By Cheryl Jahn

Malaspina Elementary takes Pink Shirt Day seriously

Feb 22, 2023 | 3:20 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Six young ladies are all members of the leadership class at Malaspina Elementary School, where anti-bullying efforts have gone well-beyond Pink Shirt Day. It’s a month-long affair. One of the things they have been doing this month is writing inspirational notes.

“So all leadership students at our school. At lunch period, they would go and write kind things on Post-it notes, and then we would go and take those and put them randomly around the school teachers’ desks, people in people’s like on people’s desks, just walls, put them in books and stuff like that,” explains Kaylan. “So when somebody opens a book, they can see a nice message written for them.”

It’s all in an effort to put a smile on someone’s face and curb bullying in the school.

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Pink Shirt Day is being celebrated everywhere and it holds a special place for these young students.

“It means a lot because I feel like no one really deserves to be bullied. Even whoever they are, they just don’t deserve to be bullied at all,” says Allie, also a Leadership Student.

“It means a lot because I feel like no one really deserves to be bullied. Even whoever they are, they just don’t deserve to be bullied at all,” says Mia. “So if you’re bullying someone, it could come back at you some way. And it’s rude to bully someone. And if you’re teasing someone.”

So what is bullying?

“Teasing is when maybe it happens once or twice and somebody is just like making jokes, stuff like that,” describes Kaylan. “And then a bully is more when it happens over and over again and it like won’t stop. And they’re being negative and it’s not kind of.”

Whether it is Pink Shirt Day or Pink Shirt Month, as is the case at Malaspina Elementary, these young leadership students take great pleasure in making others feel good.