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Students in T-shirt Controversy Walk For Charity

Monday 30th of June 2008 02:08:06 AM

Two teens weren’t sure what to do last Friday night when they found they needed to be in two places at once. The soon-to-be eighth-graders were supposed to attend Any Fest, a benefit to raise money for the funeral of a family friend and Relay For Life, a fundraiser for cancer research they vowed to attend months ago.

So, after spending some time at Any Fest, the boys walked over to Bristol Motor Speedway and joined about 2,000 others who turned out to walk for cancer research, they said.

One of the boys, Michael, said, “Cancer is not going to stop until you stop it yourself.”

In April, the Vance Middle School students sparked a controversy at their school when they passed out a number of purple, Relay for Life T-Shirts to fellow students that some school officials said caused a disruption. The T-shirts were banned by school administrators who said the students were painting the fundraiser in a bad light by misbehaving while wearing them.

The students said they were trying to draw attention to the cancer benefit and they claimed the principal and vice principal banned both the shirts and the colour purple after accusing them of starting a “purple gang,” – a charge that was denied by school officials. After a week of bitter controversy, the school administrators acquiesced and permitted the students to wear the garments and the students promised to follow through with their efforts by attending the June benefit.

Michael said, “Cancer is really taking over the world. People need to be more conscious about smoking and being out in the sun. I’m really proud that we got through this and I just hope my teachers take what we did not as a prank – and know that it wasn’t a gang or anything,”

The two teen boys said they were glad they made it to the fundraiser and they felt they learned something from the whole brouhaha. They both stated that they wouldn’t change a thing.

(c)Adriaan de Man, www.sxc.hu