Why Pink Shirt Day Is Important

Solidarity. There are only a handful of days each year that we all come together for a common purpose–and none as stylish as Pink Shirt Day. Just like a Poppy represents support for our veterans, a pink shirt indicates awareness, empathy, and solidarity for those who have been, or are being bullied.

Bullying can be extremely isolating, so for those students to see their entire school stand in solidarity against bullying is extremely liberating. What it also shows is that bullying affects, or has affected us all.

Travis Price, the co-founder of Pink Shirt Day, and I were both speakers at the 2014 Hero Round Table conference in Flint, MI. Travis is the one standing in the middle, pictured with my fiance and myself. He and his friend David Shepherd started Pink Shirt Day in an attempt to stand up for a fellow student who was being bullied for simply wearing a pink shirt to school. This act of solidarity has become a international movement.

The only problem with Pink Shirt Day is, it’s only one day. There are 365 days in a year, so a plan of action is needed in order to perpetuate this sentiment throughout the year. That’s where School Heroes Unite comes in.

School Heroes Unite is a one hour presentation designed to cultivate a new culture of heroism and teamwork at your school. Through the use of magic, music, video, storytelling and audience participation, School Heroes Unite will engage and captivate your students. It has all the spirit of a pep rally but provides students with real tools and a plan of action.

Make Pink Shirt Day matter this year, by fostering lasting change through solidarity, heroism and teamwork.

Your Partner in Heroism,
Scott Dietrich