Parent alleges student was searched without nurse or parental notice; urges Huntley 158 to revise protocol

Mary Holcroft, a parent, told the Huntley Community School District 158 Board of Education during the meeting’s public comment period that school staff searched her daughter’s body and locker without a nurse present and without calling her first.

Holcroft said her daughter initially reported sexualized comments from another student and that, weeks later, school staff told Holcroft her daughter had been seen “slicing herself in class” and had razor blades. Holcroft said the later claim was false. “It was a fabricated…false claim,” she said. “They searched her — all of her bathing, her body included, and her…