Two Nova Scotia students recently attracted worldwide attention when they came up with a rather innovative plan to stop bullying at their school. On the first day of class, a Grade 9 student in Central Kings Rural High School in Nova Scotia was bullied by a group of six to 10 classmates, calling him a homosexual for wearing a pink polo shirt and threatening to beat him up.
Grade 12 students Travis Price and David Shepherd heard about the incident and decided to do something about it. They encouraged fellow students at Central Kings Rural High to wear pink-coloured clothing to make the school a "sea of pink" two days later.
The duo went out and bought dozens of pink tank tops and distributed them to male students to wear. Around 400 students-half the school's population-dressed in pink and congregated in the school's lobby. When the bullied student [who's never been identified] arrived at school and saw his fellow students decked out in pink, it was described as an emotional and empowering moment.
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Grade 12 students Travis Price and David Shepherd heard about the incident and decided to do something about it. They encouraged fellow students at Central Kings Rural High to wear pink-coloured clothing to make the school a "sea of pink" two days later.
The duo went out and bought dozens of pink tank tops and distributed them to male students to wear. Around 400 students-half the school's population-dressed in pink and congregated in the school's lobby. When the bullied student [who's never been identified] arrived at school and saw his fellow students decked out in pink, it was described as an emotional and empowering moment.
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