Our nationally recognized No Place for Hate program is rooted in the strong relationship each of our four schools has with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). During the 2023-2024 school year, the LRHSD schools earned their No Place for Hate designation for the twelfth consecutive year. The No Place for Hate program helps schools challenge anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia and all forms of bigotry.  We use it as an umbrella for both existing and new programs that reduce bias and bullying.

In order to earn the No Place for Hate designation, each school must create at least three projects that challenge students to think more critically and engage in meaningful activities that explore the value of diversity and teach skills to stop bias and bullying. All four Lenape Regional High Schools completed the requirements to become No Place for Hate for another school year.  Some of these projects include participation in ADL’s Peer Training program; attending the ADL’s Youth Leadership Conference in December in Philadelphia; training school staff and hosting book discussions on DEI issues; and holding multiple activities for the NJ Week of Respect and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  All of these projects gave students and educators the opportunity to explore the concepts of identity and diversity and learn to understand and respect difference.

The LRHSD school’s commitment to No Place for Hate is reinforced each year through the meaningful and impactful projects that the schools undertake, and the schools have served as a model for other area schools’ participation.  No matter how many new districts adopt No Place for Hate, however, the LRHSD will always be the first complete No Place for Hate school district in New Jersey.