Wow..It's hard to think of a comment for all of this. These are the people charged with running a multi-million dollar school budget? We would be better off having the kids of District 122 run the show. At least you could understand the bickering and sniveling then.

This board is so screwed up. I would personally vote for Phil Adair. He is a fair-minded person who would not get caught up in this mess at the school board He has the children in mind, not this mess we have.

The only problem with Phil Adair is he is insane...then again, he might fit right in.

This truly is way out of hand.

Wow, what a bunch of childish and vengeful brats. Do they not realize how badly this is making them all look, not to mention it is embarrassing for New Lenox. What a great example they are setting for the children of 122. Disgusting.

This is madness. We are dealing, yet again, with threats of lawsuit against a board member. The last paragraph of this article says a lot.

The staff and board members from District 122 should be ashamed of themselves. Is this really all in the best interest of the Children?

For the last 5 - 8 years the professionalism of D122 board has been going down. We need to get a fresh board with level headed board members. Do not vote for the incumbents!!

WOW, I'm almost at a loss for words. I'm irritated that any Board member would pull such a stunt that has now cost the taxpayers of New Lenox over $9,000. First we have a Board member involved in stalking, but at least she resigned before embarrassing the District further. Now this, when is it going to end? My opinion is Kathy Miller has every right to go after Broderick/Smith/Sanders for their little stunt, which has backfired in their faces. What other recourse does Miller have? This started with Broderick and it needs to finish with Broderick. I will never vote for anyone who has cost me more money, and has an obvious agenda that has nothing to do with the interest of our children. Greg Loock will be on the ballot, and he will get my vote. Just because you hold a seat on a School Board doesn't mean you can get away with acting like a child.

Sounds like blackmail to me. Childish and sad!!
It may be interesting to find out which would prevail in court; a notary error or blackmail...

I think I misunderstood the headline. Either way, people move here for this school district. I can only hope you all can come up with a resolution and quit acting like bullies.

Kathy Miller is a very nice woman and I don't blame her one bit for fighting to clear her name and to put things back right again. Everything in life costs money and there are funds set up in the school budget for this type of an expense. It does not take money away from the children because how a school budget is set up, every dollar must be ear tagged for a specific purpose and that money can not be moved from category to category. If a parent sues the school, the money for the defense does not come out of textbook supply line or transportation budget line - it comes out of the legal expense line item. Also, realize that these are all people, regular humans and it is our nature to fight back when we have been attacked. People tend to forget that these are regular people who VOLUNTEER their time for this. It is amazing that so many people can criticize but not ONE will step up to help or run for the board. If you are not willing to step up and help (run for the board), then you have no place to complain about anything that is going on.

Really? Is this a joke or what? Kathy and Maureen have you little cat fight out the intrest of our schools and our tax dollars. Both of them need to go. Really??

Let me see if I have this:

Broderick tried to get Miller off the ballot over rule violation.
Miller stayed on ballot.
Miller wants Broderick gone because a rule states Broderick wasn't supposed to file complaint AND rule on same complaint.

I'm very thankful I don't have to live with either of these two women. God help their husbands.

Out with the old and in with the new! None of these board members deserve to be re-elected. They should be ashamed of their behavior!

Why is a board president the go between for Kathy and Maureen? Shouldn't Kathy's attorney have been the one to have said resign or we'll sue? I don't see where it's the board president's job to get involved in a civil case. Kathy could have avoided this whole mess had she actually done her paperwork correctly! I don't personally know Maureen, but it seems like she is the one who is constantly slandered. Why does Miller think she doesn't have to follow the election laws regarding her petition? Why do they want Maureen gone? Is it because she doesn't go along with every little thing they want to do? Is it because she likes to shine a little sunlight on things like violations of the open meetings act and dividing a former asst. superintendent's salary amongst themselves? Is it because she didn't vote for the dumb math program? Really, all of us who pay the bills would like to know. We would also like all of our employees and board we elected to represent us to act in the best interest of the children and taxpayers. We don't want them acting like animals fighting over the last piece of food. I won't say they are acting like children because even children behave better than this.

Just curious, what is the definition of duress?

As for the board, some people say they would not vote for anyone who would cost them more money, yet whoever sits on the board will make decisions that will cost the taxpayer’s money.

Others question how this effects the children, but it is parents who complain to their children like a 7 years old is their best friend about what is going on that will create the effect.

Still others say the money doesn't come from fund that are used for education, but the simple fact is that most of the money that comes from the state can be allocated anyway the board and Dr. Sass sees fit. If they need a shortage in the operations and maintenance account they just need to allocate less to the fund. Or if they want to give nice raises they just allocate more to the fund that houses teachers’ salaries.

I think that you need people who are not only ex educators and nurses on the board, but who are accountants and financial planners. But good luck with that because no one would want to deal with the political partisanship or the "it’s all about the kids" crew.

Sass is in charge as his boy is at the Helm Wake up people .

Now I understand why Sass doesn't even live in New Lenox!!!

Thia is one of the many reasons why I send my children to St Jude.

These people are in charge of our schools? This is all petty. The board needs to grow up. They should ALL resign including Sass. Start fresh. I'm not voting for any of you idiots,and that's putting it politely!!

This is what happens when you get a bunch of women together and ask them to work together. I see this all too often when women are given any type of power or authority, they can't help but cat fight amongst each other....

@ Nlmom they want Broderick and Millwr gone because they are the only ones who realize that Sass needs to GO !!!!

Let me see if I understand this correctly. I was at the hearing. A New Lenox resident filed a challenge claiming Miller did not file her petitions correctly. Miller admitted that this was true. She's angry that the board voted against her because she did not follow the rules? Miller clearly knew the rules as she is a current board member. So why is she crying foul? Every other candidate has to follow the rules. She does not? If the rules are bent or changed for her, as they were by the appeals judge, then why do we have rules at all? Millers problems appear to be of her own making. She cost the taxpayers money by fighting it when she knew she was not in compliance. She could have withdrawn and saved the money. She didn't. She's clearly blaming other people and not taking responsibility for her own mistakes. No one has pointed to anything that other board members have done wrong, but are still blaming them? Follow the rules and you will have no problems. Either no exceptions, or no rules at all.