Its discouraging that this board vastly doesn't represent the community and then misleads the community as to how to best communicate with them.
I agree that board president Sergio has clearly given direction that they will not respond to public comment and then last night board member Donna is asking the public to come to the meetings (t…
Its discouraging that this board vastly doesn't represent the community and then misleads the community as to how to best communicate with them.
I agree that board president Sergio has clearly given direction that they will not respond to public comment and then last night board member Donna is asking the public to come to the meetings (that are hastily put on the agenda) to comment.
I have been told by another superintendent for another school district that there are bylaws about the amount of time that boards of education must respond to requests in writing. There are legal difference between public comments at a meeting and comments in writing. I like Donna, so not trying to throw her under the bus here, but she's uninformed of the bylaws or the law in this regard.
FWIW, you can only provide public comment online in comments sections in a handful of places without coming under attack. The District 65 FB group is ground zero for being attacked. Even the Round Table grossly edits their comments section. The number of thought silos in this town is staggering.
All told, I wish the board & admin had put Foster School on the ballot, even again for the third time I've lived here. I don't care as much about public comment as I care that the board serves as representatives of the will of the community in regards to education. Democracy, right?
I have friends here in Evanston who moved from former USSR. Its fascinating to hear their points of view about the school's debts, mismanagement, and misdeeds and how authoritarianism of power held by the board and backed up by the same thirty people ready to fight on facebook. Just some lunch time thoughts.
Its discouraging that this board vastly doesn't represent the community and then misleads the community as to how to best communicate with them.
I agree that board president Sergio has clearly given direction that they will not respond to public comment and then last night board member Donna is asking the public to come to the meetings (that are hastily put on the agenda) to comment.
I have been told by another superintendent for another school district that there are bylaws about the amount of time that boards of education must respond to requests in writing. There are legal difference between public comments at a meeting and comments in writing. I like Donna, so not trying to throw her under the bus here, but she's uninformed of the bylaws or the law in this regard.
FWIW, you can only provide public comment online in comments sections in a handful of places without coming under attack. The District 65 FB group is ground zero for being attacked. Even the Round Table grossly edits their comments section. The number of thought silos in this town is staggering.
All told, I wish the board & admin had put Foster School on the ballot, even again for the third time I've lived here. I don't care as much about public comment as I care that the board serves as representatives of the will of the community in regards to education. Democracy, right?
I have friends here in Evanston who moved from former USSR. Its fascinating to hear their points of view about the school's debts, mismanagement, and misdeeds and how authoritarianism of power held by the board and backed up by the same thirty people ready to fight on facebook. Just some lunch time thoughts.