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For trans athletes in high schools sports, IHSA says it will follow state law — not Trump executive order

Posted in 220, 300, Barrington Education Association, Chicago Sun*Times, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, School Districts, Springfield, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, WTF on April 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Illinois Republican lawmakers sent a letter* to the Illinois High School Association asking it to explain how for its plan to amend policy to adhere to Trump’s executive order aimed at “keeping men out of women’s sports.” | Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times

By  Violet Miller | Chicago Sun*Times

Trans athletes can continue to participate in high school sports competitions, the Illinois High School Association said this week as it affirmed its current policy in the face of demands to exclude trans athletes by the Trump administration and Illinois Republican lawmakers.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order in February aimed at “keeping men out of women’s sports” and threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that didn’t do as he wanted. His administration this week sued Maine for not complying.

The IHSA’s announcement came in a letter issued to Republican lawmakers. It said that Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the Illinois Department of Human Rights had informed the agency that it was required to maintain a policy in lockstep with state law. It also clarified that its trans athletes policy only applied to the state series competition it sponsors, and that individual schools could determine whether transgender students participated during the regular season.

“Compliance with the Executive Order could place the IHSA out of compliance with the Illinois Human Rights Act and vice versa,” IHSA Board President Dan Tulley and Executive Director Craig Anderson wrote in a statement. “The IHSA simply desires to comply with the law and takes no position on which of the foregoing is correct. Given the conflict described above, however, we are left in an untenable position.”

Illinois law prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, requiring schools to protect transgender students’ right to use facilities and participate in events and programs that match their gender identity.

Read more here.

*The letter Illinois Republican lawmakers sent to the Illinois High School Association can be found here.

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Illinois school district responds to federal probe into allegations of making girls change with transgender

Posted in 220, Barrington Education Association, BOHICA, Commodius Maximus, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Fox News, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, School Districts, Taxes, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, WTF on March 22, 2025| 1 Comment »

Deerfield Public Schools District 109 claims it has followed state law, but is that the right thing to do if true?

By Jackson Thompson | Fox News

Deerfield Public Schools District 109 has responded to a federal Title IX investigation that was launched over allegations of administrators forcing middle school girls to change in the same locker room as a transgender student.

The district provided a statement to Fox News Digital insisting that its actions were rooted in Illinois state law.

“Deerfield Public Schools District 109 complies with state law. The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits all public school districts from discriminating on the basis of sex, including gender identity, and mandates that students must be permitted access to the locker room and bathroom that aligns with their gender identity,” the statement read.

“We are sensitive to the privacy needs of all of our middle school students and ensure that no student is required to change into a gym uniform for physical education class in front of others. When both our middle schools were renovated in 2017, we added five private changing stations within each locker room that are available to all students. All students also have multiple options to change in a private location separate from the locker room if they wish.”

The district also says it will work with local families to determine next steps.

“The District and the Board are united with our leaders and educators on this issue and have a shared commitment to upholding the law,” the statement continued.

“The District and the Board call upon all of those expressing concerns or perspectives on this issue with our staff and educators to do so in a respectful and civil manner. We are glad to work with families to address any individual concerns and determine appropriate next steps to support your child’s well-being and participation.”

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced on Thursday that it is launching an investigation into the Illinois Department of Education, the Chicago Public School District 299 and Deerfield Public Schools District 109 over reported Title IX violations.

Read more here.

Related: “WATCH: Transgender school locker room policy puts Illinois in the national spotlight,” “What Dems Have Done to Deerfield girl—and the rest of Illinois—is Just Plain AWFL,” “Opinion: This Is Criminal, Exploitive Behavior Coming Out of School Dist. 109 Deerfield,” “Deerfield middle school administrators force teen girls to change in front of boy in school locker room”

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What Dems Have Done to Deerfield girl—and the rest of Illinois—is Just Plain AWFL

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, John Kass, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Unions, WTF on March 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | johnkassnews.com

You hear that gruesome story of the 13-year-old middle-school girl from Deerfield confronted by school officials and ordered to disrobe in front of a male classmate?

It sounds too AWFL to be true.

But it happened, according to her mother Nicole Georgas who said Tuesday she was filing a police complaint with the police in Deerfield on top of a complaint she filed with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The mom alone standing up for her daughter’s privacy was repeatedly mocked and insulted by hostile trans activists as she addressed a crowded District 109 School Board meeting.

The story has gone viral world-wide and was broken by the Lake County Gazette and Dan Proft’s radio show “The Morning Answer.”

To understand this bizzarro world, please understand this:

Even though President Donald Trump has signed an executive order protecting girls’ privacy, and has vowed to cut federal education funding to rogue states, the Illinois Democrats are funded by billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker, who is the bankrupt state’s leading activist for transexuals.

And he’s running for president.

Kass’ column continues here.

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Opinion: This Is Criminal, Exploitive Behavior Coming Out of School Dist. 109 Deerfield

Posted in 220, Board of Education, Crime, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, School Districts, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, WTF on March 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Janelle Powell | Illinois Review

Over the past weeks, I have been collaborating closely with Nicole Georgas, the courageous mother who spoke out at the district 109 board meeting in Deerfield through our multiple conversations since the incident inception, and every time I think I’ve seen the worst of it, something even more outrageous happens, which compelled me to write the story detailing her experience. It started with middle school teachers and administrators ignoring the concerns of young girls. Then, it became about these same adults actively forcing young girls into an unsafe situation. And now? Now, it’s blatant lawbreaking with zero consequences.

A Timeline of Betrayal: Why Aren’t These Teachers Being Held Accountable?

Every parent, every educator, and every person who values the safety and dignity of children should be asking the same question right now: Why has no one been charged?

Deerfield Public Schools District 109 knowingly violated the rights of young girls, forcing them into an unsafe and deeply uncomfortable situation. These school officials were repeatedly warned, repeatedly protested, and repeatedly told that their actions were wrong—and yet, they doubled down.

This was not an accident. This was not an oversight. This was a calculated decision to ignore the voices of young girls, dismiss their concerns, and institutionalize the violation of their privacy. And still, despite all of this, not a single teacher or administrator has faced consequences.

How did we get here? Let’s break it down.

Read more here.

Related: “Deerfield middle school administrators force teen girls to change in front of boy in school locker room”

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Deerfield middle school administrators force teen girls to change in front of boy in school locker room

Posted in 220, Board of Education, Commodius Maximus, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Springfield, Topics Of Interest, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, WTF on March 14, 2025| 35 Comments »

By LGIS News Service | Lake County Gazette

Deerfield School District 109 administrators forced teen girls at Shepard Middle School to change in front of a boy in the school locker room.

That’s according to parent testimony heard during public comment Thursday’s District 109 School Board meeting.

After receiving a complaint from girls in early February that a boy was in their locker room while they were changing for gym class, District 109 “Assistant Superintendent for Student Services” Joanna Ford, “Assistant Principal” Cathy Van Treese and “Director for Student Services” Ginger Logemann reprimanded the girls, then escorted them to the locker room and tried to force them to change in front of the boy.

Parent Nicole Georgas, whose daughter refused and ran out of the locker room, described her daughter’s experiences to the school board Thursday.

“The male student was present in the girls locker room,” Georges said. “Feeling violated, the girls made the choice not change into their PE (physical education) clothes with a biological male present.”

The next day, Georgas said, Ford, Van Treese and Logermann tried to bully them into to changing in front of the boy.

“(The administrators) all came into the girls locker room, making them change into uniform. This went on all week,” Georgas said. “My daughter refused to take part in her privacy being violated. How dare they!”

She said Shepard School Principal Rob Wegley told her daughter that any male student can use any girl’s bathroom or locker room at his school so long as they say claim to “identify as female.”

Georgas said Wegley told her this was the school policy as dictated by Ford and “legal counsel.”

Georgas said she has filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of her daughter with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Read more here.

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A sample of trans-genderism taught in Illinois 4th-grade classrooms

Posted in 220, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Countryside Elementary School, District 220 referendum, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, His Master's Voice, League of Women Voters, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Springfield, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints, WTF on March 10, 2025| 2 Comments »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

Take a good look at the book recently read by a teacher to her 4th-grade students at my neighborhood public school in Wilmette. You’ll quickly understand why DEI, and trans-activism in particular, have become so objectionable and divisive, particularly in school settings. And why the backlash at the national level to remove such content from our schools, even among Democrats, has become so powerful.

The book that the Wilmette Central School teacher read out loud is called “It Feels Good to be Yourself.” The teacher begins by describing Ruthie, who at five years old determined that she was a he. Her younger brother was just three-and-a-half years old when he announced he was a he. Both kids inform their parents of the gender decisions they’ve made. The decisions are accepted without question.

The teacher reads on:

“You might feel like a boy. You might feel like a girl. You might feel like both a boy and a girl – or like neither. You might feel like your gender changes from day to day or from year to year. Your feelings about gender are real. Listen to your heart.”

Really? Day to day? To ten-year-olds?

As if that wasn’t enough, the book adds this: Doctors and your parents looked at your “body” and just guessed at your gender when you were born. “Maybe they got it right, maybe they got it wrong.”

It’s hard to reach any conclusion other than this one: This book is being read to 4th-graders only to create gender confusion among impressionable young minds. 

Here is a link to a Youtube reading of the book. I encourage you to stick with the six minutes it takes to get through the video.

By any measure, the book’s views are extreme to an overwhelming share of Americans. Normalizing these ideas to little kids in a public school setting – that gender can change day to day and year to year, and that little kids have self-determination – is an extreme proposition. Such ideas don’t belong in our schools.

Read more here, and please vote wisely on April 1st for District 220 Board of Education.

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So-called voter education group — League of Women Voters — says don’t attend, engage or watch Trump speech to Congress – Wirepoints Quickpoint

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, League of Women Voters, Look For The Union Label, Organizations, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, The Chicago Way, Unions, Wirepoints, WTF on March 5, 2025| 2 Comments »

“Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.” League of Women Voters claims to serve those goals by educating voters.

But when it comes to one of the most important presidential addresses in memory on Tuesday night, just close your eyes and ears. That’s the League’s message, as you  can see in its Facebook post reproduced here. “DO NOT ATTEND, ENGAGE, OR WATCH THE STATE OF THE UNION,” say the champions of voter education.

More here.

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“The Fix” is in?

Posted in Aunt Blabby, Contests, Daily Herald, Deception, Dinky, Ethics, Illinois State Board of Elections, New Normal?, OP/Ed, Politics, Resident Spotlights, Village Board, Village Government, Wikipedia, WTF on February 28, 2025| 1 Comment »

According to Wikipedia, “This page was last edited on 23 February 2025, at 00:16 (UTC).”

A week ago today, the Daily Herald reported, “Darby Hills’ appointment to state Senate on hold as Republicans reopen applications for McConchie’s seat.”

Their report went on to state:

“Any additional applicants will be interviewed privately before a public vote is taken at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 at the Palatine Township Republican Organization headquarters, 765 N. Quentin Road, Palatine.”

Apparently, no one bothered to inform Mrs. Hills, since her Wikipedia page (found here) states she is a, “Member of the Illinois Senate from the 26th district,” and that she “Assumed Office February 15, 2025.”  According Wikipedia, “This page was last edited on 23 February 2025, at 00:16 (UTC).”

A PDF copy of Hills’ page, provided by Wikipedia, can be viewed and downloaded for your convenience here.

So is “The Fix” in? You decide…

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Darby Hills’ appointment to state Senate on hold as Republicans reopen applications for McConchie’s seat

Posted in Appointments, BOHICA, Clown Car, Daily Herald, Deception, Dinky, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, Goat Rodeo, Open Meetings Act, Politics, Resident Spotlights, Springfield, The Chicago Way, WTF on February 21, 2025| 4 Comments »

Darby Hills

By Russell Lissau | Daily Herald

Hoping to resolve an intraparty legal challenge, a group of suburban Republican leaders on Friday announced they are reopening applications for the vacant 26th Senate District seat.

The maneuver halts Barrington Hills Trustee Darby Hills’ appointment to the post, which was held by Republican Dan McConchie until his Feb. 2 resignation.

Hills and the other three original applicants will be considered for the seat and won’t have to reapply, said Lake County Republican Party Chair Keith Brin, who leads the legislative committee overseeing the appointment process. Any additional applicants will be interviewed privately before a public vote is taken at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 at the Palatine Township Republican Organization headquarters, 765 N. Quentin Road, Palatine.

Read more here.

Related: “26th Legislative District Committee meeting cancelled,” “State Senator seat at any price?,” ”26th Legislative District Committee meeting tomorrow,” “Do Over Scheduled for Meeting to Replace State Senator Dan McConchie,” “Restraining order sought to block 26th Senate appointment amid legal fight,” “Lawsuit challenges legality of GOP appointment to 26th State Senate seat,” “McConchie’s would-be successor isn’t a Republican and can’t serve, lawsuit alleges,” “Darby Hills Appointed as New State Senator for Illinois’ 26th Senate District”

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Pritzker’s magic beans: Growing a record-setting $55B Illinois budget

Posted in Clown Car, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, Fat Bastard, Illinois Policy Institute, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, McHenry, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Springfield, Unions, WTF on February 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker invoked a fairy tale about magic beans and a giant during his annual state of the state and budget address. Too bad he forgot to take an ax to the giant, record-setting budget he has grown by $16.7 billion since taking office. | AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File

By Bryce Hill | Illinois Policy Institute

Gov. J.B. Pritzker used his annual State of the State address Feb. 19 to deride those who dare disagree with his policies as “professional bellyachers” pushing “magic bean fixes” to the state’s problems.

Lost on him was the irony that his fiscal year 2026 budget proposal set another spending record at $55.2 billion that depends on its own set of magic beans, as have his past record-setting budgets.

Magic-bean budgeting

The most consequential information presented by Pritzker was within his proposed FY 2026 budget, which did not receive enough attention during his State of the State remarks. Pritzker’s proposed budget increases state spending to an all-time high of $55.2 billion – an increase of $2 billion from last years’ $53.2 billion spending plan.

If enacted, the state’s annual budget will have ballooned by $16.7 billion compared to 2019 levels.

Prior to the address, the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget was projecting a $3 billion budget deficit as recently as last November. These projections estimated upcoming FY 2026 revenues would slightly decrease compared to 2025 levels, as Illinois’ economy was expected to slow compared to recent trends. The most recent Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability – a body of the state legislature that tracks revenues – was also reporting mixed revenue performance that seemed to confirm these projections. As of January, General Funds revenues had come in flat on a year-to-date basis when comparing FY 2024 and FY 2025 total resources.

However, Pritzker’s proposed budget is now relying on upward revisions in expected revenues to fund most of his proposed spending increases. The budget proposal now claims the state is expecting revenues to increase by more than $1.5 billion compared to current year revenues. That’s a large increase compared to the revenue reports from earlier this year and projections the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget made just three months ago. If these revenue projections do not materialize, taxpayers may be on the hook for future tax increases that the governor promised to avoid, cuts to state spending or some combination of the two.

Read more here.

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