Julianna JerueProsper, TX, United States
May 13, 2025

Hello, this is Julianna (the one who started the petition), and I just have a few things to cover really quickly that I feel I need to mention to current and potential signers:

1) Thank you so much for the support thus far! Hitting 100 signatures in less than three days was definitely not what I was expecting, but it's a welcomed surprise nonetheless! Just know, whether you saw this on your own and signed or if somebody else shared it to you, you're making a difference. The unfortunate thing in our society is that justice isn't always instant, and a majority of the time it takes more than one complaint to shake the foundation. By signing, you're acting as one of these voices. Simply putting your name here is in of itself a significant step in achieving what we hope to achieve here. Anybody living in the Prosper area or attending a school in the PISD district helps even more so--you're showing the officials that this isn't a floating issue. That people in the area are genuinely affected. That is more commendable than you know; what's an idle signing to you is a movement in the making. Thank you all so much!!

2) Upon making this petition, a few questions and arguments have been made, and I would just like to clear some of it up. I have heard that "it was already on the news, how is that being hidden?", and to that I pose a question: is a secondary source justice? We're taught in middle school that primary resources are best to use in history class, and it is the same in this case. The news taking two minutes out of a 24-hour program to speak on this lawsuit instead of ANY of the officials involved speaking on it is not justice in any form. Until somebody is held accountable, there is no reason to be compliant with the ONE appearance it had on the news. Dr Ferguson and Hamrick still have yet to speak on it, nor do any of the school board officials, and that is the problem here. That they're covering it up, not that the news isn't speaking on it.

3) I would like to establish this fact, in which I failed to incorporate into the petition description itself. Yes, there are laws that prohibit commenting on cases for the safety of the minors involved. In the case itself, the names of the two minors were hidden (Doe v Ferguson--the children were named Jane Doe 1 and 2). I am not asking the school board to give a Spark Notes summary of the case, but whether I am asking for these officials, superintendent or school board member, to hold themselves accountable and speak on the case in any way. The only way people have heard of this case have been via news sources or social media posts, and it is paramount in situations impactful as this that the school itself speaks on it. Their silence may have started to keep the district clean, but it dirties their reputation in the process. Their silence is disgusting, and the fact that when I initially sent out this petition it was the first time many people--attending Prosper schools, even--heard about this three YEAR long case is sickening to me because people in the area should be aware. 

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