D-142 Forest Ridge School Board Member Roxana Agler’s email: “You stuck a rod up my a*s and I took it like a man” –

Midlothian, Illinois (ECWd) –

Roxana Agler (D-142 Forest Ridge Elementary School Board Member) is under fire for not only her bad behavior during board meetings and acts of intimidation she’s accused of making over email, but also for perks she appears to be taking that are not afforded to other parents in the district. Emails produced under the Freedom of Information Act show that Agler has thrown her weight around as a school board member to score special treatment from Superintendent Paul McDermott and D-142 that other parents (who are not board members) do not receive. No elected official should be seen as above the law or deserving of special treatment because that person occupies a seat on a local board. This is not how our government is supposed to work in our state.

Parents of D-142 children have spotted Agler parking her car in no-parking and handicapped zones and now mockingly refer to those no-parking areas as “Special Board Member Parking.” Agler was also caught in emails setting up special pick-up and drop-off times for her kids that are not available to other parents (page 7). Superintendent McDermott signed off on those demands for school board member Roxana Agler, while parents who are not members of the school board must adhere to strict pick-up and drop-off times, without exceptions.

The question is being asked: why should Roxana Agler be given special perks from D-142 just because she is on the board?

If Agler meets any resistance to her demands, she appears to have a track record of using her children as an ace that she theatrically plays to get her way. At the end of numerous emails, Agler tosses out the non-sequitur that she has one daughter with autism and another with epilepsy…which is hammered home as the ultimate trump (and as a kind of dare, as in…”Will you still say no to me after I have invoked Autism and Epilepsy as my ace in the hole?”) (page 25 is a good example of this).

Other strange demands and declarations that Agler has made over the last year that turned up in various emails include:

1. asking for police escorts (but providing no evidence that she is in need of any…just stating that she wants them, as a board member) (page 6)
2. demanding that Superintendent McDermott keep certain enemies away from her kids (including someone named Carol, whom Agler seems to have a grudge against) (page 19)
3. asking the Superintendent to spy on PTA President Melissa Crim’s children and any of the PTA parents children who don’t like Agler (page 39 – 43)
4. accusing PTA members of using drugs (including cocaine!) (click here to read the email) while admitting to prescription drug use of her own, including stating that she would be taking Xanax before board meetings (Xanax email here)
5. using foul and vulgar language like “You stuck a rod up my a-s and I took it like a man” (email here) and “circle jerks” in official board correspondence 
6. threatening fights and then showing up in Everest boxing gloves as a show of intimidation
7. calling board members stupid and questioning their IQs
8. harassing board members and staff with a constant stream of crazed emails that are not about school business
9. engaging in conspiratorial fantasies about “catfishing” and/or being “catfished”
10. contacting police, the IASB (Illinois Association of School Boards), the Village of Oak Forest, and the Attorney General…trying to lash out at her enemies
11. harassing the board attorney to sue her enemies and then threatening D-142 officials when the attorney would not file a SLAPP for her (pages 11-13 and 26-37)

Roxana Agler is easily the most crass and disturbing elected board member that we have encountered since observing Diane Jennings on the Orland Park Public Library Board through the years. Like Jennings, Agler chooses to use vulgar, toilet language when expressing herself, despite holding a public office. This is particularly shocking considering that Agler sits on a school board, whose members make an ethics pledge to abide by a code of conduct and decorum while on the board. Observers feel that since Agler’s actions clearly violate that code of conduct that she should be forcibly removed from her board seat, as she has thus far refused to resign of her own volition.
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