Question: Why has the district chosen at nearly every turn to defy the AG and the law to keep making the costs go higher? Why did Superintendent Correll tell Ed Towle last year to lie (reported by the Daily Herald) so that this year he is suing the district as well? This district continues to make very costly decisions that take money away from the children.

It's very convenient that there was no discussion on the D30 emails last night. When was it discussed? Was it a unilateral decision by Ray Millington? or Correll? or in closed session or email violating the Open Meetings Act?

BTW, like stated yesterday, the injunction is because of D46 not turning over emails, not the emails from D46 so the litigation excuse is just that, an excuse.

More info: http://lakecountyteaparty.com/2011/09/10/d46-faq/

Lennie,
Maybe if there was not new pending litigation against D46 they would have discussed and moved forward with the e-mails. But now it has to move to closed session to be discussed. Here is what the agenda clearly states:
To consider information
regarding appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or
dismissal of specific employees of the district… and 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11) when an
action against, affecting, or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending in a court or tribunal, or when the public body finds that such an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered in the minutes of the closed meeting.
I was not able to attend the meeting, but I did watch it online as wit was going on. I can honestly say I am disgusted by the childish actions of Mike and Shannon. It is an embarrasment. Sorry Lennie, do you honestly think an additional 50K in legal fees are doing the "Children" any justice?

Still waiting to see you at a board meeting to stop the cover up.

Still waiting for you to provide your FIEN.

You two need to calm down just a bit. This is a nothing story, on a nothing website, with nobody watching or even caring. National news? Hardly. There are far too many other school districts who have FAR greater problems that you will ever know. Just because you got cheesed off a few years ago doesn't give you the right to bully and retaliate.

Please - enough is enough.

Who's Karen?

Uhh, no.

I'm Karen. Who are you?

District46, What actions are you talking about? The censure or something different? Just asking, incase I missed something from along time ago. Thanks

Uhhh, no.

Eric67 I use my real name clearly, you don't. I boil f*ing chickens (in case you haven't heard) & I am totally and completely nutz (according to many), am a super duper geeky computer nerd, have 3 kids in D46 and have been living in GL for over 15yrs. I love to pay the right amount of property tax (not enough right now) and wholly believe that the leaders at D46 (with the exception of a very small few) are awesome.

I want to take long walks on the beach holding hands with Sully and 3rd person Homer (no - not in the homosexual way, in the guy-guy way.). My school teacher idol is Sue Sylvester and I would best describe myself as one who is very sarcastic, witty, charming and smells real nice. I love quoting movies from the 80s - so, looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Brad is crackin' me up!

Charter schools are a total waste of $.

http://illinoispolicy.org/news/article.asp?ArticleSource=4436&utm_source=Illinois+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=83f5df829d-Oct+6%2C+2011+E-letter&utm_medium=email#.To3bPwyKEhc.facebook

Lisa, Just read the link to Illionis Policy Institute. Interesting to say the least. However, there is something that just does not sit right with me. The links clearly states that CPS must accept and attempt to educate anyone who shows up at the door. The Charter schools get to choose who they accept into thier class rooms. So do you think they are going to choose the best and brightest? and please don't assume I mean income, as we all know, being rich does not make you smart ! What is the average class room size in CPS and thier Charter schools. I know Prairie Crossing does not have 25-30 in a class room, like D46 does. More one on one time for the students makes better students. I believe, Charter schools breed in-equality in education. Those students who are deemed to be brighter get accepted into smaller classrooms, and that translates into more student/teacher time. Then because the money is diverted from public schools, there is not enough money to properly staff, and educate the "not as bright" students, and class rooms size increases, thus the student/teacher time goes down ! Seems unfair to me.

You want to talk about charter schools, how about school choice? Fine. Lennie is available at most school board meetings. Or you can email him.

Let's get back on topic.

Why is D46, at the least, not releasing the emails that the district looked at from District 30 and redacted already? Why just the eight? Why are you making excuses for them, Brad? Who are you in the district or who do you know that you can speak for them?

Sorry Lisa, you gave the link, I made a statement. Do you agree or disagree with that statement?
2nd, Maybe, Just Maybe, the reason they are not released is because of PENDING/ONGOING, litigation/investigations. Nobody, in thier right mind would release any information regarding pending litigation, prior to having to go to court or in front of a judge. Nobody ever does.... No matter how much you push they will not release the information until, they determine it is the right time to do so. No lawyer is going to advise thier client to release "evidence" that may incriminate them.

"No lawyer is going to advise thier client to release "evidence" that may incriminate them."

Exactly! Now you have it!

Yes Lisa, I do have it. I have always understood that. What you and Lennie have failed to see, is that the D46 board is following the advise of thier lawyers and only handing over what they need to hand over to the investigator. The investigation should take a priority over, giving you the e-mails. As you believe, that the e-mails hold the key to this whole thing, they should go to the investigator, first and foremost. Not to you, Not to me, Not to anyone until the investigation is over. If you have information that this is not the case I would love to know where your source of information is comming from. This way it gets handled where is should be, not in the court of public opinion. Let the investigation take place, and let the chips fall where they will. If the investigator says " Your an Idiot and have violated the Ethics of D46" then that is what he finds. If, the investigator says "Nope no violation here" will you let it go and leave D46 alone ?

Oh and just to be clear, I was not calling you an Idiot. The quotes were to make it seem as if the investigator was talking to the school board member in question. Not you personally

@Softball Jim, you are either not reading the articles or intentionally misleading in your comment. I'll assume the prior for now.

First, the investigator does not have the emails either. The district has refused to give them to him.

Second the AG told the district to hand over the emails to me. When, they did not, I called the AG, They told me my next course of action was court. I gave the district several more opportunities to turn them over to me or the investigator. They have refused still, thus the lawsuit.

Lastly, I have stated many times for this to be over, there has to be a complete and thorough investigation of ALL the evidence. If wrong doing found (which there has been already), the case is to be given to the SA to determine if there were any criminal violations. I will be done at that point and the SA will determine when it's over. I have stated that many times here and to the board. Yet the district continues to cover something up. Why? How much is the cover-up costing the district?

Lennie, I am not being misleading. My point is that maybe, just maybe they are pealing the A.G. ruling. Maybe they believe they have complied with the ruling. Maybe just Maybe D30 released the emails because the confidentiality of those emails did not apply to D30. However they may apply to D46. Can't that be a possible reason not to release them to you? If D30 has already released 87 pages of email that was requested, shouldn't you have all you need already? If not and you believe there is more from D30 why are you not in court against D30? Let the investigator do his job. If he needs more information, let him seek the information. That is what he is there for. Don't try and influence the investigation, let him do his job. I have a huge problem with you contacting the investigator. It is in his hands, let him do his job.

lol @SJ, the investigator contacted me. It's kind of funny that when I do answer questions and provide info, you guys don't really want the answers. Interesting.

For more info see: http://lakecountyteaparty.com/2011/09/10/d46-faq/.

Tell you what... Mark, why don't you FOIA it and get it to Lennie. He is a little busy on D46 right now. It's nice to see that you are interested in transparency as well. He is at most board meetings and it will be easy for you to get that information for him, as well as talking to him and asking questions.

By the way, Mark, do you know how much money per student is spent on each student in Grayslake?

You didn't really answer the question now, did you Sully? Why is that?

It is very relevant, since we are getting off topic and talking about how much is spent on each student. So tell us, Sully, since you are so intricately intertwined with the district. How much is spent per child in D46?

That's becoming more and more common unfortunately. I would have nothing against charter schools if their costs didn't impact the funding of the public schools.

Hmmm... still not answering, Sully, except to say... there are NO limits. So, the amount per student is irrelevant, because it could a million dollars per student and it would be worth it. Of course you (and Brad) would pay it. Of course you two might be the only ones left in town, but that's all good, right?

Back to the subject of this post...
Here's something else that really didn't ever get mentioned on the Patch or the Herald. Server errors... according to Ellen and... is it Joe? the computer guy from D46, there were server errors during the time of the missing FOIA's. Why hasn't this ever been addressed?

It was told to Judge Tonigan, that the missing emails that he asked for, could not be given to him because there were server errors during that time period. In that meeting, Joe said that they were all there, they just had to be brought up a special way to access them.

I trust that Judge Tonigan's request was not dropped, so I am thinking that the district is doing everything in it's power to get them to him now. Matter of fact, he should have them now, since it has been quite a while since his request. That leads me to wonder why the board would have to vote on, the release of these un-redacted emails to him at all, as stated in the September 22 board meeting that 4 of the board members just couldn't attend, so as not to establish a quorum.

Please, feel free to view this meeting. http://ww2.d46.org/boe/boevideos/boevideo092211-2.asp

Mr. Jarratt. I'm not certain they are ignoring the AG. It appears they are acting on advice of counsel and are still within the law. Someone who really cared would let that run it's course before filing frivolous lawsuits. As for Mr. Towle, it is not at all uncommon to reach severance agreements that require parties to say one thing to get another. It's expeditious. Maybe it's unethical, but the process was designed and mastered by the right.

Could you lay off Lennie's kids? Even if you knew his motivations, there's no call for dragging his kids into it.

Yer right....I was wrong - I profusely apologize. Here is a re-type with edits:

From what I have been able to gleen from his prior rants, he approached D46 and asked them if they would allow teach/read/instruct/lead..... The district said, "no" (paraphrased) and he/she went off on a 5 year revenge bullying tirade.

I'm now off to have KFC for lunch - I'm going to eat just the skin and dunk it in gravy. Just because I can.

Crawler- I didn't mention his kids. I just want to know, from Lennie, why he's been going after the district for as long as he has.

I think if you dig a little bit deeper and go back a little bit farther, you'll find the Jarratt's issues have never been about education; it's always been money. It started with a referendum. I believe they have always home-schooled since they moved here and when they asked to volunteer in the local classrooms, the schools indicated that they weren't interested. Kind of a fox-henhouse thing I guess. If it really were about education, I would think they'd have had some kids in the classrooms in an effort to have some basis for a real opinion. That not being important to them, it really just leaves one thing; money. Of course they can put lipstick on the pig by saying they really care.

Look, here's my point. Lennie's always talking about lies, untruths, mistatements, rumors, etc., often baselessly IMHO. But in this case, he's absolutely right. This is a rumor that, whether it were true or not, is unprovable and irrelevant to the discussion. So why pursue it?

Food is a pinch off topic, but on some random Saturday night, go to KFC and ask them for a bucket of chicken - keep the chicken - give you skin only.....

Oh.....

My.....

F Flinstone? As in Farnsworth Flintstone, of the Alabama Flintstones? And no, this is my name. I have been using it for nearly 47 years.

I'm a kid at heart - I keep things light, up beat and fun. To quote one of the greatest individuals who graced this planet, "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." -Steve Jobs

Good for you Tara, but you may want to re-adjust your numbers. You are not including all the other expences in your 1K a year. Don't forget your electric, gas, phone, mortgage, transportation and taxes in your figure. They are what D46 have to include so unless you compare apples to apples, don't throw around numbers. Also, since your two children get a whole lot of one on one time. Of course I would expect them to test higher. That would be commonsense. I have two children that are testing in the 90th percentile in public school, so does that make your home schooling better?

Tara and Softball Jim thank you providing prime examples of how parents need to be empowered the full freedom to choose how their children are educated. All children should have access to a quality education. Fund the child, not the bureaucracy and empower parents.

Life experiences? Social interaction? Oh, my - did you read my 5 (five) most recent experiences running into a gaggle of home schooling moms at the park? I have never seen such a dysfunctional group of awful kids in my entire life. Not just one parents kids, 10 parents kids on five separate occasions.

Home schooling is a HUGE mistake.

Very typical. You can't (don't want to) stay on subject or debate civilly, so you have to attack personally. Keep it up, because people are becoming immune to these kind of harassing, bullying tactics and are starting to fight back. We have people come up to us a whole lot more lately, telling us to keep it up!