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Fight for Teachers' Rights
Metro law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity for virtually all Louisville workers. Do our community's educators deserve less protection than everyone else?
Metro law
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Subject: Support Fairness for Educators
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I write this letter asking for your full support of inclusive anti-discrimination policies in the Jefferson County Public Schools.
Thanks to the Jefferson County Teachers Association for its longstanding support to expand anti-discrimination language in the teacher contract.
Teachers are some of the most important people in our lives. They do the day-in and day-out work of preparing youth to succeed in a system that sets up barriers to success based on ethnicity and race, economic situation, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
Teachers work hard, with incredible commitment, and without the comparable pay and working conditions to reflect how much we as a society need them.
Teachers deserve no less than full protection from discrimination, including discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Please do the right thing and support action now on the anti-discrimination effort.
Sincerely,
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Campaign Launched:
November 26, 2007
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"New leadership is needed for new times, but it will not come from finding more wily ways to manipulate the external world. It will come as we who serve and teach and lead find the courage to take an inner journey toward both our shadows and our light—a journey that, faithfully pursued, will take us beyond ourselves to become healers of a wounded world."
-Parker J. Palmer, Ph.D.
The question before the Board is:
Are our teachers, custodians, bus drivers, principals, and cafeteria workers entitled to the same protection, justice, and fair and equal treatment afforded to employees at Humana, UPS, U of L, and virtually every other Jefferson County employer?
We believe so, and the vast majority of our community agrees.
The time has come for our Board of Education to affirm what this community already knows:
ALL people—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or heterosexual—are entitled to fairness.
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