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District parent urges Glenview schools to provide textbooks, higher-grade book-fair selections
6439303 · October 21, 2025
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Summary
A District 34 parent told the board his sixth-grade child lacks textbooks at school and criticized book-fair selections as aimed below grade level, urging clearer syllabi and curated book offerings.
Michael Tarkowski, a District 34 parent with a sixth grader at Springman, told the Glenview CCSD 34 Board of Education during public comment that his child and other students lack requested paper textbooks and that the district's book-fair selections do not match middle-school reading expectations.
"I have a sixth grader who…
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