Letter: School board should make space for extensive community input

After attending the last two District 65 school board meetings, I find that one thing has become clear: Our primary crisis is not our structural deficit (although that must be addressed). It’s a crisis of confidence that the choices being proposed by the District 65 administration do not represent what we aspire to as a community. In board meetings and communications to District 65 families, the administration has expressed its interest in feedback on the proposed changes. The primary way to share this feedback seems to be through a survey, but how this information will be used remains unclear beyond references to informing modeling for school boundaries. Equally concerning is the survey closing Nov. 6. Is this really adequate time to aggregate what is sure to be extensive community input in time for the board to make decisions at their meeting the following Monday evening? A window of opportunity exists for the administration to shift its focus from defending its approach an