Silencing Parents at Board Meetings

The board’s public participation policy is a direct assault on your right to be heard. It requires parents to register in writing five full days before a meeting and forces you to get pre-approval from the Superintendent and Board President on your topic. This is a deliberate tactic to control the narrative, filter out dissenting voices, and prevent parents from speaking out on last-minute agenda items that affect their children.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Your First Amendment Rights

Hospital Partnership Bypasses Parental Consent

Item 5.H is a vague agreement with Akron Children’s Hospital to run ‘school-based health centers.’ These clinics put medical and mental health providers on school grounds, where they can interact with your child without you being present. This is a massive parental rights violation waiting to happen, opening the door for services to be provided without your full, informed consent for every interaction. The district has not attached the contract for public review.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Parental consent for medical decisions

Secret Policy Changes Hidden from Public

Under item 5.J, the board is voting on a ‘first reading’ of multiple revised and brand new policies, including a critical one on ‘Student abuse and neglect’ (8462). The district has deliberately hidden the text of these policies from the public agenda. Parents have no way to know what changes are being made before the board votes. This is a severe transparency violation designed to pass controversial policies without scrutiny.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Undisclosed policy changes affecting your child’s safety and your rights.

Approving Student Handbooks Without Public Review

Item 5.K is a vote to approve all student handbooks for the 2026-27 school year. These documents are where radical gender ideology, pronoun policies, and changes to discipline are often hidden. The district has not attached the handbooks to the agenda, asking the board to vote on rules for your child without letting you see them first. This is an intentional lack of transparency.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Hidden changes to discipline, gender, and pronoun policies.

Outside Group Data-Mining Students

Item 5.G approves a $95,465.55 grant from an outside group, ‘Education Revolution Association,’ for a ‘Life Discovery’ pilot program. The fine print mentions ‘student assessments’ and ‘data-sharing requirements.’ This allows an unknown third party to collect psychological and personality data on your child under the guise of ‘career prep.’ The MOU detailing what data is shared is not attached.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: $95,465.55 (Strings Attached)

Bringing Outside Therapists into School

Item 5.E approves a contract with ‘Insight Clinical Counseling’ to provide ‘student services’ on campus. This brings outside therapists into the school to interact with students, creating a pathway for mental health interventions that can occur without parental knowledge or consent for each session. The actual service agreement is not attached, so parents cannot see the terms.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Loss of parental oversight on mental health care.

Hiring ‘Behavior Advisors’ to Track Students

Item 4.I approves hiring ‘PBIS Advisors.’ PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) is a form of Social Emotional Learning that replaces traditional discipline with therapeutic interventions and data tracking. This system creates a permanent behavioral record on your child and promotes ‘restorative’ conversations over real consequences for misbehavior, which can compromise classroom safety.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Your child’s disciplinary record being replaced with a psychological profile.