HWDSB students and staff will join to celebrate the International Day of Pink. This day was started in Nova Scotia in 2007 when two Grade 12 students saw a Grade 9 student being bullied for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. Bullies harassed the boy and threatened to beat him up for wearing a pink shirt.
Two Grade 12 students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, bought and distributed 50 pink shirts and encouraged peers to arrive to school wearing pink.
