Alumni & Family Letters to Leadership

If you are concerned about the recent termination of faculty and the direction of school leadership, we encourage you to respectfully share your perspective directly with the Head of School and Board of Trustees.

To include your letter of concern in this growing collection, please send a PDF to:

ConcernedLCSFaculty@gmail.com

  • Andy Westmass, LCS alumni parent

    4.26.26: “The very fact that so many faculty members and staff are willing to join with their fellow staff members and put their careers on the line should be enough for anyone to see that there is a problem correlating strongly with the new leader.”

  • Braden Vanden Bosch, alumnus

    “The sudden termination of teachers, administrators and staff whom I know many of you have held in high esteem in the past has caused significant harm and confusion. The manner in which these decisions were carried out, without documented performance concerns or clear explanation, appears inconsistent with both wise leadership and the Christian values LCS has long upheld.”

  • RJ Hatt, alumnus & parent

    “We know without a doubt the teachers are what make LCS great. The Board is not why anyone chooses to send their child to a school, but it will almost certainly end up being the reason why my child will not be a Pilgrim.”

  • Andrea Tardino, Former Board Member

“This has been a carefully crafted, patiently executed, agenda driven plan since around 2020 to drastically change the school. This is not Wendy. This is not the teaching staff. This is not the Principals. This is the Board.
During my time on the board, I watched them purposefully infiltrate it with their so-called Parents for Christian Education minions so they could freeze out the Head of School, meddle in the curriculum (which is NOT a Board function nor should it be), find it their duty to tell those who didn’t agree with them that they were not following the word of God, and publicly attack Board members they wanted to remove so viciously that they weren’t re-elected.”

  • Mike VandeHaar (Former board member, parent and spouse of a teacher)

“To an old board member, it seems quite clear that neither the current head of school nor the board leadership has a clear idea of what they are doing. They are destroying the school that we have built. This is not a good witness to the Lansing community. This is not how Christians should be treating each other. I am so sad. I implore you to reconsider what you are doing to LCS. I implore you to walk humbly with your God, and to listen to the teachers, who have invested their lives into our children.”

“The fear mongering and tension at the school are palpable. The school and parents are partners. I'm appalled at how the Board and the Head of School have treated staff who have given their talents and love to the school and the students. We are a nondenominational Christian school. Just as churches of various denominations have various doctrines, so will staff and families.”

“I knew God had marked my life and asked me to go with him on a journey, so I went. From little Lansing Christian, I moved to Thailand at eighteen, then to Cambodia, to South Africa, and later to Uganda. This wouldn’t have been possible without the teachers I listed above. They are the ones that discipled me. I would argue to say, they are the reason the gospel reached the ends of the earth the three years I worked in international missions.”

“Choosing to fire 15% of school staff in one day, during teaching hours, before finishing even one year of leadership is a nuclear strike on the school and community Dr. Zajicek is responsible for. It is my opinion that this stack of clearly unwise decisions has fractured trust beyond repair. If you do not fire Dr. Zajicek, many families will leave. Many families (like mine) will never even consider sending their children to a Lansing Christian School under his leadership.”

  • Rebecca Hull, alumna

    “[The teachers] are its beating heart. They are the truest witness of Christ that I’ve had in my lifetime, and if that’s what you’re ridding the school of, then that speaks volumes. You know what happens to a body when you rip out its heart, and I’m fully convinced that if Jesus was a teacher at Lansing Christian, he would have been chosen as one of the eleven terminated.”

  • Paige Meyer, alumna

  • Marian Allan, alumna

  • Suzanne (Gothro) Bauer, alumna