reverse discrimination comes our way in a large fashion;

"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," West Cook News reports.

From West Cook News:

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.

"Traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities and intensify the opportunity gap," reads a slide in the PowerPoint deck outlining its rationale and goals.

It calls for what OPRF leaders describe as "competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book…encouraging and rewarding growth over time."

Teachers are being instructed how to measure student "growth" while keeping the school leaders' political ideology in mind.

"Teachers and administrators at OPRFHS will continue the process necessary to make grading improvements that reflect our core beliefs," the plan states, promising to "consistently integrate equitable assessment and grading practices into all academic and elective courses" by fall 2023.........read more.....