AROUND TOWN: Maple Lane students send an anti-bullying message
A sea of pink shirts invaded the Olympic Oval last Wednesday when hundreds of students from Maple Lane Elementary School performed and filmed a flash mob dance to raise awareness for Anti-Bullying Day.
“As a staff we’re really about … teaching children to be good citizens,” said Mark McCallum, the school’s principal.
“We really hope the kids will carry this message,” he said.
The message they are spreading is not just one of anti-bullying but one of acceptance, a word that is splashed across the front of the students’ pink shirts along with “Born this way.”
As the kids started dancing a small crowd of family and passersby gathered to watch.
The flash mob, which was danced to Lady GaGa’s “Born This Way,” will be one of several filmed in communities mostly around the Lower Mainland that will be put together into a YouTube video and posted for Anti-Bullying Day.
“We hope this will have a long term positive effect,” McCallum said.
Mette Hamaguchi, the principal of David Lloyd George in Vancouver, started this project after she organized a successful flash mob at Oakridge Centre last year and decided to expand and include more schools.
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