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My Favourite Colour Today is Pink!
Filed Under (Community) by Mrs. Braidwood on April 14, 2010 and tagged awareness, bully, bullying, pink, responsibility
Today is Pink Shirt Day! Depending on where you live, you may or may not have heard about this extraordinary day. It all began in September 2007 in the small town of Cambridge, Nova Scotia. A Grade 9 student wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school and became the target of threats and insults that were linked back to the colour he chose to wear. Part of the harassment included being called “gay” and being informed that he was going to be beat up.
Two Grade 12 students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, were outraged when they found out how this boy had been treated. But what could they do? Well, to start with they went to a local discount store and bought 50 pink shirts of various styles. Then, through mainly their online connections like email, they contacted numerous friends and told them their plan. When the students who had harassed the Grade 9 boy arrived at school the next day, they were faced with a “sea of pink“. Not only were there the 50 pink shirts being worn, but others had purposely outfitted themselves in pink as well. What could the bullies do now?
A clear statement had been made and these particular bullies have made very little noise since. News of what David and Travis had done spread across Canada and the rest of North America pretty quickly. It was such a powerful example of what can be done to stand up against bullying behaviour. This year, schools on other continents are holding their own Pink Shirt Day as well.
Stay tuned for more information about what we will be doing today to help spread the word that “bullying is never OK”. For more information, please visit the Pink Shirt Day site.
Did your school hold a Pink Shirt Day or something similar?
Do you have any other ideas about what we can do to promote awareness, understanding and openness about bullying?
14 Responses to “My Favourite Colour Today is Pink!”
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April 14th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Hi mrs braidwood I totally forgot about this and when I was looking at lomdon drugs I didn’t have enough time because it was closing so yah I didn’t get my pink shirt cause of that.
April 14th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Ahhh, I liked today. My pink shirt read “My cat loves me”. Suprisingly i got a few positive comments! I think it was great of the two boys to do that. That would probably make the bullied kid feel good.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Down with bullying! I love Pink Day and I hope this is a message to all bullies.
But I don’t understand why they bullied that guy for wearing a pink shirt?
(PS nice t-shirt ryan)
April 15th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Where I live, Pink Shirt Day is where we celebrate the teachers that got lay off from their jobs. Since California is losing money, many people are getting lay off. I think it’s every Friday or one special day of the year. This story is very interesting. It was kind of nice for the two boys to help that other boy that was getting teased. It reminds me of this story I heard yesterday in the gym. A girl from Ireland was getting teased and committed suicide. It was kind of sad when I heard it. I felt sorry for this girl. It looks like David and Travis changed something in the world just by doing something little.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Hello everyone! I wore pink yesterday. I like to wear pink and stand up against bullying! I too, do not understand why that boy was bullied for wearing pink! I don’t think it was a big deal and pink is just a colour!
April 15th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I don’t really like wearing pink. I do really want bullying to stop. I think bullying is not good a at home or school or any where. I think the video that we watched with the girls talking about the girl that was getting a drink is really mean. When they call her a Loser and Geek that was really disrespectful and hurtful.Talking behind her back is verbal bullying.
April 15th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I think it’s great that David Shepherd and Travis Price stood up and did something to stop bullying.
April 15th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
That is pretty interesting how 50 people came to school wearing pink! That must have had a pretty powerful effect on the bullies.
April 15th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I wore a bright pink shirt.Like Ryan I got a lot of good comment’s.
April 16th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I thought that this was a great idea the first time I heard about it! If I had any pink shirts of my own, I would’ve worn it… but, it was announced a bit too late (the day before it happened) so I didn’t quite have time to go and buy one. =(
April 16th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Nice JOb! That is really cool. Pink Shirt Day! Thats nice that you guys care about people getting bullyed!
April 17th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Of course my class/school did pink shirt day! Pink shirt day was really fun! I liked doing the pictures for the animoto video! Bullying is very unessesary (I think).
April 17th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Bullies are not the way to go! I think the pink shirt day is a important day across Canada! Just because someone wear’s pink does not mean that there gay!
I hope that everyone gets the message that your sending across to them!
(P.S The Pink shirt day was amazing!)
April 27th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Bullies is a very bad problem. If you are getting bullied tell your mom or dad or a teacher. Don’t be frightened when the bully told you not to tell anyone.