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February 8 2023

Open Letter to the Teaching and Learning Committee

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Please respect our intellectual freedoms and allow our students freer access to challenging ideas. Please maintain the current consideration process.

February 7 2023

Does SDW Want Transparency? Or Censorship?

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What’s most concerning is the ease for someone to censor material based on bigoted beliefs under the guise of protecting children, thus removing material geared toward marginalized students without the public being the wiser. A parent may censor their own child, but that’s where the line needs to be drawn. No one should limit anyone else’s kids simply because they disagree with the content.

February 7 2023

“An egregious assault on the protection of intellectual freedom”

Books, Open Letters censorship, library, parents, policy, rights, school board, students, teachers, transparency

I have lived in this community for over twenty years. I have raised two children who attended this school district. I grew up in a small town 25 minutes from here just over the county line. We had a tiny school library and a tiny public library. But I was fortunate to have the benefit of an aunt who began her professional career as a children’s section librarian and who worked her way up to eventually be the director of the entire public library system of a large metropolitan city. That aunt passed away this year. But she left a legacy […]

January 31 2023

Navigating Special Education

Special Education parents, personal experiences, special education, students, support, teachers

Part 1 in a series of articles sharing one family’s experiences, information they’ve learned, and the resources available to families and children.

January 13 2023

Alliance Statement on the 1-11-23 Board Meeting

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The Alliance for Education in Waukesha is deeply disturbed by the actions that the School District of Waukesha Board took at its monthly meeting on Wednesday night. [View meeting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgEgoJSrAg ] Although we are heartened that the Board chose not to force a unilateral business casual dress code onto SDW staff which would have made their day-to-day jobs much more physically difficult and painful, we are saddened by how their actions have sought to single out, alienate and/or out LGBTQ+ students in the district and force SDW staff to be put in the middle in notifying SDW parents of students’ […]