13 September 2007 | TheChronicleHerald.ca
'I'VE STOOD AROUND TOO LONG'
Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message
By Ian Fairclough - Valley Bureau
CAMBRIDGE - Two students at Central Kings Rural High School (in Nova Scotia) fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.
The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying....
'I'VE STOOD AROUND TOO LONG'
Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message
By Ian Fairclough - Valley Bureau
CAMBRIDGE - Two students at Central Kings Rural High School (in Nova Scotia) fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.
The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying....
Read the rest of the story in the links below. At least these kids have enough moral fibre to take the initiative to stand and denounce, albeit in their own way, what was obviously wrong and reprehensible. Kudos to them and to the rest of the student population for joining in.
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/858884.html
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/859436.html
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