Fortunately, No One is Roaming Around Sanborn Elementary School

News flash: No one is roaming around Sanborn School, thankfully. 4RD15Kids published a post that questioned how a pro referendum group got ahold of pictures that they claimed to be the insides of Sanborn School. During a meeting at Willow Bend Elementary School on Monday, September 28, the District 15 superintendent admitted that he provided pictures of Sanborn Elementary School to members of the pro referendum group. At least we know this now.

What we would like to know is, did the pro referendum group indicate how these photos were to be used when they requested them? If not, why didn't the school district inquire? If so, what was the reasoning for supplying these images? District 15 was told by their attorneys that they are not supposed to take a position on this referendum. There was an article published about it here.

We chose to take down our post about these initial questions, because it contributed to already very upset parents of Sanborn students. The source of the images should have been disclosed along with the publishing of this video, so as not to create a sense of fear for the parents of students at Sanborn. That would have been pertinent information to include. We do not apologize for asking this serious question that relates to safety of children who attend one of our District 15 schools.

We as a group continue to believe that the proposal to close Sanborn is directly related to the possibility that Palatine Park District could purchase the Sanborn property-NOT because it is a dangerous place for our children to be-as the video likely was attempting to communicate. District 15 could then purchase Osage Park for the mega-Community school District 15 is proposing to build on Osage Park [1,200 child elementary school, three floors with an overwhelming majority of low income, minority students and ESL student [60-percent, 71-percent, and 39-percent, respectively-according to District 15]. The facts, and a question....

• It is far more costly to build new classrooms than to update existing ones.
• $7 million cost to update Sanborn is similar to all other D15 schools.
• The school district can't do both: pay $130 million for shiny new classrooms and fix remaining $100 million of safety problems required by law to be completed in five years.
• Our question: Does this mean that the school district prefers shiny new classrooms over safe classrooms?

Vote NO for this referendum, for our community - and 4RD15Kids.