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Heads up! We have scanned the upcoming agenda for Waukee Comm School District. We found 8 items that need your immediate attention before the vote.
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District Approving ‘Leader in Me’ SEL Program
Under Consent Agenda item III.B.5.7, the district is paying FranklinCovey $16,326.30 for the ‘Leader in Me’ program, a school-wide system rooted in Social Emotional Learning (SEL). This program replaces traditional character education with therapeutic concepts and behavioral conditioning, shifting the school’s focus from academics to social engineering.
Recommended Action Plan
PACK THE ROOM: This is a full-scale SEL implementation. Email the Board (contact info on the district website) and attend the meeting. Demand that ‘Item III.B.5, number 7, Leader in Me’ be pulled from the Consent Agenda for a full discussion and a roll-call vote. Ask the board: ‘Why are we spending over $16,000 on SEL instead of academic recovery?’
💰 Impact: $16,326.30
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| HIGH CONCERN (LEVEL 9) |
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Final Vote on Vague Policies Affecting Parental Rights
The board is holding a final vote on a large batch of policies, including critical rules governing parental access to student records (505.1), curriculum adoption (602.4B), and how library materials are selected (602.8). The actual text of these revised policies was not included in the agenda packet, giving parents no way to see what rights are being changed before the final vote.
Recommended Action Plan
INVESTIGATE: This is the second and final reading. Immediately open the files attached to Item VII.B.1 in the Official Agenda (linked above) to see if they weaken parental review rights or curriculum oversight. Email the board to postpone the vote until parents have had adequate time to review the final language.
💰 Impact: Parental Oversight
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| HIGH CONCERN (LEVEL 9) |
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District May Be Buying Student ‘Climate Survey’ Software for $50k
Buried in the Accounts Payable list is a $49,587.50 payment to Qualtrics, a company widely used for student ‘climate and culture’ surveys. These surveys often contain invasive questions about students’ beliefs, attitudes, and home life, creating a data-surveillance system without transparent parental consent.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Email the Board (contact info on the district website): ‘Regarding the $49,587.50 payment to Qualtrics in the Accounts Payable report (Item III.B.4), what is this software for? If it is for student surveys, we demand to see all survey questions before this payment is approved.’
💰 Impact: $49,587.50
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| HIGH CONCERN (LEVEL 8) |
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District Spending $145k on 250 New iPads
The board is set to approve a $145,737.50 purchase of 250 new iPads for students under Consent Agenda Item III.B.5.2. The district has not provided evidence that this added screen time improves academic outcomes or what direct instruction it will replace.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Email the Board (contact info on the district website): ‘Before voting on the Apple purchase in Item III.B.5.2, please publish the independent, non-vendor-funded evidence of academic gains from existing device programs, and state how much daily screen time these new iPads will add for a typical student.’
💰 Impact: $145,737.50
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| NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 7) |
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Grants Push ‘Health and Wellness’ Into After-School Programs
The district is accepting three ‘Chrysalis Grants’ totaling $21,000 for after-school programs. The grant agreements mandate that these programs deliver specific ‘health and wellness’ lessons, allowing an outside organization to dictate curriculum content to students outside of the normal parental review process.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND REVIEW: Contact the board regarding Items III.B.5.12 and III.B.5.18. Ask who developed the ‘health and wellness’ curriculum and demand that all lesson materials be made public for parental review before these grants are accepted.
💰 Impact: $21,000 (Strings Attached)
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| NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 7) |
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New Student Data Platform ‘Bound’ Gathers Activity Data
The district is approving a contract with ‘Bound,’ a software platform for managing student activity data. The agreement’s Data Protection Addendum gives the company a license to collect, use, and create ‘Aggregated Statistics’ from student data, creating another pipeline of student information flowing to a third-party vendor.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND ANSWERS: Email the board to pull Item III.B.5.1 from the Consent Agenda. Ask: ‘Who owns the student data entered into the Bound platform? What specific data points are collected? How can parents opt their children out of this data collection?’
💰 Impact: Your Child’s Privacy
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| NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 6) |
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District to Use Off-Site ‘Therapeutic Classroom’ Program
The district is entering an agreement for students to attend a ‘therapeutic classroom program’ run by Heartland AEA in another district. While intended for students with IEPs, these programs can involve psychological interventions and data collection that go beyond academic support, often with limited direct parental involvement.
Recommended Action Plan
OPT-OUT ALERT: Email the board regarding Item III.B.5.8. Ask what specific therapeutic models are used in the Heartland program, what data is collected on students, and what the exact parental notification and consent process is for every non-academic intervention.
💰 Impact: Undisclosed
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| ALERT (LEVEL 4) |
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‘Mental Performance Training’ Introduced for Student Athletes
A $1,000 contract will provide ‘mental performance training’ for the boys’ basketball team. This is a form of psychological coaching that can introduce concepts of therapy and mindset management into a school athletic program, blurring the lines between coaching and mental health intervention.
Recommended Action Plan
MONITOR: Regarding Item III.B.5.11, ask the board if this program is a pilot for wider implementation and whether parents of the athletes have been given a full curriculum of the training for review and consent.
💰 Impact: $1,000
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