education, not INDOCTRINATION.

We believe our children’s public education should be based on scholarship and facts, and should nurture their development into the happy, resilient, free-thinking, educated citizens every community needs. Our classrooms should include rigorous instruction in history, civics, literature, math, the sciences, and the ideas and values that enrich our country.

Yet in recent years activists have targeted Fairport and surrounding school districts with a campaign to impose toxic new curriculums and to force our kids into divisive identity groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. Fairport Central Schools Superintendent and Board of Education have already embraced this shift in their approach to education by being early adopters and spearheading New York State's Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Framework.

This new direction is not only at odds with basic American values and traditional family structures, but with our kids’ happiness and ability to succeed in life. Couched in vague slogans such as "Culturally Responsive Teaching"; "social emotional learning"; or "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion", the new curriculum divides our children into “oppressor” and “oppressed” groups. To one, it teaches guilt and shame. To the other, grievance and anger. To all students, it spreads unhappiness, radicalism, and failure.

Fairport Schools are adopting this illiberal mission at the behest of a narrow group of activists — without the consent of the students, parents, and communities whose interests the schools are supposed to serve. Those who dissent risk being attacked as bigots and shamed into silence.

This must stop. If you are disturbed by these destructive developments, you are not alone. If you want Fairport schools to return to teaching our children what they need to grow and succeed, please join us. We are parents, grandparents, students, teachers, and taxpayers of Fairport that come from diverse backgrounds with one common goal in mind -- we want less politics in the classroom and more traditional values taught.