As she travelled to work Thursday morning, Becky Finley said she did a double-take as she drove by the sign outside Princess Margaret Secondary in Surrey.

She was upset enough by the posted words to turn around, stop and take a photo of the sign and email it to the Surrey Now-Leader via the button on the newspaper害羞草研究所檚 website, along with a message voicing her displeasure.

The sign reads, 害羞草研究所淔inally my winter fat is gone! Now I have spring rolls.害羞草研究所�

Finley says the message is unacceptable, especially for a sign in front of a school.

害羞草研究所淚n today害羞草研究所檚 day and age, with the numbers of women, particularly, struggling with body-image issues resulting in low self-esteem and medical problems like anorexia, where would the average girl害羞草研究所檚 mind go when arriving at school with a message like this at the door?害羞草研究所� she wrote.

Messages on the sign, on 72nd Avenue, are changed every 10 days with the help of students in the school害羞草研究所檚 BASES program, or Building Academic Social and Employment Skills.

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Students in the class come up with ideas for the messages, which are then brought to the school principal, Paulo Sarmento, for his final approval.

When told of the school害羞草研究所檚 sign-message program, Finley said the principal shouldn害羞草研究所檛 have approved the current one.

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Finley said she intends to call the school, or the school board, in an effort to have the current message removed.

Finley said her daughter is a former student at Princess Margaret.

害羞草研究所淚 sent it (the photo of the sign) to her and another former student, who are both now in their 30s, to ask them what kind of backlash they would have felt showing up at school with this sign present on the front lawn of the school,害羞草研究所� Finley said in her email. 害羞草研究所淏oth were mortified. Note that these two young women are both on the round side in body figure.害羞草研究所�

A school sign is the wrong place for such a message, Finley said.

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Some time ago, administrators of the school decided to go with humorous, timely and sometimes seasonal messages on the sign, rather than the typical Report Card Day and Band Concert reminders, and got the BASES students involved.

The result has been some creative quotes, such as 害羞草研究所淚 told a chemistry joke. There was no reaction害羞草研究所� and 害羞草研究所淲hat if the algebra teachers are really pirates and are using us to find X.害羞草研究所�

Sarmento was not at the school on Thursday, and therefore not available for comment.

The goal, Sarmento told the Now-Leader in December, is 害羞草研究所渢o make people smile as they drive by our school.害羞草研究所� I have people calling the school now commenting on our school sign.

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