"It’s my last year. I’ve stood around too long and I wanted to do something," said David.

They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one.

School principal Stephen Pearl, whom the boys are jokingly calling their agent because he has been handling so many interview requests and e-mails for them, said the basic message of all the calls and e-mails is "could you please pass along congratulations to the boys for standing up."