Hiring Outside Activists to Train Student ‘Ambassadors’

Under the cover of the Consent Agenda (Item 23.12), the district plans to pay ‘The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio’ to conduct a ‘YouLEAD’ training series for a select group of students called ‘Ambassadors.’ This is a classic tactic to use outside political activists to cultivate ideological leaders among the student body, teaching them to promote concepts that many parents would object to, all funded with federal Title I dollars.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: $2,200 (Federal Title I Grant)

Approving $81k for Student Digital Surveillance Software

Item 23.3 is a request to purchase ‘Securly Aware, On-Call, Classroom, and Filter’ software. This is not just a web filter. ‘Securly Aware’ is an AI-powered surveillance system that actively scans everything students type in their school Google accounts—emails, chats, and documents—for keywords. It flags students for non-academic issues and can create a permanent behavioral file on your child without your knowledge, violating their privacy and your right to be the first to know about their struggles.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: $81,675.00

Spending Over $500k on a Student Data-Mining Platform

The board is set to approve a massive $516,613.46 contract renewal for the ‘i-Ready’ platform (Item 26.1). Marketed as ‘personalized learning,’ these adaptive programs go far beyond academics. They collect thousands of data points on how your child learns, their emotional responses to questions, and their mindset, which can be used to build a psychological profile. This is a huge data-mining operation being conducted on our children under the guise of math and reading help.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: $516,613.46

Hiding Social-Emotional Programming Inside ‘Educator Grants’

Buried within a list of 21 grants in Item 22.5 are several projects designed to embed Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into the school day. Projects like ‘East Empowering Emotional Wellness’ ($7,750), ‘Regulate and Create: Social-Emotional Learning’ ($4,300), and a ‘Hatton Zen Den’ ($6,000) are not academic initiatives. They are psychological interventions and mindfulness programs that have no place in a public school without explicit, opt-in parental consent.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: $163,620.00 (Total grant package with embedded SEL)

Implementing a Social Credit System for Students

Item 23.8 approves a contract for ‘Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) Rewards.’ This is not about simple rewards; it’s a data-collection system that allows the school to track, measure, and score subjective behaviors. This creates a permanent digital record of your child’s compliance and attitude, essentially a ‘social credit score,’ which can follow them through their school career. This system conditions children to seek government approval for their behavior.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: $2,062.50 (Federal Grant Funded)

Paying Staff for ‘Restorative Practices’ Ideological Training

The district is using federal Title I money to pay staff extra for ‘Restorative Practices Training’ (Item 12.2). ‘Restorative Practices’ is an ideology that often replaces consequences for misbehavior with group therapy sessions. This approach can make classrooms less safe by failing to remove disruptive students and undermines parental authority by teaching children that their feelings are more important than objective rules and accountability.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Extended time pay for six staff members.

Creating New Bureaucrats to Monitor Vulnerable Families

The board is creating a new ‘McKinney-Vento Intake Support Specialist’ job (Item 26.2). While based on a federal law for homeless students, this role expands the school’s reach into family life. The job description includes tracking family living situations (like being ‘doubled-up’) and acting as a point of contact for ‘unaccompanied youth.’ This creates a pathway for the school to provide services and gather data on families, blurring the line between educator and social worker.

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💰 Taxpayer Impact: Salary for a new grant-funded position (TBD).