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Parker Participates in the Pride Parade
Parker was very proud to have a group of dedicated and passionate faculty, staff and students organize the school’s participation in Chicago’s Pride Parade 2022.
This is the fourth year Parker has sponsored a slot in the parade and the first Pride Parade in three years due to the pandemic. The event came right on the heels of Parker’s first all-school Pride Week at the end of the last school year. Thirty-one alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends joined together to represent Parker in the parade. “We went through 4,000 pencils, 100 t-shirts, 98 bottles of water, 87 snack packs and tons of fun as we marched the four-mile parade route,” Lower and Intermediate School Spanish teacher Karen Liszka said.
This is the fourth year Parker has sponsored a slot in the parade and the first Pride Parade in three years due to the pandemic. The event came right on the heels of Parker’s first all-school Pride Week at the end of the last school year. Thirty-one alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends joined together to represent Parker in the parade. “We went through 4,000 pencils, 100 t-shirts, 98 bottles of water, 87 snack packs and tons of fun as we marched the four-mile parade route,” Lower and Intermediate School Spanish teacher Karen Liszka said.
Francis W. Parker School educates students to think and act with empathy, courage and clarity as responsible citizens and leaders in a diverse democratic society and global community.