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 newspaperB次元官网网址檚 website, along with a message voicing her displeasure.

The sign reads, B次元官网网址淔inally my winter fat is gone! Now I have spring rolls.B次元官网网址�

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

B次元官网网址淚n todayB次元官网网址檚 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 girlB次元官网网址檚 mind go when arriving at school with a message like this at the door?B次元官网网址� she wrote.

Messages on the sign, on 72nd Avenue, are changed every 10 days with the help of students in the schoolB次元官网网址檚 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 schoolB次元官网网址檚 sign-message program, Finley said the principal shouldnB次元官网网址檛 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.

B次元官网网址淚 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,B次元官网网址� Finley said in her email. B次元官网网址淏oth were mortified. Note that these two young women are both on the round side in body figure.B次元官网网址�

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 B次元官网网址淚 told a chemistry joke. There was no reactionB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址淲hat if the algebra teachers are really pirates and are using us to find X.B次元官网网址�

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

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