04/16/2026
Please read 💜- written by Tina Huenefeld :
As a deeply concerned member of this community, I have spent time listening and paying close attention to what’s being said about the LGISD Bond proposal. I am a proud La Grange ISD graduate (Class of 1996) as are my husband (Class of 1993) and our two children (Classes 2020 & 2023). This community and our schools are not something abstract to me—they are personal, meaningful, and deeply rooted in my family’s history.
While healthy discussion is important, what I have been seeing in many cases is not thoughtful dialogue—it is misinformation, distortion of facts, and at times, a level of disrespect that does not reflect the values we expect in this community.
Let me be clear: asking questions is responsible!! Seeking understanding is valuable!! But spreading half-truths, twisting information, and tearing down the people who serve our children is something entirely different—and it is not constructive to the future of our school.
La Grange has always stood for something better. We are a community of high standards—not only in academics, but in character. That means we hold ourselves accountable for how we speak, how we engage, and how we treat others, especially when we disagree.
Our educators and school volunteers deserve better than unfounded claims and personal attacks. These are men and women who show up every day for our children, who invest their time, energy, and heart into helping them learn and grow. Dismissing their work through distortion or hostility is not just unfair—it weakens the trust and partnership our school depend on.
Our children deserve better! They deserve a community that believes in them enough to invest in their future—not one that reduces every conversation to dollars and cents while overlooking the long-term impact on opportunity, growth, and success.
It is concerning to me and many others to see voices that appear more focused on protecting personal financial interests than on strengthening the future of our school and our children. We can all be mindful of costs while still recognizing that some investments are necessary, meaningful, and worth making.
I believe we, as a community, can do better than what is being reflected in many of these public posts. When facts are dismissed as fiction without context—or when assumptions replace engagement—it does not move us forward.
This bond was called by a board of elected community members who volunteer countless hours of their time to serve our school. Their responsibility is not taken lightly, and their decisions are made in public, open meetings that are available for anyone in the community to attend.
Those meetings are open to all of us. Yet it is disheartening that many of the strongest claims being made online are coming from individuals who do not attend those meetings or engage in the public process where the facts are presented, discussed, and clarified firsthand.
I challenge all of you to do better over the next 2 1/2 weeks. Choose to be a community member that seeks understanding, shows up to participate, and engages with facts directly rather than through secondhand interpretation or misinformation.
Ask the hard questions without spreading misinformation. Have high expectations without resorting to negativity and personal attacks. And on May 2nd I encourage all registered voters to get out and VOTE.
