Pink floods school hallways in bid for tolerance

Pink hair, shirts and faceswere sported at several Nova Scotia schools Friday as an anti-bullying campaign sweeps the province.

At Sir John A. Macdonald High in Upper Tantallon, hundreds of students showed up for class wearing something pink, some completely covered by the colour.

"I just thought it was a really good cause and I just really wanted to make a point, so I went all out,"said Myles Evans, clad head-to-toe in a colour he rarely wears.He even rode in on a pink bike.

Another boywore a pink dress he bought at a second-hand store for $14, an investment he said was well worth the money.

Students who forgot to wear pink could get homemade bracelets or have pink hearts drawn on their faces.

The event was organized bymembers of thestudent council who were impressed by the pink shirt campaign, started last week bytwo students in theAnnapolis Valley.

Two Grade 12 students at Central Kings Rural High School, David Shepherd and Travis Price, came up with the idea after hearing about a Grade 9 boy who was harassed for wearing a pink polo shirt.

They went to a discount store and bought 50 pink shirts, including tank tops, to wear to school the next day.

Shepherd and Price were guest speakers Friday at North Nova Education Centre, the high school in New Glasgow, which was participating in the campaign with its own "wear pink" day.