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Davis Elementary Earns No-Hate Banner

The Anti-Defamation League initiative is gaining ground in Northeast Cobb.

isn't the first school in the to receive recognition as a No Place for Hate school, but it is one of the first. And it was the first Thursday.

We showed you the visit Thursday of the Anti-Defamation League's Holli Levinson to to for the 2011-12 school year, but Davis was her first stop that morning.

got the in Cobb County, as East Cobb Patch reported.

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The application process alone represents a serious commitment of time and effort to teaching kids to accept differences, defuse conflicts and stop bullying, so the adults and the kids at each school deserve credit for taking the problem of bullying seriously.

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