New Trier Township High School District 203 Board of Education (seated from left): John Myefski, F. Malcolm “Mac” Harris, Gregory J. Robitaille President (standing from left): Patrick O’Donoghue, Lori A. Goldstein Vice President, Cathleen H. Albrecht, Alan R. Dolinko
NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP – An all-day seminar planned for New Trier High School students on the topic of “Understanding Today’s Struggle for Racial Civil Rights” will continue as planned for February 28th, Board of Education President Greg Robitaille announced on the Daily North Shore's website.
Despite many parents and taxpayers expressing concern about the speakers invited to lecture the New Trier students, more expressed support and justified the Board's decision to proceed:
The Board has considered the input from those in the community who advocate for changes to the February 28th program. We have listened to calls for “conservative viewpoints,” “balance,” and presenting the “other side.” We have heard from those who advocate cancelling the event. We have also heard from many, many more members of our community that Seminar Day should proceed as planned.
The day's speakers are Colter Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad, and Andrew Aylin, assistant to one-time civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis. There is no representative from conservative blacks such as Thomas Sowell, Condeleezza Rice, Dr. Ben Carson and the like.
The board is fine with the topics and the presentation planned:
The view of the Board President and the Superintendent is that this day is intended to discuss, debate, empathize, and learn about issues and different perspectives related to civil rights. We are presenting a diverse set of topics and we are discussing many issues by examining them from different perspectives. A case in point is affirmative action policies and the related session in which we ask, “Do they help or hurt, who do they help or hurt, and are they effective?”
And, the board chairman says, the discussion is not political.
The committee at New Trier designed this seminar to be a pedagogical exercise, not a political one. Therefore, the notion that this day somehow advances an agenda or point of view is just not borne out by the goals and structure of the sessions. Where appropriate, topics will be covered from multiple perspectives. However, we are not going to, for example, question the very existence of racism in furtherance of some extreme notion of balance.
The seminar will go on, President Robitaille said HERE.
The 2015 Illinois State Report Card for New Trier District 203 showed the student population is 85.3 percent white, .6 percent African-American, 3.9 percent Hispanic, 7.4 percent Asian, and .1 percent American Indian.
This is why school board elections matter. All of these leftist poseurs need to be ousted!
I don’t suppose they will teach the true history of the Democrat Party and it’s enforcement wing, the Ku Klux Klan, as the historic violators of racial civil rights.
It is hard to see that this is not political when workshops have titles like “21st Century Voter Supression,” “From Alcatraz to the Dakota Access Pipeline: American
Indian Civil Rights,” (not sure what the pipeline has to do with civil rights), and “Trump, Clinton, and Obama:
How do Race and Gender Affect Portrayal in the Media.”
25% of New Trier township voted for Trump. You can look that up on uselectionatlas. The last Republican Presidential candidate to win New Trier township was George Bush in 1988. None of this is shocking. It’s also the most affluent place in Illinois, which Is just so rich with irony. There are a whole bunch of struggling white people in Illinois. It’s called downstate. It begins surprisingly close to the State of Chicago. Will New Trier call those white people privileged?
Very difficult to get good people to run for school boards. Most of these posts require a lot of time, with little or NO pay.
In small turnout local elections, the value of every vote cast is magnified. If all 25% of the Trump voters in the school district showed up to vote, the school board would have different members elected.
oh no, my conservative political agenda is not represented to my satisfaction at a high school event!
I need Ben Carson to make things better!
Agreed. I just think that it’s a left wing area and I don’t know if anything will change that. I was super curious WHY North Shore suburbs are so liberal, especially compared to DuPage County. Turns out, it’s because a lot of the people there are Jewish and they’re very liberal. DuPage County is leaning left now, but that’s because of an Indian/Asian influx. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/1/3/1176135/-Illinois-10th-Congressional-District-2012-Election-Recap
And ironically – those wonderful lib-Dems in Winnetka voted in a referendum to vote down low-income housing in their elite neighborhoods, only 2 years ago!
How do you spell “Hypocrite”?
Funny how people in Rockford don’t have the right to vote.
I neglected to say that it’s NOT the only reason why these places are or are becoming so liberal. There are plenty of other people who are liberal, too. Smug people. There is a cultural disorder going on among upwardly mobile white people. Much of it is attributable to the higher ed racket.