I am writing to applaud the Lexington Public School system in its efforts to provide curricula that acknowledges and embraces the extraordinary diversity of all people living on this planet, and to instill the fact that all people (of all races, ethnicities, faiths, abilities, sexual orientations, gender identities, citizenship and immigration statuses, socioeconomic circumstances, etc.) be treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve.  What lesson could be more important?  Anything less would be a disservice to our youth.  Erasure of “the other” would be of incalculable harm to all concerned.

Sincerely,

Anne Engelhart

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