Calif. school dons skirts in honor of burn victim
Students and staff members at a small private high school in California wore skirts to class on Friday to show solidarity with an 18-year-old senior who suffered serious burns when his clothes were set on fire on a public bus.
Luke "Sasha" Fleischman's classmates at Maybeck High School in Berkeley came up with the idea of trading pants and shorts for kilts and sarongs as a way of condemning the attack and supporting Fleischman while the teen recovers at a San Francisco hospital, school director Trevor Cralle said.
"The students wanted to rally their support for Sasha, so they came up with the idea of wearing skirts because that's what Sasha likes to do and what Sasha was wearing when Sasha was lit on fire," said Cralle, who wore a type of floral sarong known as a "lava-lava" that is worn by both men and woman in the Pacific Islands.
Cralle did not have a count of how many of Maybeck High's 110 students were sporting skirts, but he said there was widespread participation. "Everybody, students and staff, male and female, is wearing skirts," he said.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Calif-school-dons-skirts-in-honor-of-burn-victim-4967951.php
Great Kids. Video at the link.
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