Letter to Trustees Templates

Dear Trustees,

The government gave authority for education governance to locally elected school boards. School trustees are elected to local school boards to act for the legislature and for their local community.

School trustees exist for the children, and their role is to guide, protect, defend, and advocate for them. Therefore, educational policies are developed on what is best for the growth, protection, and development of the whole child.

Trustees partner with the parents as they provide the children with the best possible teachers and educational opportunities. In doing so, they cannot usurp the role of the parents and family. It seems that the process of guiding, protecting, defending, and advocating for our children is at serious risk.

Most authorities believe our schools are safe. However, concerned parents are beginning to question that point of view.

Why? Look what's been happening in our schools. Safe zones, safe spaces, safe sex, safe puberty blockers, safe cross-sex hormone, safe "gender clinics," and now safe sexually explicit material in the school library. Our children are no longer safe! They are in danger.

Child Sexual Abuse by K-12 School Personnel in Canada: https://www.protectchildren.ca/en/resources-research/child-sexual-abuse-by-school-personnel-in-canada-report/

As a parent and Canadian citizen, I am concerned about the safety and well-being of those children under your authority. Based on what I have seen and the information I have found on your library site, I believe that children or youth have been or could be likely abused or neglected. I believe that books and information found on your library site cause severe risks to the safety and well-being of our children under your authority and care. Children ages 5 years old and up to 17 years old at the schools cited at the end of this email have been or are at risk of being exposed to these books containing sexual references, sexual activity, and sexual material. Some books also show children and adults engaged in or depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity. The main characteristics of those books relate to sexual activity and expose children to individuals engaging in sexually explicit acts, including exposure to adult pornography and encouraging children to masturbate or watch others masturbate.

These books have a sinister agenda. They are not guided by any universal standards of right and wrong. Their foul language lifts the boundaries most parents have set for their children and presents a malevolent dimension that must be curtailed and eliminated. They are used to desensitize children and make them easy prey for predators. Rather than guiding and protecting our children, keeping these books in the libraries offers up our defenseless children to the degradation of immoral authors and others of their ilk. In addition, it makes it easier for potential abusers to target our children.

We claim to protect our children from racism, discrimination, and institutional abuse, while on the other hand, in the name of diversity, we expose them to pornography, toxic sexual behavior, and profane language. I understand that resources must be inclusive and suitable based on diverse social considerations. Nevertheless, resources are to be age-appropriate and within the boundary of the rules of law.

According to the Canadian Center for Child Protection, non-contact sexual abuse is as follows:

  • Encouraging a child to masturbate or watch others masturbate;
  • Secretly recording or observing a child in a private situation for a sexual purpose (voyeurism);
  • Exposing a child to individuals engaging in sexually explicit acts (including exposure to adult pornography);
  • Exposing a child-to-child sexual abuse material;
  • "Flashing" or exposing genitals to a child;
  • Communicating over technology to make it easier to commit a specific sexual offense against a child (luring a child);
  • Taking a picture or recording a video of a child's sexual organs for a sexual purpose.

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    In good faith, I would advise the School Board to remove the books mentioned below from the library immediately, contact the librarian, review those books with teachers and parents, and review material selection policies. Please advise on how and when the board will proceed. Could you please also organize a meeting between parents and board members regarding this issue? Many of my friends from Richmond are concerned and would appreciate meeting the Board.

    I include the following information to help you better understand the abovementioned concern. Please do not hesitate to ask if you need more information regarding those books in your library systems.
     

    Kind Regards,

    [Concerned Parent Name]

     

    Be aware of a series of questionable books found in the Richmond School District:

    Note: The following books contain sexually explicit material, obscene illustrations, scenes of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, alcohol and drug use, bigotry, profane language ex: bitches, cock, dick, motherfucker, fuck, nigger, nigga, pussy, cunt, etc.…

     

    List of Books within the library to be put below:

    Book 1

    Book 2

    Book 3

    Etc…



    Letter to Teachers Templates

    Dear Respected Teachers of [School Name]

    I am writing to you in the capacity of a parent with school-aged children here in [Province/State Name]. Ever since I came to learn about some of the books in my kids' school libraries and what is being taught to minors, I decided to research all public schools in the province, including [School Name].

    To date, I have connected with and befriended numerous parents and caregivers who share my concerns about some of the material being presented to children in the name of diversity and inclusivity. Some of the aforementioned connections are actually parents of students at [School Name]. In the spirit of interfaith and intercultural diversity, we all share one thing in common, namely, a serious concern about pornographic materials being promoted in our public school system.

    I understand that it is challenging to talk about this because of the intense institutional pressure placed upon you to accept all academic materials. However, intervening effectively in the lives of these children is not the sole responsibility of any single agency or institution, but rather it is a shared community concern, and parents have a fundamental right to raise their children as they see fit. Schools should facilitate communication and involvement with parents and the community.

    Each day, child abuse threatens the safety and well-being of our children across Canada. According to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection report on Child Sexual Abuse by K-12 School Personnel in Canada, 67% of offenders worked in Public Schools, 26% in Catholic/Christian Schools, and 7% in Private Schools.

    Child sexual abuse is an epidemic that impacts far too many families and communities. Together parents, teachers, and community members can make a difference, which is why it is imperative that we make it safe to discuss this topic openly and frankly.

     

    According to the Canadian Center for Child Protection, non-contact sexual abuse is as follows:

  • Encouraging a child to masturbate or watch others masturbate
  • Secretly recording or observing a child in a private situation for a sexual purpose (voyeurism)
  • Exposing a child to individuals engaging in sexually explicit acts (including exposure to adult pornography)
  • Exposing a child to child sexual abuse material
  • "Flashing" or exposing genitals to a child
  • Communicating over technology to make it easier to commit a specific sexual offense against a child (luring a child)
  • Taking a picture or recording a video of a child's sexual organs for a sexual purpose

    • Operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, ProtectKidsOnline.ca state that exposure to sexually explicit material may:

  • Prematurely sexualize a child.
  • Incite a child to experiment with sexually explicit behavior to make sense of it.
  • Lead a child to normalize and become desensitized to high-risk behaviour.
  • Shape a child's expectations in relationships.
  • Shape a child's expectations of physical appearances and certain sexual acts.
  • Blur boundaries and increase a child's risk of victimization.
  • Increase a child's health risks (i.e. sexually transmitted infections, sexual exploitation,
  • etc.).
  • Increase a child's risk of problematic sexual behaviour against other children in an effort to experiment.
  • Interfere with a child's healthy sexual development.

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    It also states the following:

    Pornography is often thought of as pictures or videos of nudity or sexual acts. But depicting those sexual acts in animated content and literature is also pornography. That happens whether it is a graphic video or an explicit passage in a book.

    Teachers have a moral and legal obligation to protect children in their care. You might be the only adult in that child's life who oversees them enough even to notice, let alone report, the abuse or neglect. This is a given responsibility that is not to be taken lightly.

    Many of you may be parents yourself; therefore, we reach out to you as parents to other parents who may share some of our concerns about sexually explicit material shown to children under your care.

    Some of us have children in the public systems, including [School Name], so we would appreciate an opportunity to discuss the abovementioned issues privately or publicly with teachers who may share the same concerns. Please reply to this email or contact me directly by phone so we can organize a meeting. We will follow up with you [Date to Follow Up] if we still await a reply.

    I have attached the list of concerning books within [School Name] Library to this email: 

    [date] [name of school] - report.pdf

    Kind Regards,

    [Concerned Parent Name]



    Letter to Principal Op-Out of Class Template

    Subject: [Presentation/Lesson Name] 

     

    Dear [Principal Name], 

    Thank you for emailing the parents this important information. I appreciate your gesture of informing us and following [School Name] protocol.

    After researching some of the above-mentioned work, we have collectively decided as a family that my [Son/Daughter], [Children Name], will not be participating in these presentations on [Date of Presentation]. 

    Will they be only one block each day, or are they the entire day? I ask because we will have to make arrangements for [him/her] if it is the entire day. If it is just one block each day, it is perfectly fine if [Child Name] does his own personal work in the library. 

    Please advise at your earliest possible convenience, [Principal Name], and thank you again for connecting with us regarding this presentation. 

    With gratitude, [Concerned Parent Name] - [Father/Mother] of [Child Name] [(Child School Grade)]