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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">June 3<sup>rd</sup>, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>2020</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Parents,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">This has been a painful of days, weeks, months, and years of the brutal treatment of our families simply because of their skin color, speak a different language, of religion and/or look different.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade lost their lives to police violence.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white;mso-shading-themecolor:
background1">People are attacked because a Black jogger is seen as a thief, an Asian person is accused of bringing a virus into a city, a person speaking Spanish
or Bengali or Arabic is thought to be a suspicious threat. WHY!</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black; background:white; mso-shading-themecolor:background1">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black; background:white; mso-shading-themecolor:background1">There</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> must be a change in our society.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>We as a people must pull together because it’s everyone’s human right to be recognized, respected, and safe in this world.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Join Alice and I this Friday, June 5<sup>th</sup> to our “GET TOGETHER” to talk about what is happening in our communities or if you want to talk about something else that is in your mind that is O.K. too.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Join us on Friday, June 5<sup>th</sup> at 2 – 3 PM at<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an OpEd in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.
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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#0F0F0F;
background:white">"I don't want to see stores looted or even buildings burn, but African Americans have been
living in a burning building for many years, choking on the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible – even if you're choking on it – until you let the sun in. Then you see it's everywhere. As
long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to stay vigilant, because it's always still in the air."</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">With Love and Be Well!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Noemi</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">347-563-4367</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:nmora@schools.nyc.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">nmora@schools.nyc.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alice Auth, LCSW</span></p>
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