Monday morning students of Carman Elementary School were surprised to see their staff members in pink shirts, dancing to the music of Bruno Mars. Principal Deb Russell explains they used their regular "student performance assembly" as a way to send an anti-bullying message.


Russell tells us the flash mob event has created a lot of positive energy, and now the students are learning the moves. She says by participating in a dance the anti-bullying message will hopefully stay with them, and empower them. The students are practicing for their own performance of the routine on Wednesday.




Russell adds bullying and cyber-bullying occur constantly in schools and they want to make a difference.



There were three secretive practices so staff could learn the choreography, and that in itself was a team building experience. Russell tells us students will try to wear pink shirts tomorrow and will discuss more bullying issues in their classrooms.



From www.pinkshirtday.ca

On February 29, 2012 we encourage all of you to wear something pink to symbolize that we as a society will not tolerate bullying anywhere. We wish we could take credit for this idea but it comes from two incredible Nova Scotia high school students.

David Shepherd, Travis Price organized a high-school protest to wear pink to help out a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied. The boys helped take a stand by distributing pink shirts to all of the boys in their school. They found 50 pink tanktops at a discount store and got the message out to their schoolmates. The boys handed out the shirts in the foyer the next morning and the bullies were never heard from again.