Why are parents being hit with multimillion dollar fees to review classroom material?

[@christinemclaurin2631]

If it's not public then why is a private entity getting taxpayer funds to operate?

[@hanshansen3885]

As far as I know charter schools get tacpayer funds but they are also a private entity but that is really another issue. You assume that because something(an agency or department) is federal, state or local run then you as a taxpayer have access to all information they have. That is very far from the truth and there are plenty of examples that I know you would agree on.

[@duanenichols8666]

Just like CPS transcripts they don't want the public to know what they do to children

[@Allen-w9d]

"If it's not public then why is a private entity getting taxpayer funds to operate?" Why are private individuals getting taxpayer funds to pay rent and buy groceries and get medications? The government is legally obligated to pay for a child's education and those funds go to the school the child attends.

[@Haystack63]

@@Allen-w9d You mean "taxpayers" are obligated to pay for a child's education. Every county in the US has taxes on which school district you live in. And you have to pay whether or not you even have children.

[@SweatinSixty]

Keep voting out your school board until these fees go away.

[@AliceHolbrooke-lc4ty]

Lol, those aren't fees, that is extortion and suppression.

[@RCenal]

Thats insane This should be considered extortion

[@williamstreet4304]

She asked for 6 months of emails containing a single word. Any decent IT support person would be able to do that search in 15 minutes even if they had to let the computer run overnight to produce the emails. If delivered electronically, the most it could cost is the cost of a cd or external drive. They can't charge for the labor. That is part of the agency's requirement under the law. They can only charge for direct cost of materials.

[@AC-cg6gz]

which they have none because its electronic

[@Wicked-gm2ie]

My work has an email system that you can search words to find something that is years old in your email. I’m pretty sure most emails make it possible to search through emails without having to scroll. No IT needed. The employees should know how to do that especially if they get work in their email they have to follow up on at a later time.

[@christinecrow4251]

So what happens with e-mails with children's personal information on it? With current privacy laws wouldn't it be illegal for them to hand this kind of information to anyone who comes up and asks for it? If it is illegal, then wouldn't every single one of those e-mails need to be checked and any information blacked -out? If this is the case, this is no longer a case of a simple IT request. Depending on the word and how broad the request, this could still mean millions of email. For example if she asked for something like Covid from all staff (which includes cooks and the speech pathologist) instead of narrowing her search down to say Covid safety procedures and only from the principals and superintendents. Even then, I am pretty sure their regulations would require that someone check every email for students' personal information.

[@williamstreet4304]

@@christinecrow4251 Christine, you make a valid point. Through dozens of FOIA requests during my career, I can't remember one that had redactions in the response. Although, I never requested anything that would likely have any personal information of minors. They definitely had personal information of individuals who were affected. But not of minors. Still, we need to find a way to stop schools from using exorbitant costs to deter requests.

[@ericbonanno5214]

If it's government funded, then it's 100% a public body. Especially when it comes to PUBLIC schools where the word PUBLIC is literally used to describe it.

[@hanshansen3885]

What you write is correct but what you imply is incorrect.

[@tiffanie7139]

Who the hell are they paying $45/hr to because we good well know it’s not teachers!

[@Skindiver986]

That’s the low end for teachers

[@tiffanie7139]

@ really?! What state are you in?

[@Psalm1188]

They’re paying demons to groom their children…and I’m talking about the teachers, all faculty and the school board.

[@SalamiCellar]

Teachers don't deserve 45/hr in an American where 30% of kids 5-17 are reading at a 3rd grade level

[@john_in_phoenix]

Somebody in India.

[@Shield.Maiden]

We pay taxes. FOIA Should be free.

[@peppergottbeheat5248]

It’s in the frickin name! Free Dom of information!! F

[@sislertx]

Well...the courts determined Someone has to pay for the time and paper involved...and having worked in. The federal government my whole life...played in halls of congress..it has become one od the most vile places on earth. and that trickles down.

[@FosterTravis1071]

Nope...

[@lettucesalad3560]

@@peppergottbeheat5248 Did you ask DOGE if they agree?

[@tazz-ng5uk]

Not in Detroit gov is piece trash. She broke her laws and I doubt held responsible. Just like why wasn't BLM terrorists u know six feet apart. Plus when only like five can show up to funeral. The gov allows 1000 BLM to protest. I say pick them up fine kid or parent million dollars. If nothing stupid 2 yrs federal jail. If u burned MINNEAPOLIS or threatened trump 30 yrs. U have 10 yr old with mother father 3 million the family pays 10 yrs old gets 30 yrs. Kids want be adult they can be in a supermax with top killers and rapist. Hold all responsible.

[@Daregrad420]

From $33million to $1000?????? Someone needs to be in jail

[@oliphauntsneverlie6227]

Yes even $1.00 is to much.

[@ripvanrevs]

Bidenomics!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@benjaminshropshire2900]

Jail? Probably no. Fired? Definitely yes. (Jail would require showing actual malice rather than just incompetence.) That said, $1k actually seems reasonable because there will likely be a need to hand check everything that pops up in the search to be sure it's not unnecessary doxing someone.

[@modelsnstuffreveiws6628]

@@benjaminshropshire2900nope. A FOIA is not just for the rich. 1k is not reasonable and even a poor concerning parent should be given access. It’s federally mandated so it’s free.99

[@hanshansen3885]

@@benjaminshropshire2900 It is actually a lot more work because be all sensitive data needs to be manually redacted. The only reason it got down to $1k was because she adjusted her FOIA request.

[@OzlemSuleyman]

With Elon and Trump now working with Qvarden Token is going to absolutely blow up

[@rutrowmedia]

They are not educating. They are grooming

[@sdh9233]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅only you child 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@lettucesalad3560]

You or the school?

[@marievogt4705]

​@@sdh9233 "Only you child"? Did you fail grammar? I guess that's why you needed all the emojis.

[@vladdestroyer5177]

@@sdh9233 go away, groomer.

[@NiaLaLa_V]

@@lettucesalad3560 Fact check the claim you self righteous zealots. public school is the place US children get assaulted the most, it is well established by 3rd party observations.

[@SladeWilson-n8s]

In Michigan why does the school get public funds if its not public?? Somebody needs to go after these grewmers.

[@martinburns7928]

Those records don't belong to the school district, or the county, not even the state, Those records belong to U.S. citizens! Period !

[@alexarzamendi9475]

Under what legal statutes? The law obviously disagrees with you.

[@kashawnb8102]

​@@alexarzamendi9475No. FERPA provides parents and eligible students with the right to inspect and review the student's education records, and nothing in the FERPA statute or regulations permits educational agencies and institutions to charge parents or eligible students for fees or costs associated with exercising that right.

[@annep.1905]

@@alexarzamendi9475 If they took this to court, the parents would win, at least in a court with good judges.

[@hanshansen3885]

@@annep.1905 Sorry to burst your bubble but they would not win.

[@andreaparke4899]

Freedom of information is supposed to be free.

[@NiaLaLa_V]

It is. We have used it to expose a lot of corruption that would have got us deleted in the past. Even vegans successfully used that legislation to take on the meat lobby which is the biggest lobby in the world. Yall parents are getting screwed.

[@jackmandu]

The responder is allowed to charge reasonable fees for administrative and copying, but we’re talking about

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

Says who?

[@jomiddleton4225]

Sound like the school are hiding something bad

[@RCenal]

​@jackmandu No Any amount of money for these pieces of information should be gone

[@Al-Brown_BluesChannel]

How on earth is that even possible ??? Requesting information should be a basic right ... Being forced to pay that amount of money is definitely a kind of punishment.

[@Poordirtfarmer]

You should see what we go through getting police records

[@brianhaflin9799]

Request for information is never free and is always based on the amount of work needed to complete the request, cost to provide, and any legal fees from lawyers that need to review the information to ensure nothing is being released that might violate the law or would need additional justification from the person requesting the information.

[@paul.mcguinness6075]

No need to pay these fees. Take the info, it's public. Anyone in the way gets steamrolled by the parents. Others get sniped!

[@bloodbath576]

You american people are so complacent that they done tier of stealing from your taxes and social # now theybusing the single parent why bc the school education system own your child

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

​@@brianhaflin9799bs. They're just charging people fees to discourage foia requests thinking this is legal. If it is legal, guess what gets to change?

[@ericg3002]

Everyone needs to push for school choice. When he changed from public school to a charter school, his grades and attitude at school got so much better. He is in second grade and now doing so much better.

[@Unapologetikallyblaque]

Charter schools are public schools.

[@ibsnafu1]

Parents: If schools wanna play hardball, just remember schools get paid by the # of students enrolled and by attendance. If enough of you homeschool or put your kids into private schools, you will literally put public schools OUT OF BUSINESS. Time to boycott/cancel the public school system.

[@kgpj85]

Came to write this!

[@LCmonman]

💯 yes

[@NiaLaLa_V]

YES. We just watched this in washington state. They magically figured out how to fix the problems when enrollment rates dipped too low.

[@JOEY-710]

They still take taxes from people around the school regardless if ur kid is there or not

[@THall-vi8cp]

@JOEY-710 Schools are funded based on enrollment and attendance. The state may collect taxes to be used in funding schools, but it won't give funding to schools for students who aren't there. Low enrollment hits schools right in the wallet.

[@roselynn816]

Im in missouri and i was definitely on some list, because i called the schools and district and said my daughters would not be using bathrooms with biological males, among other things. Never had issues with the same schools with my older 2 kids that had already graduated but then the world goes woke and my younger 3 kids are in these schools. My kids were targeted, I was eating calls from the principal every single day, I was being told I had to come pick up my kids from school they weren't allowed to be there because of a no-touch policy where my two biological full-blooded daughter's hugged each other in the hallway before a class, it was abuse of power. Took my kids out in middle school, never looked back! I educate them at home now, and my daughter say they learn more in 5 minutes with me than I did in a whole year in the classroom.

[@BlipperBoop]

You did the smartest and most rewarding thing for your littles.❤

[@zachariahbarber5794]

Sounds like the trump admin needs to look into the Rochester school district.. sounds awfully suspect

[@davidulmer9774]

You mean every single school in the US. Gender ideology, DEI, and CRT is being taught in schools all over the US, even in most of the city and states that have ruled to take them out. This is why they come up with ways like this to stop you from finding out.

[@pamelagetz4550]

They will be looking into the entire school systems of all of the USA! They forget who pays their salary!

[@HowardsHuge]

Well until u little American cowards are ready to strap up. U'd better not say a single word about what it enemy does to u or ur kids

[@HowardsHuge]

Be quiet and pay some more taxes coward

[@EshDerp1425_Monke]

@@davidulmer9774Nuh uh, not in my county

[@annai157]

Homeschool. Defund public schools.

[@jakegunning61]

No that would be dumb most homeschool kids are not the brightest

[@RCenal]

​@jakegunning61 You would be surprised Have you seen many of the public school kids lately How bright are they Many cant read or do simple math

[@annai157]

@jakegunning61 LOL. Nice try😉

[@danabuch324]

@@jakegunning61 Maybe you should look up the statistics. You really are an example of stupidity of most public school children.

[@HPFan4Life81]

@@annai157 Or ended up being abused

[@tattedchick31]

Because the groomers want to hide exactly what they've put into the curriculum

[@jackvance6025]

If how they calculate the FOIA bills is any reflection of how they are teaching our students, no wonder our kids are graduating with nominal education!

[@hanshansen3885]

@jackvance6025 How much money would you need to read through over *21 million* pages and redact all sensitive data on parents, students and employees? With sensitive data I am talking about student grades, social security numbers, contact information, health issues and so on.

[@catherinehowell2163]

I did FOIA requests at one point in my federal service with the DoD. We were only able to charge $25 per hour of working the time to pull emails, go through records, and review meeting notes, etc. $46 per hour is ludicrous!!

[@NoGlockTrucker]

$25 per hour is ludicrous. Your wages are already being payed.

[@christinecrow4251]

If there was a time limit involved, then the people scanning the emails for student's personal information would have had to do it while at the same time doing their normal jobs. Their normal job requirements don't just cease because they have to scan tens of thousands of emails and check everyone for childerens' personal information. This means that there was probably some overtime involved, due to the shear amount of emails. Remember who every was tasked with scanning all of those emails would normally be doing a regular job, those responsibilities don't just magically disappear when something like this happens. THink about the shear amount of emails that have to be checked before being handed to a random stranger.

[@catherinehowell2163]

@ Those of us working FOIAs never saw the $25 per hour. It was Uncle Sam claiming the money because they had to pay me and others despite not doing our regular duties because we legally had to respond to a FOIA.

[@pamelagetz4550]

Taxpayers pay their salary! They have the right to ask anything that pertains to their children! How BIZARRE is this! 😜🤪😢

[@IRSFRAUDEXPOSED]

you should stop paying taxes , read the constitution - Google " Losthorizons federal income tax law in a nutshell "

[@epilepticwelder]

👺👹p3d0feelia pandemic🤢🤢🤮🤮

[@hanshansen3885]

I am sorry but taxpayers do not pay someone to manually redact over 21 million pages for sensitive data that pertains to ALL children and parents and employees in the school district. Or maybe you are one of those people who have no problems with total strangers getting personal information on you and your children. That could be student grades, social security numbers, contact information, health issues and so on.

[@epilepticwelder]

@ nothing needs to be redacted, thats like saying your doctor needs to erase everyone elses, to show you your xray

[@hanshansen3885]

@@epilepticwelder No that is not the same. The doctor ONLY show you your own xray, he/she does not just give you access to all xrays for the entire district. The mother in question did not just request information about her own child(ren).

[@Songulilknur-h8p]

Qvarden Token has two of the largest Tesla shareholders already; most likely something is coming

[@9davidlong]

Cameras need to be in each classroom so parents can access with password to observe what's going on in the classroom anytime they want to.

[@LisaMccarty-fm2ec]

Pretty sure if parents had access to video of what goes on in schools these days, the schools would be empty. As they should be. They rooted out alot of the good teachers who refused to go along with their agenda. Now they have teachers who don't even know whats in the constitution teaching kids.

[@ryanupchurch9683]

Every school bus has cameras. Almost every day care has cameras. Hell even doggy day care has cameras. But no cameras to watch your most vital thing in your life

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Classroom cameras with a distinct password protected login for each parent who must sign an NDA to not share the password to non-parents/guardians (to protect them from sickos.) But so that parents can see what their kids are being exposed to. Seems reasonable to me.

[@Csr2317]

As a teacher I completely agree! It would go both ways, parents could see how idiotic their children behave and difficult that makes teaching, and parents could also make sure the teacher is actually doing their job as educators of the academic curriculum and not politics

[@BlipperBoop]

Our school has 7th graders who still ask for help with how to spell words in this sentence. Let that sink in.

[@VipulbhaiTaviyad-fn3wo]

Trump is expected to mention Qvarden Token this week and the ICO is already almost sold out

[@Tyranix97]

Ask the State Board of Education to get involved. They can review the case and tell any District under their control to produce the requested documents (and things) with their current budget, appropriations, and staff. ... ... ... Also, IMHO, class curriculum should be part of the Public record, available for public review, like any other public documents. After all, teachers are paid to teach district approved lessons. … And, these materials should be posted on the district website, like agenda packets, so parents can follow along.

[@susanestes222]

Public schools, all notes should be public forum

[@christinecrow4251]

Are you saying that children's personal and privacy information should be made public? Personally, I do not anyone to be able to just go up to the school and put in a request and get my child's private information. So when you say all notes, do you really truly want all notes to be available to anyone who asks for them?

[@sagarasosuke5446]

Sound like the entire school district needs to be investigated and imprisoned...

[@CONFEDERATEHERO-lv7oz]

Shouldn't that be public information 🤔

[@nancienordwick4169]

Let's make laws saying public boards, or boards of companies that get any government monies, are required to post their minutes on line for a year by within 3 days of each meeting! Proble. Solved!

[@pandafamily9879]

The public has no Idea how much schools actually hides from them. It sickens me to know that these are the people teaching our kids.

[@dawolvx3098]

Remember when they would send you home with the years curriculum for free?

[@cef-ym3gb]

🇺🇸 Home school..🇺🇸

[@JescaML]

Not many can.

[@user-ln8hp4vt5z]

Zero Tolerance for these Elected Criminal Representatives. How Pathetically Criminal.

[@Desiree-g5h]

Most are unelected officials

[@user-ln8hp4vt5z]

@ Zero Tolerance for the Unelected Criminals. Thank you for your reply 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸.

[@grettalemabouchou6779]

Crazy......pull the kid out and homeschool and sue the crap out of them along with a FULL INVESTIGATION.😊

[@kathleencarter7231]

OUTRAGEOUS! THERE'S NO WAY PARENTS SHOULD PAY ONE DIME TO SEE CLASSROOM CURRICULUM! DON'T DO IT!! TAXPAYERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO REVIEW ANTHING INVOLVING THEIR CHILD'S EDUCATION!! SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE!! THIS WILL NOT STAND!!

[@sbielec30]

I agree. But this parent is asking for emails… which tells me this story isn’t the full story. A lesson plan can easily be printed. Emails are another story (having to check you are not giving out personal information).

[@Dayholly86]

Please, no caps lock.

[@christinecrow4251]

The lady asked for 6 months of emails from a district that has over 6,000 employees. I saw in one of the comments that request would have been over 21 million emails. Each one of those email would need to be checked for children's personal and privacy information before the emails could be sent out. Then all of that information would need to be redacted. Who exactly do you think was tasked with doing this? How long do you think it would have taken them? Say the secretary designated one hour a day for doing it, because remember she still has to do her other responsibilities, how many days, would it take her to go through that many emails? So if the school has to hire extra people to do the scanning/redacting, who should have to pay those new temporary employees salary? How much do temp agencies charge by the hour?

[@kathleencarter7231]

@christinecrow4251 Oh, hell, if what you are saying is true, it's no wonder they're going to close down the DOE! It's become too cumbersome to manage! They'll streamline and eliminate most of this kind of excessive waste and garbage! And not a minute too soon!!

[@jahearme4259]

Medical records and school records should belong to the person they are written on

[@sbielec30]

You are correct. These parents are not asking for records on their child. This parent is asking for emails and curriculum. Two totally different things.

[@avssmith1]

The lady was asking for 3 months of emails from who knows how many employees - those aren't her child's school records.

[@jasonswiatkowski9127]

FERPA laws cover educational records the way HIPAA laws cover medical records.

[@bitburg40]

Shut the dept. of education down, no more federal money for public schools, give the federal money to parents to choose their own schools.

[@UltraGamma25]

Remove the taxes, stop wealth transfer.

[@tedmoser3657]

They're public schools, all records are open to the public.

[@jasonswiatkowski9127]

No, not all records are open to the public. FERPA laws protect the privacy of student records. Violating FERPA can cause a school to lose federal funding. Any record request has to be manually reviewed to make sure protected private info isn't released.

[@KalenderUmut]

Qvarden Token is easily going to hit $1 this month

[@lisasmith8517]

It sounds like parents need to simply opt out of those schools one way or another. I wouldn't EVER be okay with this.

[@MrLydeck]

So the media should buy them and make them public

[@cutehumor]

When my dad was in a nursing home, I asked for medical records. they did the same exact BS thing. it was like 1000 bucks for two weeks of records. I didn't pay it

[@Firetomysoul]

Parents have a right to know what is being taught in the classroom. This is crazy.

[@PatchworkSchoolhouse]

Frannie Block is a rockstar! Finally, someone who is a REAL JOURNALIST! Keep digging for truth Frannie, you are needed!

[@agoogleaccount2861]

Because they are teaching things they shouldn't and are hiding from possibly being removed from employment and lawsuits against schools for certain things

[@ano070602]

This is why school boards need to audited yearly. Then the persons in authority need to be removed.

[@tattedchick31]

Need to stop calling them authority. They are not authority over parents but when people keep calling them that, they truly believe they are.

[@ano070602]

@tattedchick31 very true.

[@LuveniaPfeifer]

Highly likely there will be partnerships between X or Tesla with Qvarden Token

[@Poordirtfarmer]

We already paid for that information and the storage of the information and the people who did the work

[@moonpie6315]

best comment

[@christinecrow4251]

Do you really want any random person to be able to go into the school and put in a request and get your children's personal/privacy information? Even if you are OK with it, most people aren't and there are laws against the school giving it out. Every single one of those emails that she requested, had to be checked for this kind of information first. THen when they person scanning the email finds it, the information has to be redacted, or blacked out. The person putting in the request is paying for the time it takes to check for and redact that information.

[@nickblack8350]

​@christinecrow4251 do you really want random people teaching your children things your not even allowed to know what they are?

[@Poordirtfarmer]

@christinecrow4251 i request records a lot. You wouldn't believe what they put us through.

[@kimradspinner4620]

Id say someone got something they need to hide 😂 they should be jailed on this asking for ridiculous amounts of money for simple transparency yeah they are doing something illegal or hiding maps

[@christinecrow4251]

Children's privacy and personal information can not be released. Every email has to be reviewed and any privacy or personal information has to be redacted or blacked out. I noticed that the reporters did not mention how many e-mails were generated from the original request, but I saw a poster on her state it was over 21 million e-mails. COnsidering it was a 6 month request in a district with over 6,000 employees, I can believe that. If each of those 6,000 employees sent only one single email per day during that time period that would be over 1 million emails. I have a feeling the employees sent a lot more than one a day. If her six months window was during COVID when literally every single thing was done by email, that number would skyrocket. I have a feeling the school district would have been required to contract with a temp agency to hire temporary workers to do all that redacting.

[@JimiGosu]

How can it be that difficult??? Run a search of all files, download the search result, compress the email copies as a ZIP file, and send it to the parent. Even $1000 is still far too much. That should be no more than $10 of labor.

[@nonyabidness5708]

As an admin, I disagree... depending on the system it could be much more than $10 worth of labor. That said it's not $1000 worth of labor, either.

[@JimiGosu]

@nonyabidness5708 I suppose they would be printed out in order to deliberately increase the workload and resource usage, but it would be easier on everyone to just send a digital copy and let the person who submits the request decide if they want to print it out themselves.

[@garylancaster3995]

Shut them down NOW

[@cliffthatcher4574]

717K hours of labor?!?!?! There isn't a government worker does that in several lifetimes!

[@LisaMccarty-fm2ec]

That's for sure!

[@The-Oneness11]

Have you ever worked for the government? I do and I work a lot.

[@edennis8578]

​​​@@The-Oneness11717,000 hours is 358 years of full-time work if you include two weeks of vacation per year. Get real.

[@fett_420]

@@The-Oneness11 I used to, and you are the exception, not the rule.

[@The-Oneness11]

@@fett_420 Then I probably have the wrong government job. I need one with less work. Lol.

[@ardiffley-zipkin9539]

An illegal move to block the request. They could do a keyword search of the document to bring the matter to .

[@jonathanjones3126]

Your assuming they hired competent admin workers

[@avssmith1]

I listened to the report. It sounds like the emails of every employee in the district.

[@JacobMoore-f9j]

This is why I'm homeschooling

[@elizabethl6187]

So many reasons to homeschool and no regrets.

[@daniellenoblet5131]

Me too.

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

This is BS on the school's part! At the college where I attended and worked, each class curriculum had to be printed and handed out to each and every student enrolled in that class. The structure of the class, goals, textbooks and suggested extra reading/research are required information. Why are elementary and so forth students not sent home day one with that paper?

[@LycanFerret]

College? That was how it worked in my middle and high school. Every year our classes gave us books detailing the curriculum and exactly what we were going to learn. I live in NY.

[@avssmith1]

The document you're talking about is called syllabus . This new story is talking about a parent asking for the entire curriculum that is every book, every look reading every activity, every text, and every lesson plan the teaxher will do in a given year. And I don't think the parent was asking for a list of everything so they could buy it themselves.

[@liljmat]

We need public cameras in all classrooms!

[@Tony-w5o8o]

Taxpayers paying for it anyways so yes

[@LisaMccarty-fm2ec]

There sure have cameras everywhere else. The question is why don't they have cameras in classrooms? Why don't they have the same security officers or cops in schools that they have in banks, stores, etc. To protect the children from violence? It is as if our children, grand children are disposable like garbage. This has to change. Or keep your kids in homeschooling if you can. There are things going on in schools they don't want parents to know about.

[@economicdevelopmentplannin8715]

Just run for office and change the laws so there will be no public schools.

[@avssmith1]

Why would you want your child watched all day by the public? What a terriblw idea!

[@Tony-w5o8o]

@avssmith1 ya got a point thats for sure yet looks what they doing miss the good ole days when we never heard of this crap

[@henriquezfamily5135]

They have a D average as a passing grade, the generations to come to the workforce with less than a C Average, No, No, this can happen, we are better than this❤️🇺🇸💯

[@meowzers8655]

"The further we can look back in history, the more we can see in the future". Something like that.

[@DavidBrown-qh5cr]

i think its time for parents to start setting up their own parents day where the parents show up and stay with their kids all day to find out what they are learning. either that or equip your kids with body cameras

[@poolhub89]

Win school board election & get it for free.

[@niemand282-r3z]

The people of Michigan pretty much have voted for communism. That state has been another CA for some time.

[@ninjagirl226]

I go back home there in 3 days…ughhhhhh. I actually live in a solid blue state and I prefer it to Michigan and their craziness.

[@ordo_draigo_assault_ham]

Voting should go back to property owners and further given to any American who volunteers to do what they can do for the country. There are worse voters than stewards and the willing. We’re currently in much worse.

[@hoosthere686]

Well tampon Tim is your governor soooooo? We know weird

[@QuietAZdesert]

Bingo - it does sound a lot like the CA school system. Vote blue & live in poo...

[@keithstone7881]

This is the reason why my mother started homeschooling my younger siblings. She also didn’t like the idea of them mandating a rushed vaccine. All implication alluding the possibility that our country truly is compromised.

[@deneenprice4582]

They are hiding guilt 💯 and don't want to be EXPOSED.

[@missf4681]

This is just a way of blocking the parents access to information in my opinion

[@Jmanmyson]

What? And what???? District is a PUBLIC SERVICE!!!

[@CharlesCurran-m9p]

Just another bureaucratic way of chilling any inquiry into their dirty dealings.

[@doombringer1505]

Trump needs a new Secretary of Education. OUTLAW this behavior! I was SHOCKED to hear this! A school curriculum should be given to students, FREE, on the first day of school!

[@richardeddinger8997]

Parents should put button cameras on their kids that way they know for a fact whats going on in the classroom

[@ps603]

The parents need to sue the school system for extortion..

[@ordo_draigo_assault_ham]

The department of education really doesn’t want to exist anymore. If this is the end result, that department is begging to receive mercy.

[@billpointer6451]

Taxation without representation

[@maryharvey6909]

Why can’t the teacher just show the mom the syllabus? Why do you have to go all the way up the chain to where someone wants $33 million? I was a nurse for years and this reminds me of when a patient wanted a copy of their family members records so they could take them to another hospital or another doctor. I just Xerox and gave it to them, with the patient’s permission. Someone told me that I wasn’t allowed to do it, and then it would cost them $.10 a sheet of paper to get it done downstairs and medical records. It’s ridiculous.

[@Razzvolg6767]

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[@tc9727]

Lee County, FL doing the same thing. Dossier kept on "trouble maker parents". Teachers on the clock working against the students and parents.

[@donnamyers2025]

Tax payers ,paid for every camera. No way that they can get away with charging for a review of them.

[@loridavis7086]

In Quincy IL, parents aren’t allowed to visit or sit in their child’s classroom to see what’s going on or what’s being taught. I don’t know if that’s statewide or just Quincy.

[@philipellis3227]

The people involved in this are not educators, they are “administrators”. They have no contact with students

[@protorhinocerator142]

You spelled indoctrinational propagandists wrong.

[@douglaskaye1395]

Your Federal Dept. of Education at work in your state, CLOSE IT DOWN!!!!

[@alexanderrahl7034]

717k hours of labor? You know what this is? This is them having a meeting, pissed off about being asked for this. They asked their IT head what it would take to do, they gave them a realistic estimate, and then they asked about what it would take to have a single person do it manually. The IT head probably laughed and gave them a "hundreds of thousands of hours" answer. And they went with that. Theyre settling on the slowest, hardest option and using it as a means of not doing it at all.

[@russellgilson3536]

All records should be on a website as read only, and publicaly available.

[@LASurvivor2k25]

Parents have a right to know what the teacher's are teaching their kids.

[@juderobert1062]

Anything available via FOIA should already be available online. There is nothing to hide.

[@christinecrow4251]

Do you really want you all of your children's privacy and personal information on-line? I don't. Do you really want any random stranger to be able to just walk into a school and get this information? I don't. Even if you do, it is illegal for the schools to give it out.

[@dejablu1233]

If my taxes go to the school then why does the SC say they’re not subject to disclose to the public? I hate it here

[@GeorgeStrand-o8r]

Insanity and lunacy doesn’t even begin to describe the school districts behavior and their colossal lack of respect to the students parents who by the way pay their salaries through property taxes. There’s a major disconnect somewhere

[@creakyjoints2024]

They REALLY don't want the parents knowing what they are doing. I wonder why? Hmmm?

[@iamcornpop5011]

Teachers make me sick to my stomach these days.

[@aa-yt7wo]

textbook publishers are absolutely evil as well. If you send your kid to government run schools you don't care about your kids. Always vote against funding government run schools.

[@sdh9233]

Me too they have too put up with your bratty kids.

[@FlowerPower-r8h]

It isnt teachers. It is the school board and administrators.

[@marievogt4705]

I totally agree. If I see a blue haired, nose ring dressed like they put on yesterday's clothes off the floor, my kid would never attend that class.

[@sdh9233]

@@marievogt4705 home school

[@ibsnafu1]

How is it even legal to keep this material from parents with their children in the school. This can not be right. "What in the name of all that is holy are they trying to hide?" There should NOT be a fee to know what our children are being taught, it should actually be their right.

[@IRSFRAUDEXPOSED]

PER THE Department of the State - Agreement to Pay Applicable Fees By making a FOIA request, the requester shall be considered to have agreed to pay all applicable fees up to $25.00 unless a fee waiver has been granted 25.00

[@Bumula1]

In a few weeks things will change!

[@y2kmadd]

You can't charge for FOIA requests.

[@Daniel.Rodrigo-05Law]

yes they can time and money and printing etc on hours worked.

[@GrandMasterLynx]

⁠​⁠@@Daniel.Rodrigo-05LawEven so Tax Payers already pay them so why pay extra

[@jonathanjones3126]

​@Daniel.Rodrigo-05Law the school is being paid to do the job with taxes already, they are simply double and triple charging.

[@theshepherdsinn]

Every classroom should have a camera in every corner of the room so parents can watch from home. Or work. Only way for transparency is to let parents have virtual access!!!!! It needs to be in every public school!!!!! Make it happpen!

[@MichelleM18]

They spent over 700,000 hours on the request? No, this needs to be brought to court.

[@christinecrow4251]

I noticed that in the reporting, the reporters did not mention how many emails the original request generated. What a lot of people do not realize is that every single one of those emails has to be reviewed and checked for children's personal and privacy information? It is illegal for schools to hand that kind of information out even in an official records request. I saw a different poster state that it was over 21 million emails. How long would it have taken an employee to read through and then redact that many emails? It was a request for 6 months, if each of the over 6,000 employees sent just one email a day over that 180 day window, that would be over one million emails. That is just one email a day. How many emails do you think get sent per day? Now lets go back to Covid when virtually every thing was being done over email. So I can easily see that 21 million being accurate.

[@dorothyharris2765]

That much money is absolutely insane to ask from parents.

[@enjoydride1083]

Ban these fees. Why review to anything they just need to print them unless they are hiding something.

[@robert96256]

The school district is obligated to give you the information without fee because they are required to!

[@boomer-x-trooper82]

This is why home schooling has sky rocketed. Our group of parents had 18 kids in '21. Today that has grown to 312 kids being home schooled just in one community. FYI - you can keep the cost of education resources way down by joing a group of other parent. That way you can swap text to hand up or down to another child.

[@ShaquitaBriellard]

This is a human rights violation. You can enter a keyword into a search bar within seconds. SMH.

[@christopherwilkinson4503]

This is got to be illegal

[@laattardo]

This is financial intimidation. I understand a REASONABLE fee, this is extortion.