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I thank each of you who purchased prize tickets from me, contributed baked goods or cash to both organizations and cooked or provided food for the carnival box suppers. I appreciate all of you who make my job easier. Thanks.
SARAH LATHAM
Amissville
School board
challenged
As a 1994 graduate of
Rappahannock High School, I would like to issue a call to action to the county’s school board.
On Saturday, July 19, with little fanfare or publicity, a group of 13 people gathered at a home in Washington, Va. for Rappahannock’s first lesbian and gay pride event. Lesbians, gays, their families and friends came from miles around to my mother’s front yard and made a strong and powerful statement: We must protect lesbian and gay students in our nation’s school.
Among those attending a screening of the landmark film’s It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School were three graduates of the county’s school system. Two (including myself) were gay students who faced humiliating anti-gay harassment during our high school years, and one was a heterosexual graduate who was appalled at the treatment her gay classmate received in the halls of Rappahannock High.
I am asking that the county’s school board view Debra Chasnoff’s groundbreaking film and that they issue a strong statement to teachers that anti-gay harassment should not be tolerated in the halls of our schools, and that Rappahannock values all students and strives to provide a hate-free and safe learning environment.
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