Thursday, November 04, 2021

Illinois Public High School board OKs end of tracking for freshmen

Wednesday Journal reports:
The Oak Park and River Forest District 200 Board of Education voted unanimously Oct. 28 to approve a major change to three freshman courses. Come next fall, OPRF freshmen will be placed in one rigorous, high-level course for history, English and world languages, instead of being split up into honors or college prep tracks.
There's more:
“You see that the one distinguishing factor happens to be that most of the students – the vast majority of the students – tracked into honors happen to be white and a disproportionate number of students tracked into the lower courses happen to be minorities?” Martire, who serves as the board secretary, asked Fiorenza.
The leftists of Oak Park dumb down their high school...