Posted on 12/10/07
For bullies, think pink
Defeating the bullies turns out to be easy - when bystanders rise up. Two teenage boys at a Nova Scotia high school have overcome a pack of bullies with an idea so simple and so powerful it may yet spread through North America, and perhaps beyond. They arranged for their schoolmates to wear pink in sympathy with a boy who was targeted by at least six bullies for wearing a pink shirt to school. Just two days after the bullying episode, roughly half of the 830 students at Central Kings Rural High School in the Annapolis Valley arrived decked out in pink. The bullies will not dare rear their heads again.
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