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JANUARY 30, 2014
Vol. 7 No. 29
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VallEy VIEW school DIsTRIcT
Superintendent responds to BHS principal outcry Mitchem said White submitted his resignation, indicated that under no circumstances he was going to change his mind
BY STEWART WARREN for THe BUgLe
By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter
At Bolingbrook High School, they call her the spirit-wear lady. Kelly Banks, a stay-at-home mom of two from Bolingbrook, volunteers there every Friday, stationed at a post outside the cafeteria. As a member of the school’s athletic booster club, she sells Bolingbrook Raiders t-shirts and sweatshirts to the kids as they wander in and out of the lunch room. That’s the bubbly blonde’s official job. Unofficially, she is a fly on the wall, observing everybody and everything, a person with a unique perspective on life at the high school.
The grass-roots movement to convince Valley View School District administration to deny the resignation of Bolingbrook High School Principal Michael White is escalating with a fever pitch, while also attacking S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Superintendent James Mitchem James Mitchem. White submitted his resignation, effective at the end of the current school year, late last week. In a statement issued Friday,White said
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(prIncIpal mIchael whIte) was never asKed to step down. I have talKed to hIm multIple tImes. he has never been asKed to rescInd hIs resIgnatIon.”
- SteVe Quigley, preSident of the School Board
Bolingbrook High School Principal Michael White
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