Administrators at Galesburg Junior Senior High School are planning to hold a community forum at the beginning of next month to address and get some input on how to correct safety and behavioral concerns.
Principal Tom Hawkins told school board members with District 205 that there have been concerns among the staff and plans are being made to hold a school safety town hall from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov 1 at GHS.
Hawkins says a steering committee came together to try and create a plan to get the community involved in creating a safer environment for students.
“So this is something that we are very concerned about, that we are being proactive about, and we look forward to everyone’s participation in it,” Hawkins told the school board on Monday. “We want to make this a community event. Not just an event for high school students, cause we know after talking to other principals, there are some behaviors in their schools that they are quite concerned with as well.”
Several board members spoke in support of addressing these concerns, asking community members to show up to the town hall and give administrators ideas to help combat these issues.