Superintendent Tammy Prentiss of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 | Hinsdale 86
Superintendent Tammy Prentiss of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 | Hinsdale 86
A petition has been started to remove Superintendent Tammy Prentiss from the leadership of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 for allegedly making misleading statements regarding a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion contractor.
“Tammy Prentiss intentionally misled School District 86 stakeholders, the Board of Education and the media during the January 13, 2022, Board meeting when she read aloud a divisive and defamatory letter purportedly received from Valda Valbrun, an outside Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) consultant who had sent an email the previous day withdrawing her proposal to conduct DE&I training for the District,” the petition reads.
Prentiss allegedly also added language to make Valbrun’s resignation seem worse than it was, critics argue.
“Superintendent Prentiss failed to disclose that she added two highly inflammatory sentences to Valbrun’s original language the day after receipt, which revisions labeled Hinsdale as ‘shameful,’ ‘a dangerous place’ to work and stated that Valbrun feared for her ‘physical’ safety,” the petition reads.
“Superintendent Prentiss’ claim that she merely added the inflammatory language a day later at Valbrun’s request is not credible. Even if this dubious account were true, the Superintendent should have acknowledged her participation in embellishing Valbrun’s email before reading it publicly.”
The creators of the petition accuse Prentiss of falsifying a narrative.
“Superintendent Prentiss acted dishonestly and unethically in deliberately creating the impression that the doctored withdrawal letter had been submitted by Valbrun,” the petition reads.
Prentiss has been superintendent of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 since May 2019, according to LinkedIn.
“Tammy Prentiss can no longer effectively carry out her responsibilities as the Superintendent of District 86. Her divisive conduct, lack of integrity and inability to build consensus have negated her ability to perform her job,” the petition reads.
D86 oversees the education of over 4,000 students in two locations.
Prentiss makes a base salary of $250,000 per year.
By publication time the petition had received 966 signatures out of a goal of 1,000.
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