Have District 150, Park Board learned their lesson?

Two days after the proposed Glen Oak Park school plan was announced as a done deal, Peoria School District 150 is backtracking.

I believe School Board President Alicia Butler when she says administrators led her to believe the was significant input from the neighborhoods and that there was no opposition.

The article also makes it clear, in my mind at least, that far too much of the planning for this was done behind closed doors.

The Open Meetings Act allows for discussion of land acquisition behind closed doors. But until the moment that the school board and park district decided to go into a partnership, there was no land acquisition to discuss.

This whole project may very well blow up because of the government’s tendency to keep information away from the people being governed.

There’s a lot I don’t like about this plan. But it’s not so outrageously bad an idea that the powers-that-be deserve to be vilified for even considering it.