My name is Nicole Neily, and I'm the President of Parents Defending Education. We're a national grassroots organization working to reclaim our schools from activists promoting harmful agendas, and fighting against indoctrination in the classroom -- and for the restoration of a healthy, non-political education for our kids.
We are also standing with parents like you who are troubled by what's happening in our schools today.
You might be wondering how something so outrageous -- the FBI being mobilized against parents for simply speaking up for their own children -- could happen in "the land of the free."
It all started recently, when the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the current Administration asking for help silencing parents like you who are demanding change at school board meetings.
In their letter, NSBA cites a tiny number of minor incidents to insinuate that parents who are criticizing and protesting the decisions of school boards are or may be engaging in "domestic terrorism and hate crimes." While PDE naturally does not support anyone who uses violence or threats against school board members, officials, or teachers, the NSBA choosing to invoke the PATRIOT Act (which was passed after 9/11 to uncover potential terrorist plots) takes it WAY too far.
The association of legitimate protest with terrorism and violence reveals both NSBA's contempt for parents and their unwillingness to understand and hear the sincere cries of parents on behalf of their children.
In short, NSBA's letter was a thinly veiled threat, intended to intimidate into silence and submission the very constituents -- parents and taxpayers like you, -- that its members ostensibly represent. And the Department of Justice is wholly complicit in this charade.
