Day of Silence Follow Up

I am absolutely proud of all the students today in my school, and across the nation that stood up today for every broken nose, every broken dream, every hurt feeling, every skidded knee from being tripped, every person whose every been called a 'fag', and for every homosexual youth in the generations after us. The time to break the silence, the time to rise up against the discrimination and change societies norms towards dealing with bullying based on sexual orientation and gender preference. I think today was a big leap in our small central PA school. Although, it was an arduous process to get the day up and going the turn out today was worth every moment of fighting. I would have to guesstimate the participants to between 160-200 students.

The backlash was much less than I thought would happen. There were a few mean words on the internet, stolen fliers, and an anti-movement on facebook. My main hope for next year is that the students will be just as passionate and carry it on. I hope the administration will be less restrictive, and more positively supportive. I do have to say Collin's outfit was most definitely my favorite. It was the most flagrant rainbow of the day.

I loved his cape!

Some students wore duct tape, despite the pain of ripping it off. One boy wore duct tape and running mascara to emulate tears.







Tessa was definitely the biggest help to me today. She kicked ass at handing out things.







Do you have A Day of Silence story? Please do comment!

Day of Silence Follow Up