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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Challenging New Trier's honoring of Rumsfeld

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Challenging New Trier's honoring of Rumsfeld

Challenging New Trier's honoring of Rumsfeld

Teachers at wealthy north shore, suburban New Trier High School did a great job of educating at least some of their students. The evidence? Not just the test scores that go with the territory at New Trier.

Senior class president Jeremy Levine-Drizin said he and a friend have begun circulating a petition among students and faculty calling for Donald Rumsfeld's removal from it's honoree list, calling it a "moral issue."