WATCH: A new poll shows why we still have work to do in our battle against bullying. Nadia Stewart reports.
From Winter Games athletes competing in Prince George to the provincial legislature, Pink Shirt Day and the fight against bullying was recognized all over British Columbia.
“You have a responsibility to stand up and step in and stop that. And if everybody did that, there would be no more bullying,” said Christy Clark to the legislature.
Despite that, there is much to do. Just 51 per cent of people in an Angus Reid poll said schools are responding effectively to bullying, with 49 per cent disagreeing.
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“It’s always an issue. I see it a fair amount, despite every effort we make…to encourage kids to treat everybody kindly,” says Sheelagh Brothers, an elementary school teacher at Hastings Elementary.
“At this age, they are insulting each other with homophobic slurs. We hear it on the playground, ‘That’s so gay. Why do we have to this? That’s so gay.'”
WATCH: Additional coverage of 2015 Pink Shirt Day, beginning with Jill Krop and Robin Stickley discussing their own experiences with bullying
Dr. Jennifer Newman speaks about bullying that can happen in the workplace
Calgary police officer Tad Milmine discusses his “Bullying Ends Here” campaign he led while with Surrey RCMP
Dr. Lisa Ferrari talks about how the psychology of bullying works
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