By Miles Patrick Yohnke
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Bullying isn't just a kid's problem.
It's found everywhere and at every age. It is found in the workplace, with your position being in question from a higher authority. In ads, that you will be less or missing out without buying their product. In church, with the threat that you will go to hell or be doomed. In parliament, with each party acting like little children fighting in a sandbox. Bullying's face is power, greed and insecurity, and will always be with us until adults start acting like adults and stop allowing children and adults to be bullied. By teaching their own children proper values. This isn't going to happen until they themselves understand it.
"Be up-beat, not beat-up." - Miles Patrick Yohnke
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Subject: International Stand Up to Bullying Day
Release Date: Nov. 18, 2022
"Be up-beat, not beat-up."
- Miles Patrick Yohnke
International Stand Up to Bullying Day emerged from the acts of two Nova Scotian 12th graders. Travis Price and David Shepherd stood up and protested when a fellow student was picked on for wearing a pink shirt. They bought 50 pink shirts at a discount store and emailed their classmates asking them to wear the pink shirts that they had bought the following day, to create a "sea of pink" to support the bullied student. Many students wore the shirts while the rest came to school in their own pink clothes. Their act of creativity and kindness…