Friday, April 2, 2010

Ill. A.G. looks at D-158 FOIA answer

Be sure to read the current article on FirstElectricNewspaper's (FEN) website about the response from the Illinois Attorney General's office regarding District 158's response to a FOIA request from FEN for Cheryl Kalkirtz's letters (plural) of resignation from Huntley District 158.

McHenry County Blog (www.mchenrycountyblog.com) previously reported, as did the Daily Herald (3/12/10), that Kalkirtz had presented a blistering two-page letter in January, informing the District that she intended to resign at the end of the school year.

It must have been so blistering that it consumed itself in flames and disappeared from District 158's files. Now, how can something like that happen? In a big school district? With an HR Department that knows it had better keep employee correspondence? Did they think that she wouldn't keep a copy of it?

So, when FEN requested the letters (plural) of resignation from District 158 and got only the February 1st letter, it smelled a rat. The current article is on www.firstelectricnewspaper.com (April 2, 2010).

And look at FEN's March 15, 2010, article (you have to scroll down several pages) that compares her signature on the February 1 resignation letter with her signature on the January two-page original resignation letter. When I look at those two signatures, I see a lot of stress in the top one. If that is her signature, she was m-a-d. And, if she didn't write that top signature? Did someone forge her name? The jailers can get ready to dust off a vacant cell at 2200 N. Seminary!

You can easily see both these articles by searching for Kalkirtz in the search window on FEN.

And the original two-page resignation letter of January 11, 2010? I read it on either the Daily Herald of the McHenry County Blog, but I don't find it now. Wish I had printed it then.

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