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Heads up! Our parent watchdogs have scanned the upcoming agenda for Waukegan CUSD 60. We found 6 items that need your immediate attention before the vote.
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District Buys Student Behavior and Data-Mining Platform
| 📅 Vote Scheduled July 28, 2026 |
The board is set to approve a $145,757 payment to Branching Minds Inc. for a ‘MTSS CORE PLATFORM.’ MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) is a system used to collect and analyze student academic, behavioral, and social-emotional data to assign ‘interventions.’ This creates a detailed digital dossier on your child, often without your specific consent for each data point collected or intervention assigned. It’s a backdoor for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and psychological profiling in the classroom.
Recommended Action Plan
PACK THE ROOM: We need parents at Tuesday’s meeting. Sign up for public comment and email the Board of Education: ‘I do not consent to the data-mining and behavioral profiling in the Branching Minds MTSS platform. Vote NO on the payment to this vendor under Item 16.A.’ (Verify board member emails on the district website.)
💰 Taxpayer Impact: $145,757
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| 🚨 HIGH CONCERN (LEVEL 10) |
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Paying Mental Health Clinic $190k for School-Based Services
| 📅 Vote Scheduled July 28, 2026 |
The board is paying The Josselyn Center, an external mental health clinic, $189,816.80. This indicates a significant expansion of school-based mental health services. These clinics can operate without a parent being present, creating a therapeutic relationship with your child that you are not part of. This raises serious questions about parental consent, who owns the therapy notes, and whether these services are used to push ideology on vulnerable students.
Recommended Action Plan
PACK THE ROOM: Sign up for public comment and email the Board of Education: ‘Parents must be the sole arbiters of their children’s mental healthcare. We oppose the massive expansion of school-based clinics without parental presence. Vote NO on the payment to The Josselyn Center under Item 16.A.’ (Verify board member emails on the district website.)
💰 Taxpayer Impact: $189,816.80
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| 🚨 HIGH CONCERN (LEVEL 9) |
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Tricking Parents into Signing Away Rights in Student Handbook
| 📅 Review on July 28, 2026 |
The new Student Support Handbook contains a signature form for using student images. The form states, ‘IF NO BOXES ARE CHECKED, BUT YOU HAVE SIGNED THE CONSENT FORM, CONSENT WILL BE TREATED AS BEING GIVEN FOR ALL CATEGORIES.’ This is a ‘negative option’ trap designed to trick busy parents into giving broad consent for their child’s image to be used by the district and even third-party commercial and non-profit groups. This is a deceptive practice that violates the principle of informed parental consent.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Email the Board of Education: ‘Item 18.B, the Student Handbook signature page, uses deceptive negative-option language to trick parents into surrendering their rights. This form must be rewritten to require explicit, opt-in consent for each category before it is sent to parents.’ (Verify board member emails on the district website.)
💰 Taxpayer Impact: Parental Consent Rights
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| 🚨 HIGH CONCERN (LEVEL 9) |
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Inserting School Staff into Police Investigations of Your Child
| 📅 First Reading on July 28, 2026 |
A proposed new policy (6025) for police interviews states that if a parent is not present when police question a student suspect, a school ‘mental health professional’ must be there. This inserts a school employee into a criminal investigation of your child, bypassing your right as a parent to be the primary support and counsel. It creates a situation where a school psychologist or counselor could be gathering information on your child for the school’s purposes under the guise of a police interview.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Email the Board of Education: ‘Regarding Policy 6025 (Item 18.A), I oppose allowing a school mental health professional to sit in on a police interview with my child without my presence. This is a violation of my parental rights. This clause must be removed.’ (Verify board member emails on the district website.)
💰 Taxpayer Impact: Parental Rights
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| ⚠️ NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 7) |
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Watering Down Discipline with ‘Restorative’ Policies
| 📅 Vote Scheduled July 28, 2026 |
The new agreement with Waukegan Police for School Resource Officers (Item 12.A) explicitly states the partnership will include ‘restorative methods rather than only discipline.’ This is code for ‘Restorative Justice,’ an ideology that often reduces consequences for bad behavior. This, combined with a new policy (6025) preventing SROs from issuing tickets, signals a move away from holding students accountable, which can make schools less safe for everyone.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Email the Board of Education: ‘I am concerned that the ‘restorative methods’ language in the SRO agreement and the ban on SRO-issued tickets in Policy 6025 will lead to a less safe school environment. We need accountability, not weaker discipline.’ (Verify board member emails on the district website.)
💰 Taxpayer Impact: School Safety
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| ⚠️ NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 7) |
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School ‘Wraparound Center’ Bypassing Parents
| 📅 Meeting on July 28, 2026 |
The agenda (Item 13.C) reveals the district is laying off staff from its ‘Wraparound Center.’ This confirms the existence of this center. ‘Wraparound’ services are a Trojan horse for providing students with health, mental health, and social services at school, often without direct parental involvement for every service. Parents need to know what this center does, what services it provides, and what consent is required before their child is sent there.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Email the Board of Education: ‘The mention of a ‘Wraparound Center’ in Item 13.C is concerning. I demand a full, public presentation on the services offered by this center, its funding sources, and the specific, opt-in parental consent forms used for every service it provides.’ (Verify board member emails on the district website.)
💰 Taxpayer Impact: Parental Oversight
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