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My mom told me about this story yesterday, and I absolutely fell in love with some of the boys at Central Kings High School in Halifax, NS.

A group of boys, David Shepherd, Travis Price, Chris Spencer, Nick Sullivan and John Kenneally, grade 12 students at CKHS hit the local discount shop, after a group of bullies at their school threatened to beat up a grade 9 student on his first day of high school, for wearing a pink polo shirt. They cleaned the shop out of every pink tank top they could find, and the next day at school, gave them away in the front foyer. Loads of people took them, to protest.

"The school looks cool," Sullivan told the King's County Register. "There's pink all over the school."

David Shepherd, the mastermind behind the plan said that they decided to do this because,

"It's our last year and we want to make a difference. At a young age, you don't know the difference between playful teasing and bullying. Doing it over the colour pink is just so stupid."

The principal of the school, was quite pleased with the protest, and stated,

"It doesn't surprise me at all they'd want to do this - we have some great kids."

Emphasis mine.

Along with some obvious jerks who were too insecure with themselves, and needed to take it out on some poor niner.

Anyway, a big round of applause for these awesome grade 12 boys, who decided to take a stand, and not let their school go on being a centre of torture. Oh yeah, and here's a picture of them:

Lookin' good, guys! Keep up the good work, and good luck with your last year of school!

The source of this story, other than what my mom told me, can be found, on The Halifax Daily News website.

Random Fact of the Day: The word "pink," was first used in the 17th century to describe the colour of the Dianthus flower family. Pink is also my favourite colour. If you would like to learn more about this hue of excellence, including it's hex codes and historical influence, please hop on over to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink.

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