, recently reached Alvirne High School through the creation of an “Alvirne Compliments” Facebook page. The original program has spread to at least 56 colleges and universities, including Brown, Stanford and Columbia, and now is making students at Alvirne feel better about themselves. The program is a Facebook page on which people can message the account with a compliment for an Alvirne student and it will be reviewed and published anonymously. The account is set up as the account of a person, not a page, so that individuals can be tagged in posts. The Facebook page was created on Dec. 17 and has remained active since then with increasing numbers of posts. The account is already friends with more than 600 students and is still growing. Senior Stephanie Martin thought the page was a good way “to promote Bronco pride and boost the attitude of the students.” It isn’t unusual to hear discussions about specific compliments throughout the day, and there is generally a certain amount of speculation over who sent which of the comments.