Looking for official documentation of those lessons or the policies that motivated them? Better have millions of dollars in the piggy bank because that's what these taxpayer funded institutions are demanding parents pay for access to public records through FOIA request.  

The impetus for the sudden interest from parents in school activities is obvious. Attempts by educators to indoctrinate children with covid propaganda, including lessons on "anti-vaxxers" and even giving children vaccines without parental consent led to a wave of parental participation in how their local schools operate.

Multiple state supreme courts have blocked parental lawsuits and set a precedent giving schools immunity from litigation, specifically concerning health related policies.  The only other option for citizens with children was to force their way into school board meetings and watch every move of the people involved. 

FOIA requests have become frequent because schools refused to offer lesson transparency.  In other words, school officials and teachers unions assert that they are not required to tell parents what their children are being taught, so the only way to know is to press the issue through access to public records. 

But getting a FOIA request fulfilled is becoming a nightmare - Schools continue to believe that they do not answer to the public and are using every loophole at their disposal to stop parents from getting the info they need.  One such loophole is the use of fees related to FOIA.  Legally, the fees are not allowed to surpass the actual costs required for employees to gather the requested information.  However, school officials are ignoring this requirement and hyperinflating the fees in order to dissuade parents from continuing FOIA. 

One such example is the Rochester Community School District in Michigan, which was recently forced to pay nearly $190,000 to parent Elena Dinverno as settlement for allegedly keeping a 'dossier' on her after she criticized their virtual learning policy during the covid padnemic.  District officials reportedly contacted Dinverno's employer and used the dossier to get her fired.