Parents Have a Right to Know
Support Transparency Between Schools and Families
In May 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2616, the Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act. Among other provisions, the bill would require parental consent before schools make official changes related to a student's name, pronouns, gender markers, or certain sex-based accommodations.

Regardless of political party, most Americans agree on one simple principle: parents are responsible for raising their children.

Parents are expected to make decisions regarding their children's health, education, safety, and well-being. Schools play an important role in a child's development, but they should not be making significant decisions about a child's identity or maintaining records that differ from information shared with parents.

This is not about politics. It is not about hate. It is not about denying anyone respect or dignity.

It is about honesty, transparency, and ensuring that parents remain informed and involved in important matters affecting their children.

Schools routinely notify parents about academic concerns, disciplinary issues, medical matters, and behavioral problems because parents are recognized as the primary caregivers and decision-makers in a child's life. Questions involving a child's identity and school records should be treated with the same level of openness and parental involvement.

A healthy relationship between schools and families is built on trust. When schools intentionally withhold significant information from parents, that trust is damaged. Parents cannot effectively support their children if they are excluded from important conversations that may affect a child's emotional, social, or educational development.

Massachusetts has always valued strong families, engaged communities, and parental involvement in education. We believe parents should be partners in their children's lives—not spectators.

We call upon our elected officials in Massachusetts to support policies that strengthen transparency between schools and families and to oppose efforts that allow schools to keep significant information about a child from that child's parents.

Parents matter.

Families matter.

And parents have a right to know.

If you believe parents should be informed and involved in major decisions affecting their children, please sign this petition and share it with others who support transparency, accountability, and parental rights in education.

Together, we can send a clear message: Parents deserve a seat at the table when it comes to their children.