Fralick Firing On Agenda For D-155 Meeting Thursday

CRYSTAL LAKE, IL -- The District 155 school board will meet in closed session Thursday to discuss firing Matthew Fralick, the Crystal Lake Central High School teacher charged with grooming a teen girl online. In a letter sent to Crystal Lake Central parents, school officials said they’d completed an internal investigation into Fralick, who is currently on paid administrative leave, according to the Northwest Herald. School officials will recommend suspending Fralick without pay until a formal dismissal hearing can be scheduled, according to the newspaper.

“Our administration has followed due process, worked in conjunction with the McHenry Police Department based on the guidance of our attorneys, and made decisions grounded in facts and legally sound action. D-155 continues to cooperate with the McHenry Police Department,” the letter stated. “As we have said previously, the district has no information indicating misconduct by Fralick involving any D-155 students or staff members. Our first priority is always to ensure our students are safe.”

Fralick, of the 1300 block of Cunat Court, Apt. 1C, in Lake in the Hills, was arrested on Feb. 1 on the felony grooming charge. He is accused of talking inappropriately to a teenage girl in an online chat room and trying to get the girl, who lived out of state, to come to Illinois to perform a sex act, according to court documents obtained by the Northwest Herald.

The special District 155 meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the district’s center for education, 1 South Virginia Road in Crystal Lake.

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