Thursday, June 23
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Reminder to those students who are assigned that tonight is the last DLR of the year after school today in Rm. 134. Attention all term 3 IA students. We will have a short meeting in the IA classroom at the start of lunch. Attention all grade 7 students: The annual Mace competition is happening tomorrow, and we need grade 7 judges! If you are interested in being a judge, please see Miss Butler in her room, TODAY at morning recess. The first 5 students to show up will be selected. Happy Pride Month! An American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBTQ2IA+ rights activist. Jennings is one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender. Jennings received national attention in 2007 when an interview with Barbra Walters aired on 20/20, which led to other high-profile interviews and appearances. Her parents noted that Jennings was clear on being female as soon as she could speak. Jennings is a co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, which she and her parents founded in 2007 to assist transgender youth. In 2013, she founded Purple Rainbow Trails, a company in which she fashions rubber mermaid tails to raise money for transgender children. Jennings stars in the TLC reality TV series, I Am Jazz, which focus on her life with her family as a teenage and as a transgender youth, and has a YouTube series of the same name. |