Longtime OPRFHS history teacher departs the school citing ‘the continued toll of antisemitism’ there

A veteran Oak Park-River Forest High School history teacher resigned recently because of what he said in his resignation letter was “the continued toll of antisemitism at OPRF – and the district’s lack of response to the antisemitism and lack of support for Jewish students, parents and teachers.” Michael Soffer submitted his resignation letter to OPRFHS officials on June 5, one day after he was hired to teach history at Lake Forest High School in northwest suburban Lake Forest. In the letter, a copy of which Pioneer Press obtained through a public records request, Soffer, also a 2003 graduate of […]