Tonight was a special meeting for the McHenry District 156 Board to address some issues with the public. I do not think they were expecting the turn out that attended. Of course this is a HUGE controversy and will continue to be until this problem at hand is resolved. I will say for myself, the Board did not have much input at all tonight, I don't know if they were caught off guard with the amount of community members or if they just didn't have the answers.
It was a very knowledgeable and interesting night to say the least. 3 hours in the West Campus Auditorium. For the most part, no tempers were ignited and all was fairly calm. The bottom line was pretty much the same across the board of ... we have to find resolution. We need to do this without hurting the children. So many good points were made and so many offers were made from the community. Some of the top local, successful business men and women were there, some spoke, some kept silent. But, I will have to say....it was inspirational to see all come together. I will have to admit that it’s sad that it takes something like this to bring a community together to conquer such a feat. Obviously, we are all concerned and it is more of a problem than just our children being effected.....I just have to stop in the middle of this....if you know me well, and reading these, you will learn to know my craziness and random acts...but what is up with the CIA commercials on at night all of a sudden??? I don't know whether to be scared or what? The whole job market in our country is at an all-time low and the CIA is advertising working for them on TV??? Goofy, I tell ya...GOOFY! Ok, back to the subject. The entire community is going to be effected by this and in my opinion, we are putting so much energy into finding out why we are where we are and how we got here. Does that matter right now really? What we need to focus on is...how we fix it. We need to stop, focus and move forward with a plan that will work. We all know that there is no plan of attack that is going to benefit any side one way or another, but nonetheless the issue at hand needs to be contained. We need to ALL work as a community on all ends and make this happen. It is going to be hard and challenging, but we have no choice but to be involved and make a change. Please educate yourselves, be involved in this, for it is the future of your children, grandchildren, friends, and family. We can work together to make sure that we don't get into this position again. We have enough successful community members that stepped up and are offering the support of bringing new suggestions, knowledge and information to McHenry District 156. We need to use these much appreciated resources immediately and battle this with full force. The position that we are all in, is by far, a very sad place to be, but is not the end of the world. We will pull together and gain forces to maintain the community that so many of us have been raised in and are raising our families in and to bring the attraction to outsiders to join our community of McHenry. We can do this, so let’s put our mind, hearts and souls on the line for the amazing children of McHenry and give them all the opportunities that we all had to prosper in life and for the future of the City of McHenry. Again, please visit the links and gain as much of the information that you can so you can be fully educated on all sides.
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