| ANSWERING THE ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN A SECOND REQUEST FOR REVIEW WILL BE OUR EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION IN DISTRICT 227 Dear District 227 Community: AGAIN, WE NEED YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT NOW! The Illinois Attorney General's Office has requested a SECOND REVIEW FOR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN ADDRESSING VIOLATIONS OF THE ILLINOIS OPEN MEETINGSACT, etc. and in our distress call efforts to bring clarity and unity to the school board 227's smoke and mirrors tactics that we have known for two decades in district 227. The Illinois Attorney General's call for our participation in this second effort is a wake up call for every tax paying citizen in our district 227 community. THIS MAY BE OUR LAST CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: Corrected Email Address is: sgallagher@atg.state.il.us. Or the correct mailing address for sending correspondence through the U.S. Mail is: Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General Attn: Sarah Gadola Gallagher Public Access Bureau 500 S. Second Street Springfield, Illinois 62706 We may never have this window of opportunity again. Those who can make a difference now, before April 9, 2013, and free our schools and community from the stagnation of voter and speech suppression to make progress now, need to be aware of how school board 227's corrupt practices have negatively affected our schools, our community lives, our tax increases, the values of our homes, and the future of our schools and community. School board 227 practices are unjust and illegal. It prevents us from being an involved, informed, engaged, innovative and successful school district community. ALL WHO RESPONDED TO THE ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CALL FOR THE FIRST COMPLETED REVIEW CAN ALSO RESPOND TO THE SECOND REQUEST FOR REVIEW AS WELL AS EVERY CITIZEN IN OUR DISTRICT 227 COMMUNITY. Without your support, this wake up call is only the calm before the storm. The blunder of closing down our community and targeted board members and failing our children was signed and sealed over ten years ago, but today, we are being delivered. Please help us help you, our children, and the future of our community by briefly writing a short note or letter to the Illinois Attorney General's Office describing your and your children's experiences or observations within district 227 and with the school board. Any employee in the district who wish to remain anonymous, can still write to express their concerns and experiences as well. Any former employees can also write in to detail their experiences in school district 227. Without full collaboration, community engagement, and participation, there can be no real school success. With less than three out of every ten of our high school students at grade level by the 2010-2011 school year, this is your turn to make a positive difference in our democracy, our schools, our children's future, our ethics overhaul, the ability to solve our problems through free speech and collaboration, and the district 227 community's distress call. Write or email and state your case in writing addressing your experiences and observation at board meetings and elsewhere with the board or in school district 227 and direct it to SARAH GADOLA GALLAGHER, Assistant Illinois Attorney General, at the Illinois Attorney General's Office. It is always great to have correspondence in writing. We would like to see community participants make sure that we as involved individuals speak to the Illinois Attorney General's Office in writing and to inform them that you are residents and citizens of RICH TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 227 who are concerned about the future of our children and community and wish to end our long night of suppression, darkness, and captivity where the rights of our school community and targeted citizens are unprotected. As we get pummeled at open board meetings without our rights or ability to respond or due process for demanding truth, transparency and fairness in solving our district's challenges, we are told that we cannot refute the lies that are told on us. In an era of state wide bans on children bullying other children, in district 227 we still have board members, and their surrogates, bullying and threatening other board members and our citizens at open board meetings whose views are different from a failed status quo. To turn our school district around from failure to success will not be a cakewalk, but it will begin with fairness, respect for others rights, equality, diversity of views, due process, equal rights, freedom to express in solving our problems, and responsibilities, which will bring unity. The most effective way to solve complex challenges is to bring multiple perspectives and experiences to bear through collaboration. Collaboration engenders ownership of the problem as well as the solution. Moreover, it brings richer resources and perspectives to the task. School board 227 leadership still needs full board and public input, which it has been muted and rejected. School board 227 should not expect to create and sustain high student performance without full board and community participation input or by ignoring and not addressing the problem. But the real tragedy is that they don't care about that, but should. Rather, school board 227 must build networks of full board and community collaborative relationships that bring key stakeholders into the process of solving the challenges facing our public schools. Building collaborative relationships, like every other challenging task, is easier to talk about than it is to bring about or accomplish. The purpose of collaboration is to be free to create a shared vision and joint strategy to solve problems and address concerns that go far beyond the purview of any particular party. Kindest regards, Dr. David E. Morgan Board Member Rich Township High School District 227 Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 |
