Today, Dr. Burkey posted a letter to parents on the District 158 web site. Bongo assumes he must have been getting a lot of phone calls from concerned parents.
Here is a link to the letter.
At the end of the letter, Dr. Burkey explains that the District asked the HEA to give 48 hours notice of a strike to allow for adequate time for families to be contacted. Seems like a reasonable request since many families would need to arrange for daycare for their kids. According to Dr. Burkey, the HEA declined to agree to the request. What that means is that the HEA could pull the trigger on the strike with little or no time for families to make contingency plans. Nice.
The HEA leadership just keeps making it harder and harder to believe that they care about anyone but themselves.
And how about those picketers at the Square Barn Road campus on Thursday? Check out the image above. See how they're all hiding their faces? If I were them I'd hide my face too.
Bongo has heard from several fuming parents who thought it was very distasteful for picketers to strategically position themselves so that hundreds of cars with kids in them had to drive past them. The claim that the picketers were aiming their message at the school board members holds very little weight with Bongo. They KNEW kids and parents would be on those roads, yet rather than stage their demonstration for outside of the administration building, they placed themselves right in the path of kids. Nice.
Bongo thinks the HEA needs a new strategist, because every time they stage an event meant to garner more support for their stance, they alienate more parents.
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