Today was Pink Shirt Day in Saskatchewan. Our city – from the Mayor to office workers to teachers and students showed their opposition to bullying by wearing pink shirts. Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 in Nova Scotia. A grade 9 boy wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school. He was bullied by some fellow students who called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up. Two grade 12 students heard about the harassment and decided to take action. They went to a discount store and bought 50 pink shirts – everything from t-shirts to tank tops. They then went on-line, offering their classmates a pink shirt to carry a message of bullying would not be tolerated. Not only did they find 50 students to wear the shirts, others students wore their own pink shirts to school the next day. It was a very emotional moment for the young student who had been bullied the previous day, when he walked into the school and saw the sea of pink in his support and against bullying. In the four years since this event happened in Nova Scotia, “Pink Shirt Day” has spread through-out Canada, United States and Australia. Standing united against bullies . . . it’s a good thing!
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