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Embrace truth and reason while embracing intellectual diversity in the classroom and village square
Free Enterprise
Encourage innovation and excellence to create vibrant communities that value people, businesses and human capacity
The Golden Rule
Treat each other with civility as we build communities where diverse individuals and families will flourish
Latest News
Read below for news from New Trier Neighbors. Subscribe to our newsletter here.
Our latest newsletters!
New Trier promotes civil discourse at the start of this school year! Plus info on our next event — click here or scroll below.
Update on the Freedom of Religion Flag! Plus special April 21st screening of Eli Steele’s latest film (it’s been taken off YouTube and Vimeo — so only way to see it here is at this event! Click here see below!)
New Trier Neighbors proposes Freedom of Religion Flag to Village of Wilmette and Wilmette/Glencoe/Highland seeks to hired a shared DEI consultant. Read more here.
Cancellation of Holocaust Remembrance Day at New Trier. Read more here.
Year in Review, plus our first program of 2024 with Ian Rowe. Read more here.
The Near Cancellation of Carols at Crow Island School … read more here.
Other news from New Trier Neighbors:
“Cornhole the ear-c*nt” and other phrases from a New Trier sophomore English short story assignment. Read more here.
Using Macbeth to Teach Radical Gender Theory at New Trier. Plus, information about opting out on Two Boys Kissing and our next NTN event. Read more here.
New Trier Doubles Down on Racial Equity Agenda – It’s “K-12 work” “just like English and Math.” Read more here.
Candidates Hand-Picked by Winnetka Caucus Decline to Appear at League of Women Voters’ Forum. Read more here.
Mother Jones credits Parents of New Trier (predecessor to New Trier Neighbors) with starting the parents movement! Read more here.
New Trier Adopts Civil Discourse/Critical Thinking Statement. Read more here.
For past issues of the New Trier Neighbors newsletter click here.
Events
Join us September 19 – 6:30 p.m. for our next NTN live event!
“Ideas Have Consequences.” In 2024 these words ring as true as they did when Richard Weaver penned his famous book with this title just after WWII.
On September 19th, come hear economist, New Trier High School graduate, and current and former Donald Trump economic advisor Stephen Moorediscuss what’s at stake in November’s election. Pastor Corey Brooks of Project HOOD on Chicago’s South Side will join Steve to discuss education, energy, economic policy and more, and how policy decisions after the elections will play out for Americans across the demographic spectrum.
Register for the live event here. Space is limited!
Net proceeds from this event will support deserving students from Woodlawn’s Project HOOD who are going on to post-secondary education. We will make two grants on September 19th in our second year of issuing the GameChangers NewTrier Neighbors grants — plus we’ll share updates on past grant recipients.
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