“Eyes on Education” not only provides a tool to share information with other parents, but just by knowing they could be reported and held accountable, school officials will be much more likely to toe the line and follow the law.
Indiana’s Attorney General of Indiana Todd Rokita has announced a new online portal that will allow parents, teachers, principals, and more to report potentially objectionable material in schools for further investigation.
“As I travel the state, I regularly hear from students, parents and teachers about destructive curricula, policies or programs in our schools,” Rokita said in a press release. “Our kids need to focus on fundamental educational building blocks, NOT ideology that divides kids from their parents and normal society.”
He notes that since “the media and schools themselves have continued to deny that this indoctrination is happening,” in Indiana, his office is launching “Eyes on Education.” The platform is designed for “students and parents to submit and view real examples of socialist indoctrination from classrooms across the state.”
Eyes on Education allows those familiar with school curriculum to submit comments and documentation showing potential violations of Indiana law.
For example, Indiana has a law that prohibits teaching any student in pre-kindergarten through third grade about human sexuality, and it also requires schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their name or pronouns.
The state also passed HEA 1447, which requires schools to post a catalog of all books in the school library on its website. Under the law, parents are able to request the removal of a book.
According to the Parents’ Bill of Rights which was created and published by Rokita, Indiana law also prohibits the teaching of concepts such as Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Gender Theory.
Eyes on Education shows several reports of schools teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) or topics on identity and privilege. Several schools also reportedly had gender support plans that help advance a child’s gender transition, usually without parental knowledge. There was one concern about a book that is required reading which graphically depicts a pedophile abducting and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.
Three of the school districts that had reported potential violations dispute that the materials are authentic or are still in use.
For example, officials at Noblesville School District, which had teaching on privilege and CRT, say the materials are no longer used. The same applied to Hamilton Southeastern School District (HSE) which had reports of gender support plans, pro-Black Lives Matter material, and racially divisive material.
Officials at both districts encouraged parents to contact the school districts if they have questions.
Meanwhile, officials at Carmel Clay School District said that the documents on the portal for the district are not authentic. Emily Bauer, director of the district’s community relations, stated, “Multiple documents clearly originated from a now-defunct outside special interest group, and others appear to be online quizzes with no additional context provided. As a tool for purported transparency, it is irresponsible to portray these screenshots as curriculum, as CCS follows the Indiana State Standards.”
The news comes as a report of a Texas principal allowing pornographic books in the school’s library has angered parents. Parents there reported 198 books in the Llano High School library which violate education agency standards and state law. The books are reportedly rated as adult and depict extremely graphic sexual situations.
According to emails obtained by the Daily Signal, the school’s principal is allegedly slowing the review process and giving review committee members 30 days to read an entire book before making a decision and then moving to the next book. With that process, it would take over 22 years to review the 198 books.
Just because a state passes a law to protect students from harmful propaganda or from pornographic books doesn’t mean that schools will quickly obey the law, if they obey it at all. Eyes on Education is a tool that will allow parents and conscientious school employees to report possible violations and allow others to see what is going on at schools.
There is the concern that some of these documents may not actually be material being taught by the school, but that can be determined by the Attorney General’s Office.
Tools like this are essential because so many schools are now either opposed to or apathetic towards keeping children safe from harmful material. The books parents are concerned about aren’t PG-rated; they are astoundingly explicit and perverse. Many depict sexual contact between minors or between minors and adults. These books have no place in school libraries, and any book that has even one sentence of such harmful material should be removed from shelves and classrooms on the same day it is reported.
All schools should be transparent and accountable, but since so many public schools are proving to be incapable or unwilling to do so, parents must take an active role. Eyes on Education not only provides a way for parents to share information with other parents, but school officials, just by knowing they could be reported and held accountable, will be much more likely to toe the line and follow the law.
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