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.

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

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Messages on the sign, on 72nd Avenue, are changed every 10 days with the help of students in the school含羞草研究社檚 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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