It was a story designed to send any conservative into apoplexy. A suburban Chicago high school decided to implement a “race-based” grading system that would supposedly and intentionally benefit Black students over all others by prohibiting the reduction of grades based on truancy, misbehavior, or simply turning homework in late (or not at all).
And for anyone who wanted proof of this scheme, why, there it was in a May 30 story in a local outlet called West Cook News, titled “OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year.”
The only problem, however, as explained by The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan, was that the story was untrue, and the site was from a “local outlet.”