Quote of the Month
Debbie Wolfmeyer, District 150 School Board Member: “It is not my role as a Board member to meet with individuals or groups.“
This in response to Diane Vespa and other concerned District 150 parents trying to reason with the school board members to reconsider their ignorant vote to shorten the primary school day by 45 minutes and to lay off teachers specializing in art, phys ed, and music.
According to a teacher friend I know before these teachers came aboard, art was a joke, phys ed was nothing more than another free-for-all recess and music class consisted of playing a CD.
For religious reasons, my children attend private school, as did I, but I care deeply about District 150 and its oh so obvious mis-steps because I am a Peorian … Born and raised. The school district and the city work hand in hand in that as the schools go, so does the city, and I don’t want this city to become the failed hub of successful spokes such as Dunlap, East Peoria, and Metamora.
The degradation of our school district and our proud city must stop now, but it won’t stop if elected representatives of our school district refuse to listen to their constituents.