{"id":619373,"date":"2021-08-07T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=619373"},"modified":"2021-08-07T14:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:06:32","slug":"major-teachers-union-sues-rhode-island-mother-who-asked-questions-about-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-teachers-union-sues-rhode-island-mother-who-asked-questions-about-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Teacher\u2019s Union Sues Rhode Island Mother Who Asked Questions about Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajor-teachers-union-sues-rhode-island-mother-who-asked-questions-about-curriculum%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=619373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1280273369.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>America\u2019s largest public sector teachers\u2019 union has filed a lawsuit against a Rhode Island mom because she asked what her five-year-old daughter would be taught in kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>The mom, Nicole Solas, is receiving help from the Goldwater Institute as she navigates the legal system and fights back against the National Education Association (NEA), which has a budget of more than $300 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>In April, <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofliberty.blog\/2021\/08\/05\/nea-sues-mom-for-asking-questions-about-curriculum\/\">according to the Goldwater Institute<\/a>, Solas \u201cemailed the principal of her school in the South Kingstown School District asking for the kindergarten curriculum\u2014and whether it would include teaching children politically charged materials, including those influenced by Critical Race Theory and gender theory, holding them out to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school refused to answer and Solas was allegedly threatened with legal action for asking her questions. The school then sent her a bill for $74,000, claiming that\u2019s how much it cost to fulfill a public records request that the Goldwater Institute filed on Solas\u2019 behalf.<\/p>\n<p>More from Goldwater:<\/p>\n<p><em>If that were not enough, Nicole is now facing an unprecedented lawsuit by the NEA, a veritable goliath of a public sector union, representing over 2.3 million people nationwide.&nbsp; She is under attack with the costs and expenses associated with defending herself in a lawsuit for simply acting as a conscientious parent. This is not the first time that the NEA has shown that it\u2019s more concerned with politics and indoctrination than actually helping kids learn and succeed. At the 2019 Representative Assembly of the NEA, the union\u2019s delegates&nbsp;voted down&nbsp;a proposed resolution that called on the organization to \u201crededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America by putting a renewed emphasis on quality education\u201d and \u201cmake student learning the priority of the Association.\u201d Nicole, though, is determined to put her daughter\u2019s education first and refuses to be deterred by the union\u2019s politically motivated attack.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/nea-suit-against-rhode-island-mother-and-district\">reported<\/a> that the NEA argued in its lawsuit that Solas filed nearly 200 requests that were not subject to Rhode Island\u2019s public records law. The outlet reported that the NEA also filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against solas.<\/p>\n<p>Solas told Goldwater that the NEA had shown their true colors by bullying her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NEA is so determined to push its political agenda that they are willing to expose themselves in a court of law for who they really are: an association of bullies eager to challenge a stay-at-home mom who simply wanted to know what her daughter would be taught,\u201d she said. \u201cThis lawsuit won\u2019t deter me from asking questions, and I encourage all parents to do the same, so that they are empowered to make informed decisions regarding their children\u2019s education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Goldwater noted, \u201cRhode Island law does not permit private parties to seek to punish those who exercise their rights to public information,\u201d so it is unclear how they plan to succeed with their lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brazen and unprecedented act of intimidation by the NEA will not stand,\u201d said Jon Riches, Director of National Litigation at the Goldwater Institute and the attorney representing Solas. \u201cNicole Solas is entitled to know what her daughter\u2019s school is teaching in the classroom. She\u2019s entitled to ask questions. And she does not deserve to face legal action just for asking questions any concerned parent would ask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s largest public sector teachers\u2019 union has filed a lawsuit against a Rhode Island mom because she asked what her five-year-old daughter would be taught in kindergarten.The mom, Nicole Solas, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}