McLean’s Commitment to Diversity/Equity

McLean School’s commitment to diversity/equity is an extension of our long-standing commitment to learning styles and differences.

McLean embraces diversity and values the integrity of all individuals. We offer equitable opportunity to learn from the wealth that diversity renders to all community members in the recognition of differences of ethnicity, race, religion, socio-economic status, culture, color, sexual orientation, or gender. This recognition enriches our community and encourages our students to be better leaders and more responsible citizens. We believe that our students will acquire an appreciative sensitivity to different people and cultures and that they will be more secure in themselves and better prepared to enjoy the richness and possibilities of the wonderfully diverse world they will inherit.

Toward this end, McLean School commits itself:

to continue to develop a school culture and curricula that will teach our students both the skills and the sensibilities necessary for living in a world of change and difference;
to achieve an educationally enriching level of diversity in the student body, faculty, staff, and Board of Trustees;
to provide the resources and support equitably to secure the self-esteem of every child;

We expect that all community members will support diversity/equity at McLean School, just as we expect that all community members will benefit from that work.

Adopted by the Board of Trustees: March 1997