Background

This movement was inspired by the actions of two high school students from Nova Scotia. In 2007, the students witnessed a Grade 9 boy being bullied for wearing a pink polo shirt on his first day of school. Bullies harassed the boy, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up. Disgusted with this treatment, the students went to a nearby discount store and bought 50 pink shirts. Then they went online to email classmates to get them on board with their anti-bullying cause that they dubbed a “sea of pink”. The next day not only were dozens of students outfitted with the discount tees, but hundreds of students showed up wearing their own pink clothes, some head-to-toe.

Pink Shirt Day has grown across Canada as a way to symbolize that we as a society will not tolerate bullying.

Bullying is wrong. It’s as simple as that. At Central, we believe that we must stand against bullying individuals for any reason. The Other-Centered teachings of Jesus and his consistent embrace of those whom society has marginalized, is an example for us all. We stand against bullying.