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Rich East High School or REHS is a public four-year high school located in Park Forest, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago in the United States. Rich East's campus serves the cities of Park Forest, Matteson, Olympia Fields, Chicago Heights and Richton Park. It is a part of Rich Township District 227, which also includes Rich South High School and Rich Central High School. ==History== Rich East High school was the first of its district to open in 1952, but was originally called Rich Township High school. This was the school's name until the construction of Rich Central High School in 1961 and Rich South High School in 1972, which now make up the three schools of district 227. Rich East was originally held in the Faith United Protestant Church until Park Forest gave them the open land to build the school. The land was only open and given to them for free by the villagers of Park Forest because it was mostly composed of clay, which is not suitable to build upon. Many old students remember that for many years, cement had to be pumped underneath the school's main gym so that it would not sink. The Media Center, in the front of the building was also built on unstable ground and after several days of rain, water would rise up into the carpet, making it difficult to breathe. The head librarian would scramble to save books. There is a lagoon on the campus. In nice weather, students would sit around it during lunch times. In the winter, if it froze enough, the surface would be smoothed and people would ice skate on it. The school yearbook was named "The Lagoon" after it. Rich East High School was originally predominately white with some African Americans and it also held many Jewish students. Teachers were not allowed to give out homework or assign tests on Jewish holidays. Teachers were also very strict about boys and girls showing affection in school; if a boy and a girl were holding hands, some teachers would simply tell them to stop and others would pull their hands apart. In the 1970s, students were vocal and opinionated in their school newspaper, The Reveillier. The articles were radically left wing in a predominantly right wing school and city. Most of the students just ignored the paper altogether, but the school board tried unsuccessfully to censor and even close it down.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.richeast.org/history/lingner.html )〕 Another notable fact about Rich East was that it had a working, student-run radio station in the '70s, very progressive for high schools at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rich East High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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