Day of Pink is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia and Transphobia in schools and communities. We invite everyone to celebrate diversity by wearing a pink shirt and by organizing activities in their workplaces, organizations, communities and schools.
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Do you think wearing Pink and having a dress down today is an effective way to deal with the issue of Bullying?
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I don't really think that wearing pink is not reasonable or affective at all because as Mr Cheney said that one day you'll wear pink for awareness but the next day are you going to keep in mind that same awareness? Wearing pink really makes no deference it isn't gonna stop people from bullying other or being racist, it actually takes a lot more than a pink shirt to stop bullying or to end racism. Your wearing a pink shirt, yes it shows you are aware of what happens in the world but the very next day you will forget about it and just ignore it like it was never there, like it never happened.
ReplyDeletedo you have any ideas of what ways you can stop people from bullying because i can not think of any
Deleteif someone gay was bullied do you think on pink day he would wear pink in front of the same bully
DeleteI don't really think so because they wouldn't want to be laughed at just like how the boy who was gay and was wearin a pink shirt was laughed at.
DeleteWhat do you think the next step after awareness is?
DeleteThe next step of awareness I would say is we have assembly to talk about "Day Of Pink" through our my years of Beaumonde this is the first time I've really talked about "Day Of Pink." I feel as a school we've done nothing more but holding up dress down days for occasions like this .
Deletevery interesting how this just becomes another dress down day? how many feel this way?
Deletei agree i think there is no point of wearing pink and raising awareness we need to take action.also i think some people just wear pink because its fun or its a dressdown day.
DeleteIt's like a dress down day because we are wearing clothes and donating a dollar, and plus, wearing pink isnt going to stop anyone. Therefore people take it as a dress down day
DeleteDo yourself think that if we remove all the bullies that this would be a better world ?
DeleteI don't believe just wearing a pink shirt is going to suddenly stop Bullying right there but its a starting point. Pink Day shouldn't start and end one day because bullying is 24/7. Yes you donate $1 and wear pink but tomorrow you have to stay committed and continue. Honestly, I don't think bullying will ever be stopped in the world. Maybe it will lessen but never completely go away, kind of like racism.
ReplyDeletei agree that it will never stop and what do you think a bully that bullied someone gay would feel like whenever it is pink day would he feel guilty or not?
Deleteif you see someone getting bullied what would you do to make that person stop and stop forever
Deleteif your friend was gay and told you that he / she was getting bullied what would be your first advice
DeleteI think he would feel guilty. But I guess it changes with the bully itself, I do think any human would feel guilty though.
DeleteI'd probably say that its your choice and nobody has the right to change to hurt you for it. It's the 21st century, and a free country.
Deletewould'nt the bully feel as if he is a loser and no one will like him or her on pink day
DeleteBullies look tough from the outside but their actually not their also human like us and of course on pink day a little bit of guilt would rush through their minds because every human has feelings but bullies just don't express their feelings like we do. That's why they are like this, strong on the outside but unsecure in the inside. They themselves don't know why they are bullying people some do it for entertainment but is this the only way 2 entertain yourself and others? Is it really?
DeleteThey probably bully because they are insecure. I do agree they feel kind of guilty on that day but afterwards they probably just go back to their regualar ways.
DeleteOops I meant in secure and I agree with Nicole they probably do go back to their regular ways after not being guilty any ore
DeleteIf it a starting point, has BHJMS planned for the next step? are we going to do anything about bullying? Do we need to find out who is being bullied? How much bullying is going on at BHJMS?
Deleteon line bullies go beyond the stereotype of looking big and scary.
Deletesome of the most hurtful bullying is the subtle and ongoing and degrading kind.
Big evil bullies are easily identified and stoped.
Bullies real feel remorse???
Deletei agree somepeople think racism is fully gone but its not so even if we try to stop bullying its still going to exsist but we are not going to see it just like racism.for example a white guy and a black guy apply for a job both of them have the same experiance but the white guy will get chosen.
DeleteI don't think Beaumonde has planned for the next step yet. Its pretty hard for a school to stop bullying because it happends undercover. Especially with Cyberbullying, the school has almost no control over it.
DeleteI think finding out who is being bullied is critical because we need to identify the problem before we can fix it. I also believe a lot more bullying happens online than in school. Its also much more difficult to stop Cyberbullying.
Like I said before I think some bullies feel guilty but thats temporary and not to a high enough extent to change their ways. I don't think bullying will ever fully be extint.
the pink day is just to keep us aware however it does not affect the way to deal with homophobia and bullying because we are not pressurizing the people that bully others to stop we are just showing the bullies that we know what they are doing therefore they will keep bullying others also as what mr.cheney said that if you tell people about bullying people won't care about bullying the next day and won't apply this later on in life and this is true because this is exactly like kony we could have stopped him 20 years ago but the U S government said that they will only get kony if people know about him however maybe few or alot of people knew about him but maybe after a week they would have forgotten which made kony stay alive and this will be the same case about pink day we can do something about it but we don't.
ReplyDeleteI agree it will have some affect on the bully but not a big enough affect for them to change their ways.
DeleteGood connection to Kony and I agree pink day isn't enough to have a big affect on the bullies so they can mend their ways
DeleteThe awareness and shirt must be a small part of a big solution. But the Pink shirt is the fun and easy stuff. But the real work is more then that,
Deletei think that this is true. it just creates awareness to the issue. its also a way for kids help phone to earn money, and keep the company going.
DeleteAqib, what do you think factors a bully to become what he is? Is it the fact his self-esteem feeds off of others? He's come from a violent family? Feels its the only way to prove himself? Is there pressure to become a bully? And if so how does this affect their mentality towards life (academically, physically?)
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Deletepeople just wear pink on that specific day and the next day they just forget that bullying still need to be stopped.
DeleteThis Morning I Was Telling A Few Oh My Friends That Wearing Pink Isn't Going To Do Much because just because you wear pink this one day it's not going to go very far until some of us forget about, I doubt that people knew it was going to be pink day, if no one announced it on the P.A.
ReplyDeleteJust like Kony 2012, just because people make posters and put them up people will forget about it in a while, just like Mr. Cheney said most of us here forgot about it after the speeches and no one talked about it after that .
how about people like mr. cheney that is following this topic do you think he could do something and does he have a say in this can he influence people to be like him
DeleteWell, this day is an awareness day for people to go against people who are supporting homophobia. People like Mr. Cheney could do something about this start a campaign to spread even more awareness, now to my perspective I don't believe that is going to do much more, than whats helping now due to the fact that some people are just going to treat this as another dress down day, But what we could do is have this awareness day more than once a month, and have it every month. The problem with that is after a few months, maybe a year people will start to see this as a dress down day.
DeleteAs a teacher you try to provide a safe and engaging classroom. When students are engaged and interested in learning Bullying disappears.
Deletei bet that about 50% of students wear pink thinking that they are raising awareness of bullying and the rest wear pink for fun
DeleteI didn't really like the video, it might have been in the prospective of a bully victim but the victim was assuming bullies are all evil and nasty, but i think its just physiological. Also new research has been done, and in fact bullies do not lack self-esteem, they have high self-esteem, they feel more superior over others but tend to lack compassion and caring. Also its been said that children with ADHD tend to grow up bullies.. (not proven) some might do it to make people think they are tough because deep inside they may be a sensitive person (mostly in males)
ReplyDeleteHomosexuals might be easy bully targets and victims but also can be bullies themselves, like if there was a "popular guy" and he was popular for being tough and in the football team or something, but he was secretly gay and obviously never would have opened up to anyone about that because of his friends hating on gay people and bullying them, so what would he do? bully them as well, the guy could be a sensitive person, but would never want to show his friends that because of the males image in the media to be strong brave "manly.."
Just one thing to keep in mind is that bullying is physiological, theres many things going on in a bully's head, its not that the bully is evil and cruel, its more complex then that and thats why there should be physiologists talking to bullies and try to understand more on how teens think and their views on everything.
To an extent, I think bullying is a biproduct of the media. Not just because of the males image of personality, and how it effects guys who dont fit the medias description of a man, but also the amount of violence shown on t.v, the amount of trash talk, we might grow up thinking this is normal, and not think about how serious violence can be and even how serious name calling can be. "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" Infact words can effect you the most, and bully victims can probably agree.
i know people which are just fine and no problems in life however they still bully because they hate the person
DeleteBANG ON...bullies are full of fake and shallow self esteem!!! and bullying the weak just fuel the self esteem.
Deleteyes that cliche quote is fools gold, words can hurt and sting and resonate for a long time. With the internet bully words and tactics can be a constant wave. Tough to run away from .
Delete@aqib i agree thats one of the reasons i think bullying can't be stopped.but i think some bullies bully because there emotions
DeleteWhen someone does something considered small and no big deal (making fun of someone) it makes the bully think they have gotten a self-esteem boost, fake self-esteem really, like who would get real confidence? By taking some confidence from someone else? It truly is a shallow and artificial way.
DeletePink Day wont help one bit to end bullying, bullying will never end, it will always be around, there will always be teens who have physiological problems, and wearing a colour for one day wont really help, even if you donate a dollar to the kids help phone, the money will mostly go to help run the organization and the rest will go to the employees that wont really be a big help to make bullies stop because bullies minds are complex and theres more then just the reason of "oh its because theyre insecure" and thats not even a proven fact.
ReplyDeleteI think the real problem is with the teens who need some help with a physiologist, and not really with the bully victims because the bully victims are victims from the bullies; from the teens who do what they do for many reasons.
do you think that if all of the bully victims would've came and told their problem to an elder do you think then there will be less bullying
Delete@aqib no I don't really think so because well what are adults going to do their just going to tell the bully to stop or give him/her some detention but that won't decrease bullying would it? Infact the bully would bully some more just because the victim told on the bully so either way your still being bullied
DeleteMy question to you is, how else can bullying be minimized you speak very clearly about how it will never end, Yet, how do you deal with this right now and today. Because "Tommorow" is the key to failure, how can you start today?
DeleteI agree I was watching the news one time and it was talking about Haiti and how not all the money went toward feeding the people of Haiti and rebuilding the community's and after doing research I found out that $4.6 billion was raised but only 43% of those funds went to help the other percent I'm guessing is to keep the organization still running even though many claimed that 100% of the profits would go to help them
Deletebullying is one hard thing to get rid off and will not happen for another long period of time. If you had a way to contribute to help stop bullying how would you?
Deletei think bullying and racism are things we can't control or completly end.for example once there use to be a time when black people and white people could not drink from the same water fountain but we changed it and we might not see that kind of racism but racism still exsist.
Delete@Aqib no because that wouldnt change how the bully feels and it doesnt change the reason why the bully bullies in the first place. There could be rules to try to change it but i think that they wont follow it.
Delete@Tabish I think hardcore bullying is an issue (violence involved) when they take their feelings and craving for self esteem to extremes. I dont think there is a way to minimize that, there could be rules against it, and of course there is but did that stop it? Talking to the problem is my only suggestion (physiologists talking to bullies)
@Shelby yes, and dont you think its pointless if most of the money goes in their pockets instead of where they say there giving it to? so they really shouldnt be calling it "haiti foundation" or "saving kids in africa"
@Anurag There arent many foundations or organizations towards bullying maybe because its not considered a big issue, i guess donating to the kids help phone is the only way to go, but of course we can do much better then that if your ambitious enough and passionate about this issue.
@Sana i agree, we cant really control how people feel and it would be extremely hard to change it, so thats why there are physiologists for that job.
so you are saying that there is exactly no solution for ending bullyig
ReplyDeleteWell maybe there is but we just don't know what it is? We have to make our way up to it the solution won't just come to us like that
DeleteI don't think a society or culture has existed without bullying
DeleteRules And Regulations didn't work in schools people still bully, So I would say there would be no solution for bullying, The world always have problems, there's never a day with peace, and only peace .
DeleteWhat does that say about Human Beings if we can never live in peace and without bullying?
Deletethere is some way we can decrease it but we can't completely end it like racism
DeleteI don't think wearing Pink is the solution to bullying because Pink Day is to raise its awareness and by wearing pink we just show we support them. The problem is that its just for one day that we show we care.Wearing pink isn't really going to solve anything because how will that stop bulling.I don't think the money is effective either because its just keeping the company running.I do think that bullies have some issues themselves, and that's why they react that way towards others.Maybe the same thing happened to them before and there angry so they do the same to others.
ReplyDeleteI disagree, I think the money does help. With the money you can feul opportunities. Also, Kids Help phone is mostly volunteers and the donated money goes to leadership camps and courses.
DeleteNicole, I Agree.. But, Sure The Money Goes To Leadership Camps And Courses, I'd say the question would be how much of it goes to the company.
DeleteThe key to donating money is to get involved and informed and see how it is spent. A better solution, raise the money for the school and we can spend it how we want.
DeleteSpending money on posters are a waste of money because barely anything is being done, because what could a small poster that says "STOP BULLYING, PINK DAY!!" Do? It could be a start, but it should be something kids help phone is aware of. that, posters don't have much affect on people because most people just walk by and just walk by, not even a glimpse.
DeleteIf you had 1000 Dollars how would you spend it at BHJMS to help anti bullying
Deletei think most people didnt care about the fact that its to spread awareness to stop bullying. it was a way for people not to wear our dress code.
Deletei do not know what i would do with the 1000 dollars however i would know how other schools would use it they would use most of the money like the Suzuki foundation they would probably use the money to hire someone to talk about how bullying is bad however the same thing will always happen they will forget about it
Deletedo you think that if we grew up having a pink uniform do you think less people will be called gay for wearing pink?
DeleteWe do have those peer mediators outside, helping little kids with their problems.
DeleteI don't really think money could solve bullying.We cant actually stop bullying by buying anything.
@am17,the problem is that most of the guys think pink is a girls colour, so i dot really see that happening.When I went to do that presentation on bullying for grade 1-4,all the boys didnt want to wear pink and asked of they could wear red or purple.
i think we all have said something that is racist or mean like i remember my uncle like pink and when i was in grade 3 i used to make fun of him.
Delete@ aqib yes there would be less called gay for wearing pink because everyone is. So no one is going to get picked on and pink wont be considered "gay".
DeleteNo i do not think pink day will do much of a cause it may raise awareness but it will not stop.Just is bad is the fact that in a week or so three quarters of the school will ignore the "protest" they just participated in and do the exact thing they deprived of.
ReplyDeleteOne of the worst things that i have realized is that bullying is "everlasting" it will not stop it may reduce at times but it will gain back the loss and will allways be there.There are many causes of bullying. One of the main causes is low self esteem. When a person thinks lowly of himself, he feels a constant need to prove that he is better than others. The most common result of this need is bullying. In bullying someone weaker than himself, the person feels superior. A quote i would relate to this that i heard recently is “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment he needs help. That's the message he is sending."
Another cause of bullying would be poor familial upbringing. When parents exhibit rude sayins or aggressive behaviour at home, their children, being the fast learners they are, automatically behave similarly in school.
Although i am not saying that we should just let the bully keep going we should take a stand and ask them their problems maybe even consult with a adult about the problem.In concluision one thing that i certify for you not to do is be a bystander of the bullying and do nothing it is worse in itself , take a stand!
I like the quote you used and it's very much true you don't just make others suffer for no reason it's mainly because your suffering yourself
DeleteGreat response and insight. How much bullying do you think happens at BHJMS? Is twitter a positive or negative for bullying and peer relations.
Delete@ mr cheney
Deletei think it can be both. its positive and negative. but i think in our cases, its mostly used in a positive way.
at first i do not see anyone get bullied in our school also twitter is a positive for bullying because if you bully someone on twitter i guess everyone would see what you wrote and people will talk back
Deletehow do you think that we can make these parents less worse than they are
Deletei don't think pysical bullying happens in BHJMS but definety cyber and i think twitter can be positive/negitive at the same time because people can post offensive stuff but other might see it and report it
Delete@Mr.Cheney i as well agree with Malav it can be both as i in the past have seen both positive and negative but i think that the positive is more used and is "rubbed off" on others that read to do the same
Delete@Aqib i think that bullying does at times happen in BHJMS. I would think that even the smallest things can hurt someones feelings as they try to hide the fear of bullying.This is an outcome of people getting judged the people who judge are so called "bullys" in that persons perspectives then the outcome is seeing the person being less active in class raising there hand less and participating in group work less and no one will realize the act of bullying that has been portrayed.
DeleteWell, wouldn't Pink day be like David Suzuki's Foundation because 85% of their money goes back to the company to keep it running, wouldn't Pink day's money be doing the same, I'm not saying that they're keeping the money and not helping, I'm just questioning "what if" that's what they're doing .
ReplyDeleteQuestioning is what you should do ALWAYS! Ask and find out how does the money raised get spent. If you don't like it, make your own plan!
DeleteWe often assume charities are high and moral, but some are just big businesses that operate to make a profit. Investigate!!!
DeleteIf we have to donate a dollar mandatory then i would donate less depending on how much % of the money they keep and they give for the actual cause.
Deletei think that in this case, all the money goes to the kid's help phone. the whole idea is that we raise money to give to them so that we can continue the kid's help phone, and have better people talking to kids.
Deletei would say that even if most of the money is not going to the cause it still helps because without the money more people will suffer in other parts of the world
DeleteI think that kids help phones takes 100% of the money for the employers to keep it running and more phone places for more callers.
Deletei agree with anurag they take 100 percent of the money.
DeleteMy opinion on this is that almost every single foundation does that.
Delete100% agreed. What would you do to help solve this problem?
Delete@anurag but do you think that in each $1.00 the owners of the company get atleast 60% therefor giving the actual working employers the rest of the 40%.And makeing the rich richer and giving the employers less of the outcome of the money.
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ReplyDeleteWearing pink on a special day is like paying a dollar to the kids help phone foundation. You are helping them to have more phone receptionist etc but that’s not going to stop bullying. The thing is, bullying has been around this world if you know or don’t know. Bullying is powerful to make others make a life changing decision or not, it depends how the victim takes it in right? To get to the point, I say that wearing pink on a marked date on your calendar is insignificant…really.. .it really is. If you and even if I think that we are going to make change by wearing pink for a day and truly means zilch. Sure you’re attempting to raise awareness yap I agree we should raise awareness but then nobody knows the next step. For eg: if I start to raise awareness about Kony 2012 then after I complete the awareness, everyone is going to look back at me and say “ and now what do we do, the whole world now knows about Kony , what is the next step?” And I would be puzzled and would not know what to say. If you really want to be recognized that you’re trying to change something then you have to be fully committed like our past great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, and obviously Martin Luther King Jr. In conclusion what I’m trying to say is that we should be aware that awareness is not the solution, but the beginning of the ladder. And also don’t think you did something to stop bullying, those actions like wearing pink for a day aren’t enough!!!!
ReplyDeleteBullies only bully others cause they are cowards. They maybe have their own problem and some use that stress from that problem and change it into physical, cyber, mental bullying. And please note that these business like kids help phone aren't always giving 100% of the money they earn. They use most of them to keep the business going. You should at least know where the money your donating is going to because you don't want to waste all of it on just that foundation. You have to look deep into stuff like this.
I agree with the Kony example because when I was watching the video it said how I think on April 20th their going to cover our cities in a bunch of Kony posters, but that is just making more aware of the issue not stopping it, which it probably cant be stopped
Deletei like what you are saying however what you said about kony what do we do next also for pink day what do we do next
Deleteexactly! what do we do next for racism-bullying-kony, we raised awareness what next
Deleteafter raising awareness we just stop and start again the next year. That is really pointless.
DeleteIf you give money and it is going to keeping the business going isn't there a profit in that to. As you are keeping the business running well for other kids to call in therefore giving the company a less chance of bankruptcy.
Deletelike mr cheney said, it brings awareness to the issue. by wearing pink, you dont do anything. donating a dollar to the kids help phone is important, but it wont make much of a difference if you just wear a pink shirt. in fact, yesterday people got bullied for wearing pink. so wearing pink doesnt make a difference in bullying. racism will never go away; its the same with bullying. we can minimize it, but it wont be gone.
ReplyDeleteWearing pink is the first step their are still many more to go.. you say some kids got bullied wearing pink but is it the same thing of a whole group of people wearing pink going up to a bully? will the group of people wearing pink get bullied. In my opinion i find it the same thing but the group of people that went to the bully wont get bullied because they stood up minimizing the percentage doesn't hurt at least the number decreased then before....
Deletewe been rasing for a long time now when are we going to move on.
Delete@ neha okay ya wearing pink is the first step, that's what everyone says and you said there is more to go. So can you tell me what to do for the next step. I think you won't know because what would be the next step. Everyone wants to do the next step but no one is that committed unlike MLK Jr.,Mahatma Gandhi. We always do the first step and then just stop and wait the next year to still just do the first step. After the first you need a second. But we just drop the block on the first and in fact not even everyone did the first step which is awareness. So how can you rely on others to do the second one if you want movement or if you want to be heard!!!
Deletei think people are saying no that bullying wont end because mr cheney said that wearing pink wont help, and he bought us in on what he was trying to say.
ReplyDeleteno because its like what mr.cheney said someone else would take the bad guys place
DeleteBut don't you think that its better if you do something from yourself than just wearing pink?
DeleteEven if you judge someone is the slightest of bullying. Here is a sight that i found that can help kids with bullying problems.
Deletehttp://www.kidpower.org/resources/articles/prevent-bullying.html?gclid=CI-6qYHssa8CFe4DQAodhxpeEw
I beleive that it really almost accomplishes nothing, rather just a way to raise awareness. But, is wearing pink really gonna help the students that are being bullied today, it's of nonsensical matter. Does your wearing of pink really do anything?! At all. The pink is just there, "Oh yeah, I did my part, I'm wearing pink" No, you didn't (I don't want my diologue to be too personal and attacking, I just use you as an example) Back to the point, Has pink day really accomplished anything? Or has it become another dress down day, in which we choose to wear pink? The symbolism behind this is said to be a gay boy being beaten up by 2 bullies. Do we choose pink in the morning because we want to get rid of it or to show off to our friends, that we are kind hearted people caring for the rights of others. Racism especially systemic racism will continue on forever, will we be able to change that? Who knows? Its the same with bullying, Bullying could mean that we have a group of students whose ego's were put down at one point, so get back to where they were (in self-esteem) they choose to bully so their ego's can feed off the cries and tears of their victims. But, back to the point. There are multiple factors that can lead one to bully and that's why bullying could be considered systemic. Yet, what they do is wrong. And you can relate this back to the quote "The ends justify the means" They get their self esteem from bullying other kids, is that right? But, aside from that. I do think that it's a nice way to raise awareness, But, how effective can it be?
ReplyDeleteI agree even though racism now is not as horrible as it was years ago with slavery and things like that and we life in a multicultural country where many different people are treated the same there are still manyyy racist people that cant be stopped
Deletewell like everyone said that all bullies have problems and they express it in the form of bullying however is there other ways these so called "bullies" can express their fellings
Delete@Tabish, I agree most people just chose to dress down pink , not actually for the cause but raising its awareness might have stopped some bullies at least because some kids know what to do if there getting bullied.
DeleteEven though its just a dress down people are still paying a dollar which in a way is a good thing. Some people may not care but others can/may. Racism hasn't stopped yet neither had bullying but at least its worth a try. It never hurts to try and bullying may never stop but at least we are aware of what bullying is and that people that don't bully are being stopped from becoming a bully
Delete@tabish:people are paying one dollar at OUR school but what about high school's an example would be TCI they don't have uniform or dress code why would they still wear pink isn't it a dress down for them almost everyday?
Deleteshelby racism still effects us its not gone
DeleteThat is what I wrote but I said its not as horrible as it used to be and I also said that there are still racists
Deleteyes i think of turning your personal problems to bullying, we should or you should or any bully can show their feelings by going to a therapist (the old fashion way)
DeleteI don't think wearing pink will stop bullying as everyone else mentioned it just makes you more aware of the issue. Bully in my opinion cant ever be stopped there is always going to people that bully weather physically or verbally. An example of this could be racism people have fought years to end it yet its still going on today, like the Trayvon case, shot because he was wearing a hoodie and was black, so there will always be judgemental people that you cant stop by just donating money.
ReplyDeleteWhen one bully is gone, another one comes in to take its place.
DeleteBut pink day isn't about making bullying completely stop its just making people no that we are aware. But if it happened in the school in Nova Scotia then why cant it happen here? They fought for their rights, the bullies brought other kids down we aren't bringing the bullies down because when u bring someone down you bring yourself down but we are just trying to make the bully now what they have done isn't right and they know it but now we all also know it
Deletewe need to move on i think every one knows what bullying is.
Deletei agree like y they dont kill kony if they did there will always be someone who takes his/her place
DeleteHow would you try to stop bullying ?
DeleteWhat do you think donating will do ?
Deletei don't think wearing pink can stop bulling. we wear pink to raise awareness for bulling, well ithink everyone is aware what is bulling. wearing pink kind of helps because people donate 1 dollar to wear pink which might help but i don't think it really helps because i don't know where the money is going and what is it going to be used for. i personally think bulling can't be solved because sometime people put down others because they are sad or tring to get attention.we can't control peoples feelings so thats why i think bulling can't be stop.but overall i say that the only reson we where pink is to raise awareness of bulling which i see no point in because i think everyone already knows whats bulling.
ReplyDeletemost organization keep like 75% of the money to keep it running and the 25% to the problem.
Delete@Anurag: but at least still some of it is going to the actual problem. Now as an example how many of you guys would actually work for free take all your time and effort and not get paid a penny.... some may say yea i will want to get paid but others might say no i wouldn't need a penny ...you say that now but later in days when you grow up and start working you will want it to bring food to the table for your family
DeleteAnd also people need rewards for doing something so another example would be food drive... how many people in the school actually bring things to donate to the food drive i would say about 20% but what about the rest of 80% ? but when Ms.Jackson says who ever collects the most will win a free pizza lunch..then how many people will start bringing in things. And a lot of people don't bring in stuff regularly mostly only because they want to beat our class. Its always about the reward and appreciation the people get.
Deletei know that the 1$ i payed is going to the workers
Deletebut some organizations take the whole dollar but most is for the organization just to keep it ruining
DeleteWearing pink is just a way to represent that you understand whats going on and the concern of it, but it really doesn't make much of a different. Its great that you know the understanding of it but if you do something else to help the problem like a money collection to kids help phone or something else then you actually contributed to the problem. Wearing pink on that day kinda seemed liked a way to have a dress down day because after a day or two, no one would really care about it.
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Delete@Anurag,do you think talking to someone you dont know on the phone would really help?I think kids would rather want to talk to someone in their family but are to afraid to.
DeleteBut it shows that we are aware of the situation and by wearing pink the bullies are also aware that they are doing something bad and we all want to stop it. If it was just a way to get dress down how come only 20 % of the school dressed down and others didn't do you think this just shows that they don't care?
Delete@Jan101: talking to a stranger is kind of a better way because the person on the kids help line wont judge who you are also wont take sides of anyone they will only point out the wrong and right facts and also these people aren't random people from the streets they are professionally trained where as talking to family members they will only support you and forget about the bully's side and what is going on in the bully's mind. To make a correct decision you need to know both sides.
Delete@Neha, when they talk on the phone,its still one side. The family would actually try to solve the problem because they can(like if its happening at school, they could go to the school and make sure there kid is safe.)Even if are professionally trained , its not like they have experience themselves.There just doing to listen to you and probably what to do next.
Delete@Jan101: but that stranger is not emotionally attached to you and when it comes to bullying you dont want help from people that love you and will always take your side no matter what.. really to be true do you really think a parent would go to a bully and say "dear, whats wrong with you why are you bullying my son/daughter?" they will go up to the principal and say so and so is bullying my child i want it to stop otherwise i will do this or that...no parent would actually even care to go and see the other persons side. The people talking on the phone can be bullied themselves they can go through what other kids are going through
Deletewe now need to think of what would make a difference
Deletei agree but the kids help do u really call for help or your to scared some people are to afraid to call
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ReplyDeleteYes i do , because as you said in class its the first step to prevent bullying ,it shows awareness that bullying is going on as shown in the video. Take an example as Mahatma Ghandi he had made a group of people who wanted to fight against a situation with just a voice. He had a theory of “silent revolution” we all believe in it by wearing pink we show that we are aware of the cause we stand together to fight against it with our powerful actions and voices! I believe that actions speak louder than words
ReplyDelete@Neha, most ppl wore pink because it was a dress down day not really for the cause.I agree it does raise dearness but its dosnt stop bullying.
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Deletei agree with you janat it doesn't completely stop but if it was just for dress down then why didn't the whole school dress down why was their only a section like about 30-40% of students dress down?
Deletejanat i don't think that all of the people wore pink because of the dress down day atleast about 80% of them
Deletei agree but when pink day is over what do we do we are not doing anything now
DeleteDon't you think that making a dress down day would enrage the bullys and make them even worse that day and it could lead to verbal bullying as fag and so to that person when all they wanted to do was raise awareness and that would might even make the problem even bigger.
Deletepink may not stop bullying but it can raise awareness and aware the bullies that they know that they shouldnt be doing what they do but theres no action theres talk but no action we can talk all we want but what is talking going to do we need to use are feet and are hands we need to have plan tgo act on and right now we dont we just have a day each year why is there only one day when everyday children are getting bullied what do we do thoses days why is it only one day. the first thing i see when i go to this website is free when u sigh up u get free stuff and it would help for people to sigh up but are they using or sighing up for the right reasons but this website also has meaning they realy want people do get into the mood order t-shirts send them out aware people we wont stand for this anymore its just when pink day is over it feels like everything goes back to normal we stop talking and doing
ReplyDeleteI agree, pink day is for awareness, it wont stop anyone.
DeleteI agree with both of you, but can you think of way that we can stop this ?
Deletebut its really up to the people , the group to take an action and if you dont really care you wont.. and kids our age we need to be told what options in steps we can take next. We are taking action by putting our pink shirts on and our voices are going around telling people what pink day is posting statuses, tweets etc..etc..
DeleteMaybe we could make a anti bullying video or Movie!!! go bigger and better then our trailers???
ReplyDeleteThat would be great! I agree with the idea
Deletebut when are you going to show it and is that what your against for, like making a trailer would not do anything to stop bullying it will only spread awareness.
DeleteThat seems like a great idea !
Delete@underdog: so if we make a trailer or go beyond it ,it will just show awareness its the same thing for pink day wearing pink t-shirts so do you think we shouldn't do this at all? it shows awareness isn't that a good step to take and if we do make the trailer its showing more awareness so people don't get bored of just having pink day. there are more things people can look forward too.
I do not think pink day will stop bullying. But I realized that a couple days ago where mr Cheney told us about it's real affects. I just thought of it as a dress down day to donate to the kids help phone. Pink day may raise awareness for the bullies that homophobics are NOT alone. I dont think we can take much action except show the bullies what they are doing is wrong. So I think we could donate, but all that money will just keep the business alive, and only part of it goes for a good cause. So I think instead of wearing pink we should show the bullies everyone has a right to express themselves
ReplyDeleteBut wouldn't that not ddo anything to stop them because they would be engraged by all the attention that it had brought up and they would keep on doing it so I'm making a assumption that not all
DeleteBut isn't discriminating one another for what they have done in the Past make what they are now?
DeleteAnd will there ever be a solution to this problem?
i think expressing themselves they will get bullied more dont you think they should express themselves and stand up because just expressing yourself your going to get more bullied just the way the kid wearing a pink t-shirt did
DeleteIt's a fact that Pink Day will not stop bullying. There a lot of people that just don't care that much about this at all, so what do they do? They wear a pink shirt to show that they do care. Most of the people that did this really don't care about this. I care about people being bullied, but that doesn't I have to wear a pink shirt.
ReplyDeleteI think that it would be the right thing to just give up bullying because it doesn't bring any satisfaction to anyone. It's good to raise awareness to everyone, so that people might be fascinated and do some research. Everyone say that only gay's are being bullied, that's not true. Everyone gets bullied, it only depends if it happens in front of you or behind your back.
Even if you donate, what does that do? Good Job you helped a cause that is happening everyday that can be resolved by us humans. It's really not that hard to just tell a person "Bro what your doing is wrong, maybe you should stop." The person might not listen to you, but hey, you tried didn't you? Then again, and again. Keep trying. If your being bullied, it's really not that hard to ignore and walk away. Who cares what he/she/it thinks of you. It doesn't matter.
Pink Day is not that effective. All you see is people wearing pink. Why cant we have workshops ? We could at least work on something fun & learn from it. It would be much more effective then just wearing pink. Or even better, why wont we just fund raise through a fun way? We could sell T-Shirts that say Stop bullying. We could so much, but don't do it or even think of it. We could use our talent, maybe write a book. We could do so much.
I think that just saying stop bullying or wearing a certain colour for a certain day won't really change the behavior of the bully but kinda wants them to know that day but also makes sure that they are prepared for that day or so it just kind of keeps the bullying going on and that will soon become a problem and then it will get even bigger.
ReplyDeleteSo I believe taking action as in regulations can maybe change the behavior of the bully and therefore help how the people around them would feel.
But the clothes can still influence the bully de
Depending on the situation because everybody reacts differently to. Different problems.
DeleteSo I really think that we should take action instead of just wearing a pretty dress and saying Stop Bullying yet the discrimanation of the clothes aren't the real problem. The real problem is how they know you and so. It's actually depending on how they discriminate you and the way they dO it has a different effect on yourself and others so it can be your fault for being discriminated for the certain thing.
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DeleteWouldn't small things affect ones future just like small hinges on big doors wearing pink one day can cause a person to be called gay or so in the future just knowing that they wore pink in the past and I doesn't help at all it just causes a bigger problem.
@ tushar, it kind of does stop a bit of bullting though. eg. if you wore pink that day, buly is more likely to not call you gay since he/she knows that pink day is a stand/awareness to stop bulling so that does give awareness but doesnt stop bullying completely, so in all i agree with you
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