What is the Priority?

Rochester Community School’s Board of Education Trustee Barb Anness (D) was collecting signatures for multiple political petitions at the Rochester Farmers Market on May 7, 2022, as evidenced in the social media post below.  At one point Anness was approached by her constituents and asked about the dossiers and the list and per those that […]

Transphobic?

Should K-12 public schools be teaching Gender Ideology?  Here are a few quotes from an LA Times article on the rise in Gender Dysphoria diagnosis:  “I think it’s gone too far.  For a while, we were all happy that society was becoming more accepting, and more families than ever were embracing children that were gender […]

Lets Talk

Recently, I posted a video on which a teacher and parent shared their experience. RCS classified the video as diversity, equity, and inclusion professional development. The reason this video was posted was to highlight the material the district utilizes for professional development; specifically how material is getting brought into classrooms. As parents, we have been […]

Rochester Community Schools Compiles Dossiers On Parents

On February 16, 2022, in the United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division Hon. Mark A. Goldsmith granted Plaintiff’s Motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint in the case of Dinverno v. Rochester Community School District et al.  Statement of Fact So, what is the case of Dinverno v. Rochester Community […]

Misinformation and Luxury Beliefs

Establishment Media: Jennifer Chambers is a writer for The Detroit News and her latest opinion article titled Fed-up parents press Michigan school boards over masking, other divisive issues will not disappoint her bosses. As she ignores facts in order to support the narrative.   Chambers is not new to this as she wrote and an article […]

How Politics And Poor Leadership are Destroying Public Education

There is no shortage of examples of industries seeing their revenue decline due to poor leadership and failing to keep politics out of their operations.  Go Woke, Go Broke.  The most notable example of this can be seen in sports.  Clay Travis, the founder of Outkick.com, has reported on this topic multiple times, most notably […]

Google It, Coin Flip, & Business First

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” George Santayana Spanish Philosopher Selecting A New Trustee With the recent resignation of Rochester Community Schools (RCS)  Board of Education (BOE) Trustee Andrea Walker-Leidy, the BOE will have the opportunity to select a new Trustee.   The process for filling seats outside of […]

Is The Oakland Press A Public Relations Firm Or A News Outlet?

Rochester Community School’s Board of Education Trustee Andrea Walker-Leidy recently announced her resignation.  Nick Mordowanec, a reporter for The Oakland Press, wrote an article on the resignation. The issue is it reads like a press release and not the reporting of factual events to inform the community.   In the article, there is only a reference […]

Why Is This Okay?

Over time, the culture within RCS has shifted away from supporting student and teacher instructional needs