Multiple students participated in The Day of Silence today. There were no stickers or shirts or anything like that. It was just the speaking cards that our library had let us copy in school and the message written on our hands.

We were silent the whole day, we didn't stop. All of us kept on going throughout the whole day. We showed the cards to our teachers, handed them out at school. The response was amazing. There are about 1750 Kids in our school. All of us together got at least 150 to take part, mostly sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The teachers were very understanding, and proud that we were sticking up for something that we believed in. One of my close friends, who just got outed that she was bisexual, wore as many gay pride items that she could. I got a rainbow ribbon and wore it all day. The response was amazing. There were a lot of people that thought we were crazy, but we kept on going.

I got one of the most homophobic kids in my school take part after explaining this all to him. In turn that got many more to help out. At the end of the day, everyone was smiling, communicating between notebooks, texting only if it was vital and everything else. I have never been more proud of my school. Everyone who had participated had found something rainbow to wear, or had asked someone to draw a rainbow on them. There were a lot of tears to share today. I had a piece of paper on my shirt which listed all the people who had been victims of hate crimes, and everyone felt it. It was an amazing day, and most everyone understood.

Thank you for uniting a school.
Thank you for helping people understand.
I am one more person who hopefully made a difference.