Horizons at CDS Solidarity/Action Statement
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Horizons at Carolina Day stands in solidarity with people of color throughout our community and pledge to continue engaging in the important anti-racist work going on across our country. Horizons is committed to ensuring all children have the opportunity to thrive and learn. Eliminating inequities in education has been central to the work of the Horizons National Network for over 50 years, and recent events remind us why this work is so important: systems that perpetuate, tolerate, or indulge racial injustice have devastating effects on our society and must be transformed.
We understand the communities we serve are disproportionately affected and harmed by violence and racial oppression. While the events we have seen in the last several weeks are heartbreaking, they are not new or isolated. Now and always, we stand with our entire Horizons community. We stand with our students and families. We stand with our staff and volunteers. We are united in our efforts to create an equitable world for our young people. We are committed to doing ongoing work as an organization to help ensure we remain centered in equity and justice in all we do, and we will work to more deeply amplify parent and student voices to inform our programatic choices.
This moment makes our work together even more urgent – to build a society where every individual can experience the joy of learning, build skills for success, and have the inspiration to realize their dreams.