High School Offering Race-Segregated Math Classes Slapped With Civil Rights Complaint

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High School Offering Race-Segregated Math Classes Slapped With Civil Rights Complaint

Reagan Reese on May 1, 2023

An Illinois high school offering several math courses restricted to students based on their race has been hit with a civil rights complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Mark Perry, Senior Fellow at Do No Harm, a medical watchdog group, filed a civil rights complaint against Evanston Township High School for offering several algebra, calculus and precalculus courses open only to students who are black or “latinx.” The complaint, filed to the Chicago Office for Civil Rights, identifies several classes that are “restricted to students who identify as Latinx, all genders,” or restricted to students who “identify as Black, all genders,” according to the 2023-2023 course catalog.

In the 2023-2024 school year, the high school is offering “AP [Advanced Placement] Calculus AB” which is equivalent to “one semester of college calculus” and is “restricted to students who identify as Black, all genders,” the course catalog showed. An identical course limits enrollment to students who “identify as Latinx, all genders.”


However, the high school is offering an identical calculus course that does not restrict enrollment on the basis of race, the 2023-2024 course catalog showed.


The high school is also offering a precalculus class in the 2023-2024 school year that is limited to students who identify as black, according to the course catalog. An additional precalculus course is being offered for the upcoming school year that is restricted to students who identify as Latinx.

An identical precalculus course with no racial enrollment restrictions is also offered to students, the high school course catalog showed.

In January, Evanston Township School District’s board of education discussed how it would address the low enrollment of students of color in accelerated courses, according to the Daily Northwestern. The district’s Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Pete Bavis suggested that the school offer students identity-based courses to make the accelerated classes more accessible to underrepresented groups.

The number of civil rights complaints filed to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights hit record high in the last year; from October 2021 to September 2022, complaints alleging discrimination in the nation’s schools almost doubled from the previous year, with nearly 19,000 filed, according to The New York Times. Most of the complaints name discrimination on the basis of race and sex.

Evanston Township High School did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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