High school election coming up in OP & RF, where the elite meet to learn.
For 10 or 15 minutes last night (3/3) at a forum sponsored by APPLE, the black parents group, at Oak Park & River Forest High School, six candidates for the OPRF board firmly assured 70 or so listeners of their full support, in some cases overriding support, for early-childhood education.
“It’s not an option to ignore any [educational] level,” said Rosa Higgs, a teacher. “I know that when I am on the board, OPRF will reach out to every pre-school. We are all one learning community,” . . . .
My Oak Park Items blog at the Wednesday Journal has the definitive account. Other issues: the black-white achievement gap, disciplining of black boys, honors courses and black students, outsourcing (privatizing) maintenance work.
Blithe Spirit 