Monday, when a ten-year old student left Huntley School District 158 Chesak Elementary School, he got off the bus, reportedly got mud thrown at him, went home, wrote a suicide note and disappeared.

The whole community started searching near the subdivision north of the grade school.

The police department, the fire department, neighbors and ordinary citizens who had been trained under the Lake in the Hills Community Emergency Response Team program.

The chat room Huntley Neighbors had something about the incident today.

One wrote,

“I just want everyone to remember that our schools have a NO tolerance policy in regards to bullying, racial, or sexual abuse. There are some very big concerns that some of the administration and staff have not been taking these issues as seriously as they need to be.”

Another added the boy

“wrote a note to his parents saying that he was going to drown himself in the lake along side the school and that’s why they were searching it once they found nothing they ended up searching Marlowe ’cause the doors were open, they had some kind of student meeting going on over there, he was found in a hole under his house.”

He wasn’t found in a hole under his house (another commenter pointed out he lives in a town home), but the boy was found close to home.

Quite apart from the tragedy, school board members were not notified of this very serious, school-related incident until Friday.

When I asked Larry Snow if he knew anything about the incident, he told me the administration had not informed him of any police incidents related to any school.

“If bullying led to this, I should have been informed,” Snow told me.

This is in the school district where Superintendent John Burkey wants all school board members to inform on residents or employees contact them.

How about block captains next, in the respected tradition of Red China and the old Soviet Union?

If there’s a hole in this story, it’s similar to the one Alice fell down.
And, if Superintendent Burkey wants information, he should remember, information should flow both ways.