Pink Shirt Day at PHSS

Our staff and students proudly wore pink today, representing anti-bullying and acceptance of diversity in our society. Today is Pink Shirt Day in Canada. All across the country young people don pink shirts to send a message to stop bullying. Pink Shirt Day began in September 2007 when a grade 9 student was bullied for wearing a pink polo shirt, at Central Kings HS in Cambridge, Nova Scotia. When he was told that if he ever wore pink again he'd pay for it, two grade 12 students, David Shepherd and Travis Price purchased 50 pink shirts and sent out messages inviting as many kids as possible to wear them to school. Almost 300 students showed up dressed in pink, some from head to toe. One of the bullies saw a sea of pink and threw a trash can in protest, but as Shephard would say later, not a peep was heard from the bullies after that day. Today there are schools around the world that hold annual Pink Shirt Days, all because 2 Canadian Grade 12 students decided to step up and take a stand against bullying. Edmund Burke once said,"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." The converse is also true: All that is required to change things is for more of us- parents, teens and bystanders- to step up, speak up, and let our voices be heard. Let's be the agents of positive change and challenge those who aren't treating others respectfully. Make every day and anti-bullying day!