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Crude Work: School and Student Groups

crude work: Gladstone secondary was vandalized Feb. 19, 2017, according to Vancouver Courier. Photo Facebook He described the crude work as words and symbols that were offensive and disgusting. Located in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood, which is home to many immigrants and residents from diverse backgrounds, the graffiti appeared Feb. 20 and was covered the next morning, said the school's principal Chris Parker. Reaction against the threatening graffiti came from politicians, student groups as well as the school. The words that are important to us are on a banner that sits outside the front door of this school every day in broad daylight, wrote Parker in a message printed on Gladstone letterhead. It is important to me and to us that those words and images were quickly painted over as they have no place at this school, in this community, or in this country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.