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Residents urge respect for staff and raise transparency, committee-selection and class-size concerns

Mokena School District 159 Board of Education · April 15, 2026
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Summary

Several community members addressed the board April 15, 2026, urging respectful treatment of staff and questioning transparency and the process for selecting finance committee members; concerns about class sizes and National Junior Honor Society also were raised.

During the public-comment portion of the April 15 meeting, four speakers addressed the board on several topics. Natalie Thompson spoke regarding respect toward staff; Erin Minh raised concerns about the finance committee selection; John Jones spoke about the National Junior Honor Society; and Amanda Montgomery urged greater transparency, criticized the finance committee selection process, and expressed concerns about class sizes.

Board members received the comments during the public-communication portion of the agenda; no formal board action on the public comments was recorded that evening. The finance committee’s new community members were later identified during committee reports as Debi Blank and Adam Thorns.