LEONARD, Texas — A small Pre-K class in Leonard ISD, about an hour northeast of Dallas in Fannin County, is getting a big lesson in kindness this Valentine’s Day.
Students in Mrs. Ashworth’s class and others at Leonard Elementary launched a “Kindness Across the Country” challenge. A simple Facebook post invited people to send kindness postcards from their hometowns. The project quickly grew into something much bigger.
Soon, packages and letters began arriving from across the United States and even from countries as far away as Peru, Australia and Germany. Each new delivery helped students connect places on a classroom map, showing just how far their message of kindness had traveled…