LA GRANGE, IL — A Lyons Township High School teacher angrily confronted another teacher and shouted obscenities at him in the presence of students in December, according to a memo released Wednesday. The administration said the situation required the intervention of two other staff members.
The school had previously declined to divulge the memo about applied technology teacher Greg Elwood. But a month after Patch filed a complaint with the attorney general, the school released it. Elwood was publicly reprimanded for his behavior at a January school board meeting.
On the afternoon of Dec. 12, Elwood became frustrated with another teacher in the applied technology department and yelled at him while classes were in session, according to the Jan. 13 memo written by Superintendent Timothy Kilrea. It began when the other teacher entered Elwood's classroom to ask about borrowing materials for a student in his class, Kilrea said.
Elwood became upset and raised his voice to state that the other teacher needed to order his supplies and take better care of the tools that he had borrowed before, according to the memo. When the other teacher left Elwood's classroom and returned to his, Elwood followed him and confronted him in the hallway, the document said.
In the presence of students, the memo said, Elwood yelled at the teacher in "an aggressive manner" and repeatedly used profanity, including the f-word. At that point, two other staff members in the applied technology department left their classrooms to intervene and stop the argument, the memo said.
The incident, the memo said, demonstrated "conduct that is unprofessional and threatens your ability to be an effective staff member." Such behavior also jeopardizes Elwood's continued employment at the school, the document said.
If such an incident happens again, more disciplinary action will be taken, including Elwood's suspension without pay and his dismissal as a tenured teacher, according to the memo.
"You may not use unprofessional, inappropriate, profane, vulgar, threatening or offensive language while performing work for the district," Kilrea said in the memo.
In at late January board meeting, the school board voted to reprimand Elwood, issuing what the school district calls a "notice to remedy." This is a rare action, the last two instances being in 2015 and 2019. That's out of a 250-member faculty at the school's campuses in La Grange and Western Springs.
After the school board's vote, Patch filed a request for public records in the case. The district released a chain of emails between Elwood and the human resources director indicating the school took issue with "an interaction" that Elwood had with another member of the applied technology department.
The school board's notice to Elwood referred to a memo by the superintendent that described the teacher's conduct. The school declined to release it, saying it was exempt as a "preliminary draft" under the state's Freedom of Information Act.
"The record is a memorandum with the recommendations of action for the Board of Education. Any factual data within the document is inextricably intertwined with the recommendations and opinions of the administrator," the school said in an email to Patch.
This denial prompted Patch to file a complaint with the attorney general's office, which handles appeals involving public records requests. The district released the document before the attorney general addressed the complaint.
Elwood teaches furniture and cabinet making and home maintenance and repair. He made $134,000 in 2018, according to OpenTheBooks.com.
He has not returned emailed messages for comment.
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