Dawn Johnson for Waukegan School Board #60

06/03/2022

This is a Repost from a community members..

The Superintendent of District 60 was very disrespectful tonight to members of the community. This TRASH thinks it’s a joke. Our district is failing. Our children Reading and Math scores are below average. Ratings of our district is a D.

She doesn’t have her PHD like she put on her application saying she will have it. The Board has reimbursed her for getting her PHD and she doesn’t have it. Tonight our Financial Director Ms Poke church Pastor has been hired by this district to do workshops 🤣🤣

Nepotism at its finest. The lawyer for the district law firm yes the law firm she was working for before becoming the district 60 attorney has been hired to investigate things within the district. Again Nepotism at its finest.

So Rita Mayfield PLEASE EXPLAIN to US the public WHY is this being allowed. As you see this BOARD is not DOING their job. The state took district 187 why isn’t the state looking at district 60. We are over paying this thing to run our district in the dirt.

I’m ANGRY and MAD as hell because y’all meaning the Politicians always talking about Data but we have shown the Data and the public sees it to and still nothing is being done. The Rap Around Center was not this lady idea and it’s been put off to the public as if it is. ..

Where are the community leaders that’s says they care so damn much about our youth. BLM. BAM. Legacy. And all the other entities and so called activists at? Ohhhhhh we only get involved when our pockets are greased.

This is beyond nuts that we are allowing this to happen. To all the politicians that’s on the Ballots, My Stern ADVICE to ALL is to STOP acting like you give a damn about our babies but are sitting by allowing this madness to happen. See y’all live in the morning
Andrew Gadsden Thomas Harvry Cheree Pritchett Katrina Friar Rose Gold Tanesha Reid Dimples Frison William C. King Je'net Coleman

This is not acceptable of the superintendent behavior attack towards the members attending the meeting from the community

04/10/2022

Thank you Shandal Diggs
How many students have this same experience?

Parents you have to be your children VOICE....
A little story at a young age I was diagnosed with dyslexia . Schools wanted to be put in special classes but my mom didn’t let them, I DID NOT let them .....

I remember coming home telling my mom I don’t belong in there with them kids and I’m not slow or have a disability. We had a meeting with the school and they put me in regular classes to try me out and GUESS WHAT?

I passed every damn year and NEVER looked back 💪🏾💪🏾-dyslexia doesn’t mean your slow , you just have to learn different and work two times harder then the average person! Never let anybody put a label on you !

I graduated HS, I graduated cosmetology school and I graduated medical assistant school on the TOP of my class & I was the graduated speaker 🔈. 💯

Lisa Shelton thank you for being my voice I LOVE YOU 😘❤️💕
This story will help somebody 🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️💯

04/07/2022

I know some of you have kept up with our Too Young to Test bill, senate bill 3986

Rita Mayfield
is one of the key legislators we need to vote in favor of the bill. The bill limits testing of children from preschool-2nd grade.

Can you call/text/email Rita Mayfield and ask that she vote for the bill, or possibly cosponsor the bill if she's in favor of it?

Thanks so much

-Samay

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Samay Gheewala
Assistant Director of Organizing and Policy
Illinois Families for Public Schools
(312)380-6324

04/07/2022

Hi - Waukegan Community

Waukegan parents be your child or children advocate! Don't continue to allow anyone to keep shackles on your child or children from moving forward to receive higher education opportunities within public schools here in the Waukegan School District 60.

The time is now for change to stop the bias testings all children do not have to be diagnosed or labeled with a false alarm diagnosis that later place minority African-American black and Hispanics brown Boys in alternative placement (Prison to pipeline systemic placement incarceration) because of lack of services funding, resource and programs towards Higher education opportunity they should be given equal as well as quality education resource and programs to be successful students as well as productive adults.

Let us use our voice to make a difference within our Waukegan community for the Next Generation, now is the right time for us all to work TOGETHER for all students to receive equal as well as quality and empathy curriculum lessons plans academics achievement with resource and programs.

Time for change

1) Smaller classroom
2) curriculum lessons plans to improve academics achievement gap
3) Hire minority African-American staff administrators as well as service team social workers as well as psychiatrists.

Just to name a few

Best Regards

Dawn Johnson

04/07/2022

Words of encouragement the time is now for parents to teach and invest in your children life higher education opportunities to be successful students & work ethics to be productive adults within their future.

04/06/2022

Meet Tyler: “Tyler has autism and has completed the two-year component of the University of Missouri-St. Louis SUCCEED Program, a post-secondary program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. After completing the program, students may earn a Chancellor’s Certificate. Tyler is now a student of SUCCEED Plus, an extension of the program.

‘Before SUCCEED, he was very dependent on us. The independence, the decision-making, the self-awareness was not there,’ his mother, Tonya Haynes, said. ‘I never dreamed of him living away.’

Tyler says: ‘My word is AMAZING. I selected this word, because I go to college. I have so many friends and participate in so many activities. I love to meet new people!’”

04/01/2022

GM
Teach CHILDREN who they can be and teach CHILDREN who they don't have to be
SHOW CHILDREN just be you Believe in
themselves

04/01/2022

Greeting Waukegan Parents

THREE (3) years ago at a local alternative placement outside Menta Alternative treatment School North in Waukegan below you have pictures of The TWO Black Staff's went outside to fight a parent.

The Current Waukegan School Board Members,
Local Officials Leaders from the community
Superintendent Theresa Plascencia and Administrators and Teachers see 🙄👀👀👀👀 nothing wrong with this here children watching two staff fight a parent..

This school occupies students from six (6) years old kindergarten -High School students this is unacceptable students from all over Lake County area attend the school small classrooms only three classroom occupy proximate 80 plus students in this small unaccommodated education placement

Still today THIS is one of many reason alternative placement is a form of imprisonment present direction to prison to pipeline environment

Now it's time for change here in Waukegan - Students aren't allowed academic tools to be successful students or productive adults

*Recent hired two African-American security staffs

1) unsafe toxic environment

2) Students aren't receive Equal,Empathy, Equality Quality curriculum lessons plans academics choices and service recourse and programs within this school environment

3) Students are reading below grade average

4)less than 1% percent within African American Black hired occupy employment within Administrators, Educators as well as teachers and social staff that includes social workers counselors

5) There's NO Cafeteria students eat lunch in the classroom.

03/30/2022

03/28/2022

Hi - Waukegan Community

Let us use our voice to make a difference within our community for the Next Generation, this is the right time for us all to work TOGETHER for all children to receive equal as well as quality empathy with service resource and programs to best service academic higher education for all students

I know some of you have kept up with our Too Young to Test bill, and Rita Mayfield
is one of the key legislators we need to vote in favor of the bill. The bill limits testing of children from preschool-2nd grade.

Can you call/text/email Rita Mayfield and ask that she vote for the bill, or possibly cosponsor the bill if she's in favor of it?

Nelson Mandela quotes about education:

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.”

Thanks so much

-Samay

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Samay Gheewala
Assistant Director of Organizing and Policy
Illinois Families for Public Schools
(312)380-6324

03/16/2022

Dear Parents:

Waukegan Public Schools’ monthly Parent-Teacher Advisory Committee (PTAC) meetings are moving from Google Meets to Zoom for all future sessions. The meetings will continue to occur on the third Wednesday of the month, the only difference will be the change in hosting platforms. The new link can be found below along with the Meeting ID and Passcode.

Join Zoom Meeting link: https://wps60-org.zoom.us/j/88498497172?pwd=a3lsbVgvTERuUWY4T2V5cEFoOWtUZz09

Meeting ID: 884 9849 7172
Passcode: 421251

Our next meeting is tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 16. We will be discussing the proposed changes for the 2022-2023 Parent Student Handbook and the Board Policy on Student Discipline. You may join us at 6 p.m. at the Welcome Center or via the Zoom link above.

Spanish interpretation is available via Zoom’s platform.

Thank you.

Eric Christianson

03/15/2022

At just 14 years old, this child prodigy is striving to learn all he can while preparing for his last few semesters at the HBCU.

03/15/2022

Repost story

“See the thing is; my ROTC teacher told me I was gonna end up dead or in jail. I grew up without a father figure in my life. I wore most of the same clothes from middle till I graduated. We were on food stamps and lived in the hood. Those are circumstances that I did not let dictate my life. I did not become a product of my environment. Some of my friends called me stupid. Now look at me. I became aware that I control my destiny. I became aware that I could be the Man that I was intended to be. I became aware that there was only one branch that could build me into a Man. I became a Marine!”
Credit: Nathaniel Love

03/12/2022

Good morning
Words of encouragement for students to engage in trade opportunity that can be very important within the public schools, especially here within the Waukegan community the time is to Invest funding towards Higher education opportunity.

Ms. Imunique Triplett is the first student from Milwaukee Public Schools to graduate from the M-Cubed College Connections nursing program before finishing high school.
The nursing program allows Milwaukee public school students to enroll in the Milwaukee Area Technical College and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee classes for free, earning credit that will be applied to their high school and college academic careers if they choose the path into nursing, teaching and general education.

03/10/2022

Lake County area community all welcome

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Next Season will be approaching soon! To everyone that has been inquiring on how they can join the CDX family! Here is the SAVE THE DATE for Open Registration starting March 15th! All athletes are welcome no matter skill level, and will make a team!

Athlete tryout dates will take place:
May 23-25th!

03/09/2022

Do you know of a college student that needs scholarship money? See below:

I am proud to partner with the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association to award a $1,000 school scholarship to a Lake County resident, for an institution of higher learning. The scholarship is to be applied to tuition, books and fees only. The student must be enrolled full-time at a certified institution of higher learning within the State of Illinois, full-time online learning is acceptable.

There will be no restriction on any applicant by reason of race, age, creed, color, s*x, s*xual orientation, national origin, or other protected classes. The only limitations are as follows:
• Applicants must be permanent Illinois residents and reside in the county in which they are applying
• Scholarships must be utilized at institutions of higher learning within the State of Illinois
• Students must be enrolled as a full-time student during the 2022-2023 school year (excluding summer session)

Applications are available at the Lake County Sheriff’s Office or can be downloaded at the following link: https://go.usa.gov/xtk6b

Students must complete the application; answer the essay question and return all documentation to the Lake County IL Sheriff's Office or Sheriff's Office in their permanent county of residence by March 15, 2022 (must be postmarked by this date).