Taking A Stand In Schools and Colleges

I wish something like this could happen in our schools in India. A few students at an American school wore pink shirts to protest against bullies. Recently in that school a 9th grade kid was mocked at and threatened by a group of bullies for wearing a pink shirt — they think gays wear pink clothes.

To teach the bully kids a lesson the 12th grade students organized a pink-shirt day and distributed pink tank tops to many students, including one of the bullies. They even brought a pink football at school.

In the name of ragging and student politics bullying is prevalent in Indian colleges too and both law and college authorities have expressed their inability to eradicate it. Similarly continuous onslaught of peer pressure drives school kids to do things they won’t otherwise do. This problem can be solved within a few days if students, both at school and college level, take a stand.

In fact, many ills of the society can be eliminated by simply taking a collective stand. I’d look to put more stress on the word collective because it often becomes difficult, and sometimes fatal, for a single individual to stand up and face the bullies.

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