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[quote=Anonymous]NP here as well as GDS parent. Maybe I missed up thread, but here goes: GDS started using first names when the school was founded by seven black and Jewish families in the 1940s, when their kids were shut out of every independent in the District. This practice wasn't hatched by some youthful yippees huffing on a blunt in the '70s, but was a very deliberate decision made nearly three decades earlier by two groups with long histories of discrimination in schools as well as the public square. Second, GDS' "free to be me"/gay pride week is an affirmation of every family, whether gay or straight, with children at the school. There is no proselytizing for the "gay" team, simply a recognition of all the members of the community. Finally, LGBTs teens have one of the highest rates of suicide. If building an inclusive community through assemblies and marches forestalls just one kid from taking his or her life, I am all in.[/quote]
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