I’m so old I remember when segregation was considered a bad thing. Evanston Township High (ETHS), just north of Chicago, created all-black and all-Hispanic math classes, plus a pre-calculus class restricted to black males, reports Amber Athey in The Spectator.
Four classes on the school’s website — Algebra 2 and AP Calculus — were listed as “restricted to students who identify as black” or “restricted to students who identify as Latinx.” A fifth class, pre-calculus was “restricted” to black males. Other classes in the same subjects were listed as open to all students.
Contacted by The Spectator, school officials said the course listings are inaccurate. No class is “restricted” by race, ethnicity or gender. However, certain sections are “intended to support” black or “Latinx” or black, male students.
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