Amid a surge of reported antisemitic incidents worldwide since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, a wealthy suburban Chicago school district known for forcing students to take racially charged seminars also rejected their Holocaust Remembrance Day proposal.
New Trier Township High School District 203 won’t turn over communications among administrators that could shed light on that decision, however, leaving the superintendent’s claims unrebutted.
Parents Defending Education filed an Illinois Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last week, seeking an order compelling the district to produce emails from 13 administrators, including equity liaisonsTimothy Hayes, Patricia Savage-Williams and Kiran Subhani from Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 that matched the terms “Holocaust,” “Palestine” or “Gaza.”
The district deemed the request “unduly burdensome” relative to “the public interest in the information” and denied it in full March 1, according to the Cook County Circuit Court complaint. That’s balderdash, PDE said: “Both New Trier Township and New Trier High School have a substantial Jewish population.”
President Nicki Neily put the lawsuit in the context of “a massive wave of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in our K-12 schools” across America since Oct. 7, in a Friday fundraising pitch for the nonprofit advocacy group.
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