As she travelled to work Thursday morning, Becky Finley said she did a double-take as she drove by the sign outside Princess Margaret Secondary in Surrey.
She was upset enough by the posted words to turn around, stop and take a photo of the sign and email it to the Surrey Now-Leader via the button on the newspaper91裸聊视频檚 website, along with a message voicing her displeasure.
The sign reads, 91裸聊视频淔inally my winter fat is gone! Now I have spring rolls.91裸聊视频
Finley says the message is unacceptable, especially for a sign in front of a school.
91裸聊视频淚n today91裸聊视频檚 day and age, with the numbers of women, particularly, struggling with body-image issues resulting in low self-esteem and medical problems like anorexia, where would the average girl91裸聊视频檚 mind go when arriving at school with a message like this at the door?91裸聊视频 she wrote.
Messages on the sign, on 72nd Avenue, are changed every 10 days with the help of students in the school91裸聊视频檚 BASES program, or Building Academic Social and Employment Skills.
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Students in the class come up with ideas for the messages, which are then brought to the school principal, Paulo Sarmento, for his final approval.
When told of the school91裸聊视频檚 sign-message program, Finley said the principal shouldn91裸聊视频檛 have approved the current one.
91裸聊视频淭he signs are usually interesting, they91裸聊视频檙e amusing, they91裸聊视频檙e funny. I look for them sometimes, and I never saw anything that wasn91裸聊视频檛 appropriate, until now,91裸聊视频 Finley told the Now-Leader in a phone interview.
91裸聊视频淚 think the students are doing a good job in creating the signs,91裸聊视频 she said, 91裸聊视频渂ut it91裸聊视频檚 the principal who vetted this and allowed this to pass. The students may not be aware of these issues, with weight and body image, unless they91裸聊视频檙e going through it themselves.91裸聊视频
Finley said she intends to call the school, or the school board, in an effort to have the current message removed.
Finley said her daughter is a former student at Princess Margaret.
91裸聊视频淚 sent it (the photo of the sign) to her and another former student, who are both now in their 30s, to ask them what kind of backlash they would have felt showing up at school with this sign present on the front lawn of the school,91裸聊视频 Finley said in her email. 91裸聊视频淏oth were mortified. Note that these two young women are both on the round side in body figure.91裸聊视频
A school sign is the wrong place for such a message, Finley said.
91裸聊视频淎t a school where you have a large population of young people susceptible to body image, especially girls, it91裸聊视频檚 not appropriate. It91裸聊视频檚 an inflammatory message for a school,91裸聊视频 she added.
Some time ago, administrators of the school decided to go with humorous, timely and sometimes seasonal messages on the sign, rather than the typical Report Card Day and Band Concert reminders, and got the BASES students involved.
The result has been some creative quotes, such as 91裸聊视频淚 told a chemistry joke. There was no reaction91裸聊视频 and 91裸聊视频淲hat if the algebra teachers are really pirates and are using us to find X.91裸聊视频
Sarmento was not at the school on Thursday, and therefore not available for comment.
The goal, Sarmento told the Now-Leader in December, is 91裸聊视频渢o make people smile as they drive by our school.91裸聊视频 I have people calling the school now commenting on our school sign.
91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 taken off,91裸聊视频 the principal added. 91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檝e got people calling me saying, 91裸聊视频楬ey, what91裸聊视频檚 with your signs? They91裸聊视频檙e good.91裸聊视频 And the kids love it when they hear this stuff, right? They91裸聊视频檙e proud.91裸聊视频