Bremen Community High School District 228
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Bremen Community High School District 228 is a public high school district covering about 29 square miles in Bremen Township in South Cook County, Illinois in the suburbs of Chicago. It serves about 5,000 students at four different schools.
BHSD 228 was founded in 1953 to serve the area which had previously been assigned to Thorton Township public high schools. The original school that the district is named after is
- Bremen High School in Midlothian, Illinois, 1953
Further population increases in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in other schools opening in the Bremen district, including:
- Tinley Park High School in Tinley Park, Illinois, 1961
- Hillcrest High School in Country Club Hills, Illinois, 1967
- Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois, 1970
This school district serves the communities of Midlothian, Posen, Tinley Park, Markham, Hazel Crest, Country Club Hills, and Oak Forest.
[edit] Video Tape Scandal
Superintendent of BHSD 228, Dr. Richard Mitchell, was fired in 2006 for inappropriate comments edited into video taped interviews with new teachers.[1] He made up different questions and spliced them into the answers of the interviewees, and also drinks a martini joking about coping with stress.[2] Dr. Mitchell is expected to file a law suit on claims he was discriminated against for being gay.
