North Cook News

Joe Biden won a mock election that was carried out at New Trier High School earlier this week.

The high school has increasingly become a hotbed for leftism, with this mock election solidifying that. Biden won the mock election with 74.1% of the students’ votes.

New Trier is noted to have made the news often for its leftist education, including:

• Last year social studies teacher Kerry Hall provided a handout to his students suggesting they volunteer at Planned Parenthood or another similar agency as a way of averting climate change. Other suggestions on the list included running for office or joining with Chicago Area Peace Action. 
• The high school held an all-day student seminar in 2017 on “white privilege” at a cost of more than $27,000. Critics felt the seminar could be considered indoctrination. 
• Mimi Rodman, the executive director of Stand for Children Illinois, brought a petition before the New Trier High School District board meeting in 2017 asking for the seminar that later became the “white privilege” seminar, but what she had requested was one disguised as a civil rights seminar. 
• The district paid nearly $90,000 for consultants to teach the teachers and staff at the high school about “whiteness” and why it causes Black and Hispanic students to have lower test scores. https://northcooknews.com/stories/511083558-new-trier-schools-paid-nearly-90k-for-group-to-instruct-teachers-on-whiteness

An email was sent out Thursday by Student Council President Kenny Dolin with the results of the mock election.

“The NT 2020 Mock Election results are in!” Dolin wrote. “This year, we saw a significant increase in voter turnout, with a total participation of 50.7% of students. We saw almost an equal turnout across grades and genders.”

The results were 1,498 votes for Biden and 399 votes — 19.71% — for President Donald Trump. The remaining votes were cast for third-party candidates, Dolin said in the email.

“According to the votes of New Trier students, with 1017 votes or 54.47% the Graduated Income Tax Amendment passed,” Dolin wrote. “There were 850 or 45.53% opposed to the tax.”