The Administrative Targeting of K12 Students and Parents.
How school districts blackmail, intimidate, and deflect blame from the guilty to the innocent.
In the continuation of this story, from the first article titled; Using A.I. Against K12 School Officials: How to rapidly learn policy and the law in order to hold the guilty accountable; and the second and most recent article titled; Google Workspace in K12 Schools: Talawanda City Schools’ misuse of private information and the cover-up that followed.; I’m now going to dive-in even more specifically, as to what Talawanda City Schools in Oxford, Ohio actually did as time passed regarding their completely open system of Google Workspace and Google Calendar.
For the record, as many past years can reveal (even in the mainstream media since 2020), it can be common practice for unprofessional school districts to single-out innocent students and parents in an attempt to intimidate them with empty threats. They also do so in an effort to send a message to the other onlookers—that under no circumstances should they ever catch school-board members, school administrations or teachers not doing their jobs, violating policy or breaking the law.
As many are aware, this tactic or behavior is commonly referred to as psychological projection, scapegoating or blame-shifting. It occurs when a guilty party (individual or group) deflects responsibility for their actions by falsely accusing an innocent person or group of people, while attempting to divert attention and avoid accountability for their own wrongdoing. This approach is commonplace within Human Resource Departments in all lines of work. I just so happens, that American K12 schools not only do it with regularity as it’s practically their policy, but they’re incredibly bad at it and they reveal themselves in the process as being the truly guilty ones.
If someone reads the above, and says to themselves “That’s not true, you’re to blame!” I would encourage them to then understand the definitions of mutually exclusive situations or contradictory claims. For example, when two opposing parties hold conflicting views on the same issue, their positions cannot both be true simultaneously due to the law of non-contradiction. One or both must be incorrect, as the truth cannot accommodate opposite and non-cohesive assertions.
Another defective tact, when shifting blame, may also be considered “false equivalency.” False equivalency is a logical fallacy where two things are presented as being equal or comparable in significance, impact, or moral weight, despite clear differences in their nature, scale, or context. It often misleads by equating minor or unrelated issues with major ones, thereby obscuring the truth. For example, comparing a minor traffic violation to a serious crime like robbery, suggesting they are equally as bad.
The opposite of false equivalency is called; accurate differentiation or proportional comparison. This involves recognizing and correctly distinguishing the true differences in the significance, impact, or moral weight between two or more situations, events, or actions—rather than wrongly equating them as similar, despite their clear differences. An example, as in this case below, would be accurately recognizing that a school district’s policy is to always check for technological vulnerabilities, as opposed to that same school district failing to do so, denying responsibility, and then falsifying documents while attempting to target innocent parents and students who found the vulnerability in the first place, while also attempting to frame a school-board member for alleged wrong-doing, when in fact, said individual is actually doing their job based on written policy and legal responsibilities.
In the posts below, you will hear from one of these Talawanda City School District parents who was targeted, as was her son who is a senior in high school set to formally graduate this May, in 2025. However, other parents and their children were targeted as well. They were singled-out because of their political differences with the school board, but also due to figuring out that the district’s own Google Calendar system was wide open for anyone to see who possessed a district email address.
The names and email addresses within the Surfire Cyber document apparently showed some of those who had accessed these calendars to see if in fact the system was open. After all, how will you know that there’s a vulnerability in your shared technological systems if you don’t look?
This mother’s son just so happens to be done with all of his classes within the school district in order to graduate; but, has yet to formally graduate until this May of 2025. Her posts are typed out here, including her screen shots to prove that these post’s were her’s and her’s alone:
4/13/25:
“Suzy McCall Stein:
As most of you are know, back in December we were made aware of the issue with Talawanda School District's calendars being open. What the district did was very much illegal and highly unethical, as well as their actions since then. We even received a letter proving that we were victims. The defense of their actions is both despicable and downright insanity.
What many of you do NOT seem to comprehend is that they have not been upfront and forthcoming with anybody. It is absurd how many times this weekend alone I have heard from people that they aren't trying to punish kids og I guess they don't know the people they're defending as well as they think they do. So, since they have resorted to extortion (which is very much illegal in the state of Ohio by the way) and wanted to target 3 VICTIMS of the 145 non-staff users, I'll go ahead and just publish the real truth for them. This is going to be a nightmare for the district in the end and it's not just going to go away like they thought it was going to. Happy Sunday!
Below is the letter that Suzy McCall Stein wrote to all school-board members and involved parties:
To: Talawanda School District and Edward Theroux, TSD Superintendent Scott Davie, THS Principal; Jason Stuckey, Attorney, Bricker Graydon Rebecca Howard, TSD Bard Member Pat Meade, TSD Board Member Chris Otto, TSD Board Member Matt Wyatt, TSD Board Member Dawn King, TSD Board Member
131 West Chestnut Street Oxford, Ohio 45056
“This letter is being written to address the google calendar incident and the relationship to my child, Matthew Schuster. I will be leaving this in one paragraph format so it cannot be altered. We met with Scott Davie on 4/9/25 to discuss access of google calendars from my sons' account. We were informed that they feel him allowing me to see his chromebook is a violation of the acceptable use policy (I highly disagree, being that as a parent we should ALWAYS be monitoring ANY devices our children are using for safety). We were told that since our child has finished his classes, if I do not admit to looking at the calendars, then they will take away his right to go to prom or walk for graduation. So, YES, I was, in fact the one who viewed the google calendars. There was absolutely no warning box that popped up saying you shouldn't be here. I did not have to enter any passwords. I did not get on anyone else's computer. According to the acceptable use policy, nothing considered obscene, pornographic, or unsuitable for children was viewed. Nobody was on the internet, we were in the calendar app, and IF there was anything in there that the district deemed unsafe for minor children, then why was it put out there by the district themselves and left open and accessible for the free world? That is not a student violation code of conduct, that is an acceptable use code of conduct violation for EVERY single staff member that both put confidential information out there and had their calendars open to the public. Yet, only three students were targeted. I was personally given a tip they were open and my kids' information was most likely out there and I didn't believe that the district would be that negligent in protecting confidential private information. I was shocked to not only immediately find that the tip I was given was accurate, but to also be able to find both of my boys' 504 plans out there. The paper I was given states suspension like the other 2 students they targeted, I will attach that, as well as the email where I clarified our conversation with Mr. Davie. We are the VICTIMS of not only this negligence on the school's part, but at no point did we consent to sharing our children's private confidential documents with Google (a separate company), and then they resorted to extortion of our children to make us confess to an issue that they created under duress. I emailed Mr. Theroux on 1/18/25 asking for information and got a very vague response stating that he "sent a letter in December to our families asking for any information..." of which I never received because they had removed me from all communications, I then received a letter on 1/31/25 to inform me that we are, in fact, VICTIMS to their negligence and ours was online as well. On 2/13/25, for those who are unaware, I emailed Mr. Theroux again after he was contacted by a member of the community because she has no children attending the district any longer, yet she had a conflict in her personal phone calendar for one of these meetings that she should not have been able to see, that supposedly they had fixed.
I did not get an answer from him as to whether they are fixed now. People have put things in their own phone calendars recently (as in the last couple weeks) that have went to their child's school calendar, so how they are locked now is beyond me, if that is able to happen. So while board members sat up on that stage at the meeting on 3/26/25 talking about how they don't agree with harming or going after kids, that is precisely what they chose to de, all while some of them have been busy telling folks all weekend that kids being punished is a lie. For those who are unaware, Extortion is illegal in the State of Ohio under revised code 2905.11 (which is a felony of the 3" degree).
This is just one of the illegalities TSD has committed, I will now go into some of the rest of the illegalities with just this incident alone and why we will be filing several codes of conduct, as well as reporting Mr. Stuckey and his firm to the State Bar Association, as he has violated every code of conduct and this is both non maleficence to citizens and students, as well as a huge breach of trust with taxpayer money and highly unethical. Both the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (USC 6501-6505 16 CFR Part 312) and The Privacy Rule (45 CFR Part 160, A and E, Part 164) have been violated. I'm now going to discuss the Surefire Cyber report that Mr. Theroux ordered. If you requested it. there are 3 parts. I have no problem sharing two of those with anyone who would like to see them. The third one however. I will not share as it was not only a huge violation of FERPA, but they shared about eleven IP addresses for my home.
Yes, once again they shared private protected information for a student's home, which was actually illegal in this instance (Senate Bill 29, Section 3319.32, A through C). We have a router, modem, and our cell phones, I don't even have a personal computer or printer. The kids and I do not have VPNs on our phones. My husband's highly confidential phone and work computer do though, so we have notified their HR department of the breach and distribution (Ohio Revised Code 1333.61 through 1333.69 prohibits this illegal breach of their data). On page one of the report done by TSD for their "Initial Investigation" you …. so it would be very easy to have unauthorized access to any of the student accounts. Moving on to the Surefire report, on page 3 it states there were "a total of 55 unique google drive documents attached to staff calendar events were accessed by users". That is a whole lot of documents that TSD should have gotten consent to share with Google. I asked Mr. Davie to have the consent form that I signed ready for me when I met with him. He tried to tell me it was the acceptable use policy of which I firmly stood my ground and said it absolutely was not and did not give them consent to share private confidential documents with another company. He informed me during our meeting that the IT department said TSD has a contract with Google that allows them to share the information. Absolutely not. If any school district in the state of Ohio has a contract with ANY technology company where they can access our student's data, they are required to provide parents and students with a direct form of written communication no later than 8/1 of each year stating what they have access to and who we can contact within the district if we have questions (Senate Bill 29, Chapter 3319.25 of the revised code, part G). I have never received anything for Google, Final Forms, or Progessbook. It also very clearly states, among other things, that a contract between a technology provider and school district shall comply with Chapter 1347 of the revised code and would ensure appropriate security safeguards, restriction of unauthorized access, and a requirement that employees/contractors may be authorized access only as necessary for official duties (Senate Bill 29, Chapter 3319.326, A through E). It must also provide provisions for protection of any document containing anything related to a medical condition/diagnosis, such as a 504/IEP, in a student's educational record (Senate Bill 29, Chapter 3319.25).
On page 5 of the Surefire report under Methodology, they state that they "developed a program to extract all calendar events owned by Talawanda staff members that included attachments".
Again, I did not give consent to share any of my, nor my children's private protected data with this outside company, and the school definitely did not give parents notice within 72 hours that they shared this private information with that company, along with their legal reasoning (Senate Bill 29, Chapter 3319.32, A through C again). On page seven of this report, you will see a table where they show 3,511 logs of people accessing the calendars, 145 of those being non-staff which were provided to the district for review. If you backtrack to page six, and read the Investigative Findings, Surefire states "Client provided a filtered subset of the Group 2 access list" and "deemed unauthorized by client", as well as "draftIEP_10.7.24.pdf was accessed by seven unique users and draftIE_10.7.24.pdf was accessed by three unique users." Surefire makes sure that they point out that we were targeted by the client. We already knew this based on the 3/26/25 board meeting where Ms. Howard announced that there were only three student accounts, which as you can clearly see in the report is both highly inaccurate and a civil/equal rights issue (a violation of the 14th Amendment). She didn't bother to mention that staff policies 8351, 8320.01, 7530.02, or 8305 were violated and what they planned to do about that though. Along with everything else that I have stated in this letter, it is important to remember that children on 504s/TEPs do have actual disabilities and are therefore protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act as well and the Equal Protection Clause can be invoked! The state board of education can suspend, revoke, or limit any license that has been issued to any person engaging in an immoral act, incompetence, negligence, or conduct that is unbecoming to the person's position, failure to comply with sections of revised codes (those are 3314.40, 3319.313, 3326.24, 3328.19, 5126.253, or
5502.262), "purposely using or intentionally releasing information that is confidential under state or federal law concerning a student or student's family members for purposes other than student instruction" (Senate Bill 29, Chapter 3319.31,B). I cannot even begin to tell you how many people have informed me that I was in a meeting regarding this at the high school with my student, along with the other parents. How do you suppose that information got out when disciplinary procedures are supposed to be private and confidential? These are all HUGE code of conduct violations that have been allowed to be committed by staff, at the direction of the superintendent.
The superintendent reports directly to the school board, therefore anyone who has and continues to promote these illegal activities, including the attorney who should ethically be informing them of the laws that they are breaking and not abiding by (the state bar association has pretty much the same code of conduct as the state board of education), have very much opened themselves up to a class action lawsuit regarding this incident. Talawanda School District is NOT the victim here they are claiming to be, what they are doing is targeting, bullying, and extorting families to try to cover up their mistakes. The only criminal case here involved is against the district itself. The threats, harassment, and bullying by the district ends here.”
Parent Suzy McCall Stein, then wrote to the Talawanda High School Principal Scott Davie, and told him the following:
Good Morning Scott.
I thought I would just reach out to you directly this morning with my concerns. I told you when I was in there on Wednesday that y'all have some thin walls and that has clearly been proven once again. So, that being said, I would love to know how it is that everyone outside of the school walls seems to know that both Ivan and myself, along with our children, were brought in for questioning regarding this matter? It's my understanding that disciplinary matters are supposed to be kept private, same as 504s/lEPs?
And on the letter of intent that you gave us, I sent it over to my attorney and he said it does not state what you advised as far as keeping him from attending prom or being able to walk for graduation, if I do not send you something in writing to say that it was me that looked at the files. Can you please confirm that for me here.
Thank you!
Suzy Stein
Talawanda High School Principal Scott Davie replied and stated:
Good morning, Suzy,
The discipline information was held internally. This screenshot shows you that it hasn't been emailed or shared with anyone. The intent to suspend that I printed and signed for you is in my office. Dr.
Theroux was briefed and my assistants and SRO are aware of our meeting.
Click here to view the report and consequence change log.
Regarding prom and/or graduation: Those items were shared as possible outcomes only. As discussed, if a letter stating what you shared verbally in our meeting, that it was you who used Matthew's account to access six other students' IEPs and a SAP Advocate Agenda between 12/15/24 - 12/17/24, is received by 3 PM on Monday, April 14, then we would cancel the discipline currently assigned for Matthew. Should that letter, which Dr. Theroux and our legal team will approve, is not received by Monday, we would proceed with a manifestation determination meeting.
Pending the outcome of that meeting, an expulsion hearing would be held. The potential outcome of that, could include restricting Matt's participation in Prom and/or the Graduation Ceremony.
Should you have any additional questions or need more clarification, please let me know.
Thank you,
Scott Davie
Principal
Parent Suzy McCall Stein responded and stated:
Suzy Schuster @ Apr 11
I appreciate the response and that it wasn't you personally that shared the information.
Principal Scott Davie responded and stated:
TALAWANDA Davie, Scott 2 days ago to me v
Of course, no problem.
Please know that the only thing I need is the written statement about your accessing Google Calendar accounts to view the lEPs and SAP Agenda, which can simply be that short. If I receive that, I'll be able to cancel everything out in regard to Matthew.
If the letter includes any additional information, not related to that, it would need to be passed on to another level.
I hope that helps clarify as well. Have a great weekend if I don't hear from you. I hope the appointments went well.
Thanks,
Mr. Scott Davie Principal, Talawanda High School 513.273.3214 #THSFamily #Educate&Prepare
Below is the letter that was given to Suzy McCall Stein by the Principal of Talawanda High School, Scott Davie. This letter was also replicated and allegedly given to at least two other parents regarding their own children. Not only in this case does the letter threaten to keep Suzy McCall Stein’s child from attending any school events, but it’s a letter designed to have the parent accept blame for being the one who looked at the Google Calendar to see if the system was open, which, again, is not against any law nor district policy.
Suzy McCall Stein then sent an email to the Superintendent Edward Theroux and the rest of the board members stating:
Suzy's post to Theroux, Rebecca... v (board members)
I received this email from you, followed up by a certified letter, dated 1/31/25 regarding the data security. In it, you stated you "moved quickly to initiate a response" and "to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future". It further later states that the district "values the security of the personal data that we maintain, and understands the frustration, concern, and inconvenience that this incident may have caused."
Do you though? Here's my problem. I emailed with questions and concerns, I got a minimal response with absolutely no answers. My frustration and concern is that this is a large enough community that people absolutely do talk. So when we find out that the calendars are STILL open, almost two months later and it is brought to your attention, you STILL won't inform the community?? But the president of the board just wants to threaten the community member not to share the proof that she brought to you? Why is the community having to help you do your job??? Shame on you! Seriously. People deserve to know that their information was still available to be seen and why it wasn't fixed yet.
I would like to file a formal complaint on this. When I received this letter, I assumed it was fixed and taken care of and both my children's, as well as my own, personal private information was secure. Clearly that is not the case. What are my next steps for this?
Suzy Stein
Superintendent Edward Theroux responded and stated:
Thank you for your email. I understand you have concerns about information being shared. As stated in my January 20th email to you, please let me know if you know of anyone including yourself have any information, knowledge, screenshots, or evidence of any information being shared.
We still do not have the final report completed by the cyber security firm. We are told it is coming soon.
We continue to work with the cyber security firm. We also have attorneys assigned to work on this case as well. We are working with them as well.
We immediately went to work as stated in the letter sent to you right after the Board meeting. We also sent a letter/notification the next day (Friday). A cyber security firm was hired to investigate and give us information. I know they are and have been working on this issue. More will come when we know.
You stated you wanted to make a complaint. You have included ESEA in this email. I am not sure if they can assist you or not. You also included the Board and Board President. I believe they may be able to assist you as well. This might be the first step. You may also contact ODE/DEW professional conduct as well.
Again, I am asking you if you have any knowledge, information, screenshots, or evidence regarding your own child or other children or staff. I also asked this in my January 20th email to you. It is important for us to have Again, I am asking you if you have any knowledge, information, screenshots, or evidence regarding your own child or other children or staff. I also asked this in my January 20th email to you. It is important for us to have this information.
The Board members may respond as well.
I understand you have concerns for your child's information. I understand you feel there is a limited response. You also would like to file a complaint. I also want to make sure any information shared with you and everyone is accurate.
In Education,
Dr. Edward Theroux, Ed. D.
Educating and Preparing Students for Life
Superintendent Edward Theroux responded again, and stated:
Theroux, Edward Jan 31
Good afternoon. Please see the attachment. This is a notice of student access. The investigation is ongoing.
We do not have any other information beyond what is stated in the letter at this time. We have a cybersecurity team that is still investigating. If there is additional information when this is completed, we will reach back out to you.
We have also mailed this letter via USPS. It will require a signature.
Thank you for your understanding and patience during this time/investigation.
Have a great weekend.
In Education,
Dr. Edward Theroux, Ed.D.
Educating and Preparing Students for Life
The attached letter sent by Superintendent Edward Theroux stated:
1/31/2025
Via First-Class Mail
Notice of Data Security Incident
Dear Parent or Guardian of Matthew Schuster (Suzy Stein):
Talawanda City School District takes the confidentiality of our students' data very seriously, and we work very hard to maintain the confidentiality of that data. We are writing to notify you of a data security incident that exposed your child's information, and we want to provide you with information about the incident and our response.
What Happened and What Information Was Involved:
On or around December 19, 2024 during public participation in the December Board meeting, a community member stated Google calendar information had been shared. Talawanda City School District then discovered a social media post that included information that appeared to be taken from staff calendars. Further investigation revealed that individuals) within the Talawanda community used Talawanda account(s) to view staff calendar invites and attachments. These documents may have included your student's name, individual education plan ("IEP"), and/or Ohio student number from the Statewide Student Identifier system ("SSID"). Please note that your student's Social Security Number and financial account information were not involved in this incident. Upon discovering the incident, Talawanda City School District immediately launched an investigation and has gathered as much information surrounding this incident as possible to ensure that it does not happen again. We electronically viewed and monitored your child's information to conduct this investigation.
What We Are Doing:
Upon discovering this incident, we moved quickly to initiate a response, which included conducting an investigation and a root cause analysis to understand how the incident happened and to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. We also notified other school districts to alert them of the incident and related software vulnerably and mitigation n prevent similar unauthorized access to calendar invites.
Importantly, the investigation did not identify specific activity around your child's infor.. and Talawanda City School District is not aware of any fraud or identity theft as a result of this incident. As of this wri
Talawanda City School District has not received any Importantly, the investigation did not identify specific activity around your child's infor.. and Talawanda City School District is not aware of any fraud or identity theft as a result of this incident School District has not received any reports your student's Social Security Number and financial account information were not involved in this incident. Upon discovering the incident, Talawanda City School District immediately launched an investigation and has gathered as much information surrounding this incident as possible to ensure that it does not happen again. We electronically viewed and monitored your child's information to conduct this investigation.
What We Are Doing:
Upon discovering this incident, we moved quickly to initiate a response, which included conducting an investigation and a root cause analysis to understand how the incident happened and to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. We also notified other school
districts to alert them of the incident and related software vulnerably and mitigation methods to prevent similar unauthorized access to calendar invites.
Importantly, the investigation did not identify specific activity around your child's information, and Talawanda City School District is not aware of any fraud or identity theft as a result of this incident. As of this writing, Talawanda City School District has not received any reports of related identity theft or misuse of any protected information since the date of the incident (December 19, 2024, to present).
Please accept my sincere apologies for what happened. If you have any questions about this matter or would like to discuss any other privacy concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at therouxe@talawanda.org or 513.273.3106.
Talawanda City School District values the security of the personal data that we maintain, and understands the frustration, concern, and inconvenience that this incident may have caused.
In Education,
Dr. Edward Theroux
Talawanda City School District Superintendent
Ce: Student File
I fully understand that this is exhausting, but hopefully you can see what is happening here. You clearly have a school district that is deflecting blame to parents, students and the thin-air itself, in an attempt to escape any personal responsibility. They are claiming that this issue is not theirs, that there may have been a breech, yet there never was as even the Surfire Cyber Report confirmed, and the Google Calendar remained open this entire time.
Then, back in January, Suzy Stein sent the following email again to the Superintendent Edward Theroux and all of the board members Matt Wyatt, Pat Meade, Rebecca Howard and Chris Otto, and Dawn King stating:
to Rebecca, Theroux...v
I would like to address an issue that came to my attention recently before Christmas break. It is my understanding that highly confidential information was/is available for anyone with a TSD email to view. That being said, it was also brought to my attention that both of my children's confidentiality, as well as my own, was violated as well.
There is no part of this that is okay. Even worse, it is now 1/16/25, and as I stated I was made aware of this before Christmas break and I've yet to receive any communication from TSD at all about it! Nothing! Not a single thing. The last communication that I had received from TSD was on 12/13/24 until this week. I called this past Wednesday and informed the guidance office. I find this to be completely unprofessional.
I would like to know what my next steps are as a parent? I would like to know what your next steps are as a district?
I would like to know if this is resolved? Is mine, or my children's, information still available for anyone with a TSD email to see? How was this able to happen in the first place, as this should have very much been legally protected information? I would also like to know why I was never notified that our information was compromised?
I watched the last board meeting to see what was said in regards to this to try to get information, since I haven't received any other communication. What I saw only further disappointed me.
received any other communication. What I saw only further disappointed me.
Suzy Stein
Only Dawn King and Edward Theroux responded, each and separately, by stating:
Hi Ms. Schuster,
I wish that I had any information that I could share with you, but unfortunately I do not. Nothing has really been shared with me either and I am very frustrated about the situation as well. Hopefully answers come soon for both of us.
Dawn King
Ed Theroux stated:
Theroux, Edward Jan 20 to me, Rebecca, Daw...
We have no information to share at this time. An investigation led by an outside team is being completed.
Once done the results will be provided to the Board.
If you know of people including yourself that had information shared, please provide that information to me. I sent a letter in December to our families asking for any information that was shared to be brought to the district office. You may do that or send it to me electronically.
Let’s review.
Here is what these exchanges clearly show:
Talawanda City Schools in Oxford, Ohio had and has an OPEN Google Calendar system within Google Workspace.
Parents found this out.
Parents brought this concern to School Board Member Dawn King.
The other Talawanda School Board members were unaware of this, dating back to the inception of the adoption of Google Workspace, including the Superintendent.
The Superintendent, in collaboration with building administrators, selected at least three students to target, along with their parents for accessing an open Google Calendar system that they either figure out was open, or that they verified that it was in fact open, which is within their rights to do so, as it pertains directly to any information that may exist regarding their own children.
The school district purposefully sought to NOT target other parents or students (for their own specified reasons), as clearly shown in the appendices of the Surfire Cyber report, which shows that either the names of other parents were redacted and not personally targeted, or the other names were purposefully left off of the report. In fact, the chart below from Surfire Cyber itself, shows that there were far more people who accessed the calendar than just three students (and or parents) within the district:
These exchanges on the emails above, also show that a high school principal (Scott Davie) is simply a hatchet-man and following orders for the superintendent Ed Theroux, while threatening to remove access to school events for students, but will only allow these students to return to school or attend school-related events if their parents sign a document stating that they were the ones who accessed the Google Calendar with their child’s email address, and that it wasn’t their child (blackmail). Whether a child or a parent accessed the OPEN Google Calendar to check for a vulnerability, is irrelevant. Every parent, student and staff member of the district had the responsibility to check and verify a publicized vulnerability.
The email exchanges above also show that the only board member to reach out to a concerned parent was Dawn King. The Superintendent responded to Suzy Stein, as did the high school principal, but all other school-board members believe that it is not their job to contact parents or members of the community, but rather to forward emails to the superintendent directly and have only him respond back.
As stated in the previous articles, the cover-up is always worse than the crime.
In the next installment of this series, I will show you the most recent Talawanda City School Board meeting in Oxford, Ohio that took place on April 17, 2025.
It’s within this board meeting where you will see firsthand the live in-action, on-the-record definitions of; psychological projection, scapegoating, blame-shifting, mutually exclusive situations, contradictory claims, false equivalency, accurate differentiation and proportional comparison.
After all, those who scream the loudest have the most to hide.
BIO: Dr. Sean M. Brooks is the host of the podcast American Education FM and the author of several books including; The Unmasking of American Schools: The Sanctioned Abuse of Americas Teachers and Students. He’s also on Gab, Truth, X, Bitchute, Rumble and everywhere audio podcasts can be heard.