Dear Editor,
We, the undersigned, support the rights of students and teachers
to participate in The Day of Silence. The issue isn’t instructional
time, politics in the classroom, or
”
social engineering.
”
The issue is hate.
Dear Editor,
We, the undersigned, support the rights of students and teachers to participate in The Day of Silence. The issue isn’t instructional time, politics in the classroom, or “social engineering.” The issue is hate.
Every day, at schools all over the United States, gay and lesbian students are cursed, humiliated and assaulted. All too often, their voices are not heard. The Day of Silence says their voices must be heard.
If The Day of Silence had been in support of African-American students who had been taunted with racial slurs, if it had been in support of young women who had been the victims of rape, if it had been in support of people struggling against dictatorship, or if it had been in support of the victims of terrorist attack, there would have been no outrage at the board meeting.
Peter Gray; Valerie Hunt; Nicky Austin;
Madelene De Rollo; Robert Lawrence; Mark Carrick; Karen Hockemeyer; Wayne Scott; Kari Williams; Shirley Nunes; Annie Tobin; Joan Martens;
Margaret Ota; Ed Kaufman; Elizabeth Dirks;
Sally Enriquez; Jesus Valdez; Mirra Shernock; Nicholas Bonotto; Un-Young Lamborn; Susie Huerta; Claudia Albright; Erin Coyle; Eric Kuwada;
Katie McCorkle; Dennis Hagins; Anna Schooley and Daniel Dwyer,
Gilroy High School staff members
