About Tri-Town for
Protecting Children

Our Mission

At Tri-Town for Protecting Children, our mission is to preserve and protect the innocence of our children in our public schools and in our community.

 

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Our Initiative

We keep parents and community members in Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester informed about what's actually happening in our public schools — the materials being used, the programs being introduced, and the decisions being made — so families can advocate for their children and hold school committees and the school administration accountable.

Tri-Town for Protecting Children was formed because too many parents were finding out about cirriculum changes and policy decisions after the fact, not before.  We monitor school committee meetings, public records, and community reports, and share what we find directly with our community rather than relying on schools to volunteer it.  We don't have a seat at the table in theses decisions — which is exactly why an independant source of information matters.

 

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Our Goals

• Prohibit age-inappropriate sexual content from public school materials and programs

• Uphold parents' right to guide their own children's development and be the first to know about programs that affect them

• Eliminate the providing to children of age-inappropriate, sexually-explicit reading materials by the public schools

• Require schools to promote respect and dignity for others, without endorsing a particular view on sexual orientation or gender identity, and keep lessons on sex and gender grounded in biology

• Promote academic excellence as the top priority of our public schools, and support teachers who emphasize rigorous instruction and independent thinking

• Replace policies that sort children into identity groups with ones that treat the child as an individual