New Trier students fight for fairness.

New Trier High School.

Last week, over 1,000 CPS students took buses to the North Shore to dramatically illustrate the school funding gap that exists in Illinois. While Mayor Daley called them “selfish” and media types cried the blues about James Meeks turning New Trier into a “whipping boy,” actual New Trier students were getting together to fight for the fair funding Meeks was speaking about.

Like New Trier senior Matt McCambridge.

Reported Wilmette Life:

After meeting with Chicago Public Schools students on Sept. 2 and listening to their stories of malfeasance, corruption and malcontent, McCambridge formed a coalition between New Trier students and Chicago Public School students to lobby politicians in Springfield to correct educational inequalities in Illinois.

“I thought the boycott was an important way to draw attention to the issue. I know at New Trier it is something that people rarely think about. Not because they are not concerned with it but because it isn’t within their immediate radar,” said McCambridge.

But the boycott, he explained, changed all that.

“I suppose that you can read about conditions in the city but when you hear about them face to face it creates a whole other experience. It is very impactful that way.”