Natick parents and taxpayers: Parental Rights Natick is committed to demanding transparency from Natick Public Schools. And we need your support to do it!
Over the last nine months, we’ve submitted many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and paid for certain public records to help families understand how Natick Public Schools curriculum is indoctrinating elementary and middle-school children in gender ideology:
We also used public records (such as these emails to NPS administrators in September 2022) to expose the concerns of diverse Natick families about this age-inappropriate and potentially harmful gender curriculum that impacts the health and safety of every student:
This week, Parental Rights Natick had to pay $187 for hundreds of NPS public records (redacted emails) that will better inform parents and taxpayers like you about the concerns diverse Natick families have about the district's biased and age-inappropriate gender curriculum (more to report on this!).
In March, the district charged us $75 to get access to the indoctrinating middle-school gender identity lesson plans and materials that your taxpayer dollars already fund.
Last year, the district put up outrageous costly paywalls (to the tune of $800 to $45,000) for access to other public records about its flag “proclamation” that we couldn’t afford to secure.
Access to public records is critical to help families know what children are learning in school and to hold school districts and elected officials like School Committee members accountable for their policy decisions.
In Newton and Wellesley, Jewish organizations and individuals used FOIA requests to help expose anti-Israel bias in K-12 schools.
In Sharon, FOIA requests revealed lesson plans with fake Spanish being taught in some classrooms in the name of “inclusivity.” As a result, the department head immediately told those teachers to stop using the unauthorized curriculum and to teach only authentic Spanish.
In Georgetown, a citizen used public records to learn that school principals let their principal license lapse and some special education teachers let their special ed licence lapse. In Boston, a similar public records request revealed the superintendent let her license lapse while firing teachers who had let their license lapse during the pandemic.
And the stakes couldn’t be higher, since the Natick School Committee revealed at a joint Select Board meeting with state legislators this past April that it's hoping for FOIA reform at the State level that supposedly “closes a loophole.”
What this "reform" actually does is make it harder for taxpayers, parents like you, and organizations like us to get access to so-called “superfluous” public records that “put pressure on educators.”
As a community we can't allow Natick Public Schools to infringe on freedom of information or to compromise transparency for a “social justice” political agenda that's pursued over the objections of many concerned parents and with no formal opt-out accommodation for parents who want to protect their children from controversial, confusing, and age-inappropriate content.
Please donate to Parental Rights Natick today to help us continue to pay for important FOIA public records and communications like email campaigns and our website! These tools are vital for us to keep taxpayers and parents like you informed and educated on concerning school policies and practices that impact the safety of every student.
Together, we can help restore heathy school policies and unbiased education in Natick Public Schools!
P.S. As a 501(c)(4), Parental Rights Natick doesn’t have to disclose donor names, and we uphold the privacy of those who help support us.
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