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Diversity: It's Everybody's FocusDistrict 742's commitment to diversity is so strong it's written into our mission statement:
Our commitment to diversity is as beautiful as the many-hued faces in our classrooms. It's as real as our policies against hazing, harassment and violence, gender discrimination and disability discrimination. It's as vital as the person who staffs our Diversity Services Office, Gary Loch. Contact Gary today to learn why District 742, more than any other Central Minnesota school district, lives and breathes America's most important societal virtues -- tolerance and cultural relativity. Resource Guide for American Indian FamiliesStudents from Dr. Jeanne Lacourt's Contemporary American Indian Issues class at St. Cloud State University have developed a resource guide for Native American youth. The three-page document has contact and web site information in areas such as education, school financial aid, health care, shelter, crisis intervention and government. View the Native American Youth Resource Guide. Meaning of DiversityDiversity is difficult to define because it embraces many concepts,
including tolerance, cultural relativity, equality, fairness and
support for minority points of views. In lieu of a definition, we
offer quotations from famous women and men who have wrestled with
these concepts: We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish
together as fools. I believe that if we really want humankind to spread and increase
until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that
there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance
and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing
these things to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous
effort. To hate a person because he was born in another country, because
he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different
view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore
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