Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message

CAMBRIDGE — Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.

The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.

It was hard to miss the mass of students in pink milling about in the lobby, especially for the group that had harassed the new Grade 9 student.

"The bullies got angry," said Travis. "One guy was throwing chairs (in the cafeteria). We’re glad we got the response we wanted."

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..."The two friends said they didn’t take the action looking for publicity, but rather to show leadership in combating what they say is frequent bullying in schools."

They really did show leadership, didn't they! Good on 'em!

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Moon" but I like it!

to show solidarity (a great thing) is exactly like trying to unravel a powerful branch of gov't.

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Good for these two students!

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Thanks for sharing such a great story!

k&r

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...where the HELL was the school administration while all this bullying was going on? Answer: AWOL as usual.

I say this because I live in Nova Scotia, where all of this happened. There's a huge problem with bullying in the schools, and only rarely is anything done to prevent it, punish it, or deter it. It's not the kids' responsibility to take action--and our brain-dead municipal and provincial governments have roundly failed to step up.

Just sayin'. Kudos to the kids--now how about something from the adults? I include the parents as well. :rant:

effective than any intervention the administration could make.

The bullies have been brought up short. If the student body keeps it up, the bullies won't find bullying so easy to do in the future.

The Administration could learn tactics from these two kids, for sure!

My daughter does not abide bullies. It was the first week in school (middle school 6-8) and this tall 7th grade boy started picking on this smaller 6th grader. He was a Special Ed student and this bully and some of his friends were tossing this kids lunch around, keeping him from eating it. The kids in the cafeteria were just watching the bully brow beat this poor 6th grader.

My daughter got up, went over there, and promptly handed the guy his butt on a platter (verbally over course-well she did shove him once to get his attention) and told him that if she saw him bullying some one smaller than himself again-she would drag him to the principal office herself.Now she was not much bigger than the 6th grader, but I know how fierce she gets when she juts out her chin. He backed down.

She never said anything about it to me about this incident, instead, I heard it from one of her friends. She was a hero to the 6th graders and a leader to her class mates. The bully-well he lost so much face. She still is (this is her senior year)a class leader and my hero. This didn't surprise me at all because she has stood up before, just not to someone that much bigger than herself and so publically.

The school administrators can set the tone, but peer pressure works better.

>>>"The bullies got angry," said Travis. "One guy was throwing chairs (in the cafeteria). We’re glad we got the response we wanted."<<<<

What the hell are they, pro wrestling heels?

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That poor boy. Can you imagine how he must have felt? That was his 1st day of school and treated like THAT? How sad, but I'm THRILLED his fellow students defended him! This gives me hope.

That kid will remember this for the rest of his life. Often times the things that happen to us as kids stay with us for a really long time. I could cure cancer, marry Brad Pitt, and win a Nobel Prize but part of me will always be the kid who everyone picked on back in the day. Similarly this kid will always be the person that a group of people decided to stand up for. Those were some classy kids.