Today we launched our letter to principals and school leadership, with ideas about different ways in which schools could celebrate lgbtqia+ youth on Aug 31st.
Let’s encourage our school communities to celebrate diversity on Wear It Purple Day, Aug 31st !
We are all different, it’s what makes our community such a wonderful place to live: the colourful mix of cultures, sexuality, pet owners, religions, skills and more, needs to be celebrated.
The more all diversity is celebrated and embraced the easier it will be for our kids to be proud to be themselves no matter who they are, and to embrace differences in others.
Wear it Purple Day celebrates the diversity of families and provides support and inclusion for kids from rainbow families and those that are discovering their own LGBTQIA+ identity.
Celebrating it is simple!
Please approach the principal and school leadership team of your local school to encourage them to celebrate diversity with Wear It Purple Day. We've written a letter that explains why this is important, suggests ways schools can participate, and has info about how schools can get all the awesome FREE merchandise.
And if your school is reluctant to do something officially, check out the letter for suggestions about what you can do to celebrate diversity and Wear It Purple on August 31st.
Share this around, and let's get as many school communities as possible to Wear It Purple!!!!
And you can check out our website for more info about how you can Wear It Purple.
https://www.rainbowsinschools.org/wear-it-purple-day/
Ideas for using the letter:
- You can email it to your school's principal and your child's teachers. Or print it, and take it in person.
- Why not email it to your friends in the school community, so they can do the same? The more people that email or talk to the school about Wear It Purple, the more likely they are to recognize its importance and celebrate it.
- How about making it a post on your Facebook page, and sending it to the school's parents' Facebook group, inviting them to bring it up with the school?
- And what about posting it in other social media where parents and teachers will see it?
- And for teachers - you can send it to other teachers via email or social media so that they can use it in their schools. And how about sending it to your union and other professional groups so they can publicize it?
