Board embarrasses School District 158

"All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" is a book about which we have all heard. It seems to me that the members of the District 158 school board may have forgotten a few of the life lessons they were taught in kindergarten.

I don't care who is wrong and who is right. I don't care who said what to whom. I don't care what your personal feelings for each other are. What I do care about is the commitment each of you made to my child!

When I read in the paper and heard on the radio the allegations and accusations about and toward each other, I was appalled and embarrassed. This "he said/she said" nonsense sounds like a bunch of children on a playground, not a group of well-educated adults at a board meeting.

Not only did the board embarrass itself, it made a mockery of our district. Each and every member on the board should know better than to retaliate against someone else's "below the belt" antics.

In closing I'd like to quote the last line in the aforementioned book by Robert Fulghum. "And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."

Kari Arndt

Lake in the Hills