Students mark anti-bullying day Sept. 9

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Sep 08, 2010- 1:45 PM

By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff

Staff and students at Rainbow District School Board schools will wear pink Sept. 9 as the board marks its third Stand Up Against Bullying Day.

“Once again, this small gesture will go a long way in demonstrating our collective commitment to safe schools,” Norm Blaseg, the school board's director of education, said.

“We invite everyone in the community to join with us and wear pink on Thursday, September 9th.”

Stand Up Against Bullying Day began in Nova Scotia where secondary school students Travis Price and David Shepherd arranged for dozens of their classmates to wear pink shirts in support of another student who had been bullied for wearing pink.

The Province of Nova Scotia subsequently declared the second Thursday at the start of every school year to be Stand Up Against Bullying Day.

"The actions of these two young men, along with their fellow students who wore pink to school in support of another student, reverberated across Canada and here in Rainbow Schools,” Blaseg said.
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4 Comments

  • Phillip Morris 9/9/2010 11:27:07 AM - Report Abuse

    True staypositive.
    The bully label has now created a fallback place where parents and pestering kids can claim reason for their brats getting 'targeted'.
    We've created a generation of 'run and tell' after you get cornered for being a troublemaker.

    Gone are the days of "Meet me at the flagpole after school, and we'll settle this." Now the cowards way is to cry Bully!'
    Bottom line? Stand up for yourself or keep your nose in your own business. Stop hiding behind teachers and parents for you own shortfalls or trouble causing.

  • staypositive 9/8/2010 9:12:07 PM - Report Abuse

    Our experience with bullying in the school system was where "helicopter parents" got so involved in the school yard drama that they started bullying our daughter on school property. Further they bullied the teacher who did not get any back up from the vice principal or principal. It was only when the Director of Education, Jean Hanson got involved that the parents were put in their place. The principal and vice were afraid to stand up to the parents. If it wasnt for the amazing, professional and dedicated teacher our child would have had permanent scars from this experience.

  • joy_3 9/8/2010 6:24:49 PM - Report Abuse

    September 10th will be when the victim is beat up by the bully cause the teacher and principal have turned a blind eye to the assault. The victim's parents will march into the school a thousand times to see the prinicipal and call the school director without any results except an escalation in the violence cause the poor child told someone. It isn't until these victims become older that sometimes they take years of being bullied into their own hands. Ask parents how lameduck the schools have been.

  • Phillip Morris 9/8/2010 4:24:19 PM - Report Abuse

    The next day should be one where they wear black and blue. Informing kids that causing trouble and being a pest has it's consequences. Running off and claiming being bullied doesn't wash.
    Sooner or later you have to stand up for yourself. The alternative is keeping to yourself in the first place.

    Bottom line here folks is that we are now encouraging the behavior of hiding behind the teacher and the veil of "Bully".
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