'We have to find ways of getting community input that doesn’t result in yelling,' said one La Grange resident.
Area residents and high school students prepare to leave Hinsdale South High School in Darien after the District 86 Board of Education upheld its mask requirement in schools on Feb. 10, 2022.
Of 1,000 residents surveyed, 44% said they have heard about the fighting, yelling or contention at school board meetings, and 66% said they don’t approve of that behavior at the meetings. During Thursday’s virtual news conference announcing the data, Griffin also spoke about poll takers’ concerns regarding shortages of teachers and education support staff, with survey results showing 81% of respondents saying students will perform worse as a result of the deficit.
“When people say, ‘We should not teach CRT’ my first question is, ‘What do you think CRT is?” Griffin said. “Because I know critical race theory is a theory that is taught at a graduate level in college. We do not teach theories in our pre-K-12 system. It’s really important that people are asked that question.”
“Oftentimes people think if you are teaching about racism, you are telling people that they are racist, which is not true. What you are sharing is our history,” Griffin said. “Learning what has happened in the past and the errors that were made will allow us to not make those errors in the future — knowledge is so powerful.”
Briana Bill, a La Grange resident who lives in the Lyons Township High School district, said she doesn’t have children in the school system. But in the last two years, she’s heard more about school board issues than she has since moving to La Grange in 1996.
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