News: Miss America 2011 Teaches Vanity Lesson to Elementary School Kids

Miss American 2011: Teresa Scanlan

(Nov. 13, 2012) - Students at Frederick Douglass Elementary got a lesson in the dangers of vanity from a woman celebrated for her beauty earlier this month as Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011, read the book “Rainbow Fish” to the school’s three kindergarten classes and English Language Learner (ELL) students.

“Rainbow Fish” tells the tale of a fish with beautiful, shiny scales, who finds happiness only when he gives all but one of his scales to other fish so that they can shine too. “You have to be kind to other people to have them be kind to you,” Scanlan told the students as she completed the book.