Social Justice High Shelved. Again.

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Nov 19, 2008 3:35PM

So after all that hand-wringing and hoopla surrounding the proposed GBLT-friendly School for Social Justice Pride Campus or whatever they finally decided to call it, planners of the high school have decided to once again shelve plans for the school a day before the plan was to go before the school board. It seems that even after trying to rework the structure of the school so as to allow other "disenfranchised" students, they faced a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation: criticism from opponents who called it segregation and criticism from supporters who decried the new plan as "watered down." Chicago Public School district spokesman Michael Vaughn said, "There are some members of the design team who felt it was watered down too much and there was not enough consensus...to move forward as it stood." So now what? Well, it seems it's back to the drawing board for the team, who plan to come back with a new plan next year and hopes of opening the school in 2010.