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-The timeline matters according to the content in this article about 24/7 armed security detail. Yet we aren't allowed to talk about guns in local schools those comments get censored.

You posted youtube letters from mid 2020 in this article as a reason for his security. Those videos are from AltX a private business which offered consultation sessions during the school year every Saturday - if he needed security due to those letters would he be profitting off them in a side businesses? His security was june 2021-july 2022 according to e.n. nearly a year and a half later - that is why I am saying its misleading the video to link it to security.

The police reports you mention are from nov 2021 - 6 months after security started, so its also misleading for you to say they must be what he is referring too. They are all separate incidents literally unrelated to his security that he states on video in this article only began due to a threatening parent with gun at his house ( which there appears to be zero proof of.)

Horton also claims in the video that the media covered this gun threat parent incident up (insinuating that he went to the media for them to cover it and they refused ). which is another big claim (and lie?). This coming from someone who said parents that want school to be open are KKK members

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2021/01/20/district-65-superintendent-devon-horton-says-sentence-in-roundtable-article-mischaracterized-email-exchange-with-parents/

In yet another separate incident foiagras was notified that the district lawyer claimed to another lawyer that a parent showed up at his house in Oct 2022, however then the district lawyer (and evanstons victim advocate) stopped showing up to court in nov 22 (perhaps because they knew that claim was a lie?), and this was well after the security detail ended in july 2022. How many times have the board and superintndent screamed about the kkk and break-ins and threats etc, and what the most that happened so far is something wicked is coming for you and calling someone a pile of trash after 256 consecutive school days remote

I understand it was a challenging time as he/they like to say and use it as an excuse but truth and transparency matters which is why the timeline is important

As a pure hunch this is why was trying to suggest maybe foia his business partners addresses for police pure reports from the no bid article bc wonder if there’s a police report with a gun from something unrelated to education that he then used the school money to get his own security detail for. (again this is just a hunch).

Remember that parental involvement policy 8:110 requires a superintendent to engage in two way communication with parents as one of many duties, when he said the stuff that he did and made the decisions that he did like keeping schools closed for long in the name of racism instead of running and hiding behind a security he could have been had as many town meetings as they did for the 5th ward school, even if on zoom.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

So you are saying that the private security is in response to *your* threatening emails instead of the random ones from 2020?

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Anonymous's avatar

Last one but explain to me that with all the police reports that they file like above. ( I wonder why there wasn’t one and nothing happened when they accused in October 2022 of someone showing up at their house. just trying to help you out pointing out wrongs because was raised to do what’s right. Always. Because you were also sent court documents from the district lawyer who wanted that parent arrested for bringing up Cinderella and Christopher Columbus and children changing sexes. So I’m sure if someone showed up at their house they would do something about that since Cinderella so important. But these topics seem to be too sensitive to bring up here concerns about children. signing off.

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