Ask questions in Dist. 75

For all Mundelein Elementary District 75 parents, teachers, and community members, please plan on attending a meeting or sending your correspondence to the district on your views of the upcoming changes.

Our children’s educations are all affected. Our property values will all be affected if the community feels are schools are overcrowded and poorly run with constant change. The district has a number of options, but the superintendent has chosen to move the students again. This time the big option is to get rid of Lincoln Elementary School. The superintendent is saying that dollarwise, this would be the cheapest, but she is not saying how this will affect our children, or how much money as tax payers they have spent on improving this building over the last five years (to say nothing of how much they have spent over the last 10 years).

Her presentation for this Monday is on the Web at www.d75.lake.k12.il.us. She did have other options that were totally non-feasible.

Why would Fremont District 79 want to join this district? There would be no benefit for them. Diamond Lake school district has the same issues District 75 has. Oh, what she doesn’t bring up in her presentation is how much she spent on her district office or that her whole staff in the district office got increases last year.

I understand that they were promised, but when teachers are being cut, should others get increases?

She loves to have lots of charts and figures to confuse people. Charts and figures can be manipulated to a certain point of view. If you read her recent comments about how are tax dollars are the same as 2004, what were the class sizes back then? What was the actual number of staff all of these existing schools had?

Ask questions. Don’t let this go, because we are all tired of the back and forth nonsense.

Margaret Warzecha

Mundelein