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OPRF; Times, They Are a Changin’

For those of you who might not be aware I was born in Chicago, and lived on the far west side of the city till age sixteen. Yes, times change as this Austin district on Chicago’s west side is now one of the hotbeds of shootings and murder in the city. (On Memorial Day weekend 51 injured and 9 killed in shootings in the Windy City.) Just west of Austin Blvd. which is Chicago’s western border is the suburb of Oak Park. For what it’s worth I went to Catholic grade school and high school in Oak Park, and used to go to dances and football games at Oak Park River Forest (OPRF) high school. Back in the day OPRF was a very good high school, and, in fact, students from adjacent suburbs would pay to be able to go to OPRF high school. But times, they are changin.’

News flash … “Wokeness” has hit Oak Park River Forest high school.

From PJmedia:

“The local Oak Park and River Forest High School has many distinguished alums and has won awards for being one of the best high schools in the country.

And I suppose that next year it still will be — for the white (and presumably Asian) kids:

Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.

School board members discussed the plan called “Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading” at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.

In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.”

Wow, times they are a changin’ … but for the better?

However there seems to be a bigger problem at OPRF as indicated by the following from West Cook News:

According to the Illinois State Board of Education 38 percent of OPRF sophomore students taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) failed.

The OPRF failure rate was 77 percent for black students, 49 percent for Hispanics, 27 percent for Asians and 25 percent for whites.

Still from PJMedia:

“George W. Bush, in one of the memorable things he ever said, described “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

OPRF High School is putting that into action, and the stink of it is going to stick to every minority kid who graduates from there, including the kids who do the work and earn real grades.”

6/1/22

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