IL school cancels mandatory ‘white privilege’ lessons after 800 parents protest at board meeting | EAGnews.org

IL school cancels mandatory ‘white privilege’ lessons after 800 parents protest at board meeting | EAGnews.org:
"WINNETKA, Ill. – An affluent Chicago area school is dumping its mandatory “white privilege” day for students after hundreds of parents flooded a school board meeting to denounce the “political indoctrination.”
New Trier High School assistant superintendent Tim Hayes put the kibosh on a second mandatory “All-School Seminar Day” at an April school board meeting after more than 800 parents showed up to a meeting in February to complain about this year’s event, the North Cook News reports.
The parent complaints about the seminar’s wildly liberal slant and unbalanced focus on white privilege theory can on the same day more than 950 students skipped the event, which featured seminars like

• “Whose Civil Rights? Transpeople of Color Navigating the U.S.,” 
• “Western Bias in Science,” 
• “Blackenomics 101,” 
• “21st Century Voter Supression” (sic), and others.

For Blackenomics 101, for example, “Rapper, entertainer, and activist, John the Author explore(d) systemic racism in relation to building a black business and artist presence in minority communities,” according to the event’s agenda..."