The RI House Education Committee will hear H5498 on Wednesday, March 22.

In 2019, the Rhode Island General Assembly granted authority to the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) to develop curricula for various subjects and mandate it to every school district in the state … removing authority from local school districts to determine what is taught to our children. 

RIDE Commissioner, Angelica Infante Green, and her staff have abused this authority to push an overtly-politicized agenda through multiple “centrally-planned” curricula standards. H5498 would repeal this 2019 law.

You can petition elected and education officials to repeal this authority by clicking here.

Over 250 petitions submitted … and counting; go to end of this post to view entire list. Check back regularly for updated comments and list.

Comments from petition signers are immediately below;

Parental authority needs to be respected. No institution has the right to usurp parental authority.

RIDE is a complete failure to its students and a disappointment to the taxpayers.

I reject CRT curriculum as the path forward for Rhode Island education. Stop spreading hate and division within our school systems and distracting from core educational needs.

The 2019 Riamondo legislation to give RIDE all the curricula decisions has to be the most dangerous and insidious pieces of legislation ever to come out of Capitol Hill. Give the education back to the cities and towns before an entire generation is lost.

The parents should be the ones that okay the classes for their kids.

I respectfully request that local cities and towns should be responsible for curricular decisions. The RI Education department in failing our children. The only focus for educators should be teaching fundamentals in Math, English, Science, and Civics/History. When interviews of College students show they can not name the First President of the USA, never mind the present one? Teach our children the skills they will need to compete in the 21 Century in a rapidly developing technological world.

REVERSE COURSE. SUPPORT HOUSE BILL H5498 AND SENATE BILL S01877 , LET LOCAL COMMITTEES AND PARENTS MAKE DECISIONS FOR THEIR OWN CHILDREN REGARDING THEIR EDUCATION, STOP FAILING OUR CHILDREN AND START TEACHING THEM, THEIR EDUCATION IS TO IMPORTANT , SOCIAL CAUSES AND SEX ED SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN THE HOME TEACH THEM TO READ AND WRITE, AND WHEN YOU DO WHICH YOUR FAILING AT, STOP TEARING FAMILIES APART .

I don’t agree with how things have been trending for many years and that needs to change. I mean people cannot even count back correct change. It does no good to have uneducated or undereducated societies.

Send back authority to local school districts where parents and community members have a say in their child’s education.

Please send Infante back to NY or China where she belongs. She hates children and she hates RI.

We need to go back to the basics and stop confusing and taking away the innocence of our children. You are not professionals in this field and the parents are the only ones who should address this with their children.

After a generation-plus if functionally illiterate and math-challenged graduates, school curricula need to return to the tasks at hand: reading, writing and arithmetic. The ‘social nuances’ will take care of themselves OUTSIDE of the classroom.

As a retired teacher for 32 years, curriculum decisions belong at the local level.

I am appalled with the direction the current education. Time to put vocational/industrial arts back and have them learn a trade. Time to have the students learn a TRUE home economic class that will ensure proper $$$ management to ensure proper credit.

RIDE is a complete failure to its students and a disappointment to the taxpayers.

Enough is enough. Raise the standards. Don’t lower the bar. Infante- Greene needs to move on, she never had the skills to do the job. Just another one of Gina’s lackeys. Catering to those who do not want to learn important lessons like Civics and history. It is an abomination!

Stop holding cities and towns hostage relative to school curriculum and funding – let the local districts decide the curricula that best suits their needs of their kids. Stop tying state aid to accepting RIDE’s curricula – this shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.

Reading Writing Arithmetic. Decided locally RIDE severely impacted Providence Schools NEGATIVELY. I KNOW FIRST HAND -I AM A RETIRED PROV TEACHER

This has to stop. School officials should have no authority to deal with any educating other than basic educational courses…..ie reading, writing history civics and arithmetic. Etc

Rhode Island School districts should have local authority to set educational policy

It is outrageously disgusting that the schools have Over stepped on our children. Prison is the only place for anyone who grooms a child. Indoctrination needs to stop now.

We, the parents, want our school choices and curricula to be totally in the hands of local parents, school boards and local elected officials. We disapprove of the RIDE standards and curricula being handed down to cities and towns in RI.

Please return curricula decisions to local school committees and local school officials and parents. We as TAXPAYERS and our children deserve much better than what RIDE has given our children and students of Rhode Island

We would love to send our children back to school but are being forced to homeschool due to current woke curriculum that are against our religion. Schools need to get back to the basics so every single American and Rhode Island don’t have to be in fear of certain indoctrination that goes against their freedom of religious beliefs

We would love to send our children back to school but are being forced to homeschool due to current woke curriculum that are against our religion. Schools need to get back to the basics so every single American and Rhode Island don’t have to be in fear of certain indoctrination that goes against their freedom of religious beliefs

Return the decision making surrounding curriculum to the individual communities and districts!!!

We parents want more access to curricula: to see what is being taught, how it is being taught, and to propose curricula that focus on academics. The best way for parents to be able to participate in the process is directly through the school and our local school committees, not petitioning a committee in Providence or through the state house.

Please send Infante back to NY or China where she belongs. She hates children and she hates RI.

The repeal of this law is crucial to the successful future of RI public education.

I totally agree with the pre-written text

This Woke ideology has gone way too far. Those that condone such acts as listed above should be closely monitored else they profane the system in its entirety.

I do not want my tax dollars going to exploit children, period. Enough is enough.

Return curricula control to local schools and parents, where it belongs.

Schools radical curriculum changes are affecting our children. These changes are totally against what most parents want their children to learn. The sexual content is appalling and not at all age appropriate.

I have seen first hand the inappropriately aged and presented health curriculum in my district. This needs to change.

Elected officials don’t listen anymore to their constituents. Instead they vote and make decisions on their beliefs and that’s not what they’re supposed to do. I hope they smarten up. Thanks you

THIS CENTRAL PLANNING IS MARXIST BY DESIGN . ONE SIZE FITS ALL IS NO WAY TO RUN THIS EDUCATION STANDARD IN RI . EACH TOWN SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO TEACH STUDENTS AS TO WHAT THEIR SCHOOL BOARD DECIDES

Education is a local decision- leave it that way. It’s time for the children to get back to basics. The classroom is no place for educators and/or administrators to impart their values. Moral education is the job of the parents.

Give cities & towns the right to govern their local schools. People choose to live in towns based on the varied educational, rural vs. city demographics, cultural, economic characteristics that they want for their families. One-size-fits-all does not protect the people’s right to choose.

I want education not indoctrination.

I am a retired Massachusetts teacher.

local control

I call on state lawmakers to support 2023 RI House bill H5498 and Senate bill S0187 that will REPEAL the enacted state law based on the 2019 Senate bill S0863 … and to return curricula decisions to local communities.

Angelica Infante Green should be fired!

The agenda across schools is unacceptable. Our children have more stress than ever on their plates. They don’t this agenda being pushed on them to complicate their minds even more. Their mental health needs to come first. Parents voices need to be heard. It’s unacceptable what they’re doing to our kids

Each parent needs to have say in his town to decide what is best not just some few persons no one can speak with . absolutely not

It is essential for parents to participate in their children’s education. The best way to enable that is to empower local school committees with the authority to shape the local curriculum. This puts decisions closest to the families impacted.

Time to rein in the RIDE and knock off this progressive nonsense!

I do not trust Commissioner Infante-Green she has an agenda that is very bad for the children and the State of Rhode Island ! How she she got this job is beyond me ! She needs to GO !

So many don’t really know what is being taught in our schools with our hard earned tax dollars. We don’t want an agenda pushed on our precious youth. Unacceptable!!!! House bill H5498 and Senate bill S0187 – to REPEAL that 2019 law, which would return curricula decisions to local school committees, local school officials, and local parents.

People “in charge” rarely have a clue as to what the people need. They have bandaid solutions that don’t actually help. They talk about what’s “important” like they understand what that means. Meanwhile its the people they are supposedly trying to “help” that become the victims of neglect or abuse, left to suffer for thier arrogance

Pass house bill H5498 and Senate bill S0187 to repeal the 2019 law

We simple don’t trust the “so called” experts who have shown time and again they can’t be trusted not to indoctrinate our children with questionable and inaccurate information as well as undermining parental authority.

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School curriculum should be history, reading, math and writing. Back to the basics and not this crt bull crap.

Since Commissioner Infante-Green assumed control, RIDE’s controversial policies have led to failing and falling student achievement across the state, all while per-pupil costs have soared. We need change.

It’s disappointing that, 50+ years ago, with no federal Dept. of Education and little state oversight, education was much, much better. Does this embarrass you at all, or is your career all about the money?

As school committee chair of. Ponaganset High School and Foster school department I can attest that local school districts need to address the needs of their students at a local level since they know what their students needs are . A blanket curriculum on a one size fits all aspect is not practical and only hindering our children’s education

Stop turning RI into California.

Get the porn out of our school libraries.

Big Brother thugs…

I think communities and parents should have more oversight over curticula

It’s about time we fight to take back our schools to many kids are struggling with this crazy curriculum.

I support decentralization of the school curriculum allowing local municipalities to instead decide what should be taught.

Just teach our children what they need how to read,write and arithmetic no woke nonsense

The indoctrination of our children, their exposure to Drag Queen Story Hours, CRT, the Common Core curriculum, the LGBTQ agenda, masks, and required vaccinations, and the retention of sexual predators among the faculties and staffs are but a few of the detrimental and forced policies perpetrated on our most vulnerable population. Sadly, the NEA and AFT are dictating policy to these cities and towns with their leftist, ‘woke’ agendas. It must end now!

Return control back to cities and towns!

RIDE needs to be accountable to our elected officials. Ceding that authority was a very big mistake. Take the power back. Do your job.

Petitioners to date by City & First Name:

Robin	Ashaway
polly	Ashaway
Jarrod	Barrington
Maria	Barrington
Julie	Barrington
Sharon	Barrington
Pamela	Barrington
morgan	barrington
Lisa	Barrington
Heather	Barrington
debra	barrington
Jeffrey	Barrington, ri
Crystal	Bradford
Joseph	Bradford, RI
Peter	Bristol
CASANDRA	BRISTOL
Brian	Bristol
Victoria	Burrillville
Jennifer	Burrillville
Christine	Burrillville
Donald	Burrillville
Alison	Burriville
Laura	Charlestown
John	Charlestown
Tiffany	Chepachet
Jeffery	Coventry
Magan	Coventry
Lori	Coventry
Thomas	Coventry
Sara	Coventry
Patricia	COventry
Jim	Coventry
Gregory	Coventry
Anne	Coventry
Anna	Cranston
Dianna	Cranston
Larry	Cranston
Thomas	Cranston
Richard	Cranston
Rachel	Cranston
Mike	Cranston
David	Cranston
Mike	Cranston
Michael	Cranston
Lawrence	Cranston
Debra	Cranston
Bonnita	Cranston
Robin	Cumberland
David	Cumberland
Andrea	Cumberland
Thomas	Cumberland
Jerome	Cumberland
Mary	Cumberland
Brittney	Cumberland
Beth	East Greenwich
Kristen	East Greenwich
Peter	East Greenwich
Catherine	East Greenwich
Carolyn	East Greenwich
Regina	East Greenwich
patricia	East Greenwich
Patricia	East Providence
Joshua	East Providence
Chuck	East Providence
charles	east providence
Ethan	Exeter
Shirley	Exeter
Michelle	Exeter
Isaac	Exeter
Adam	Foster
Elisha	Foster
Joshua	Foster
David	Foster
Shelley	Foster
Jo-Ann	FOSTER
RONALD	FOSTER
Phyllis	Foster
Dale	Foster
Marc	Glocester
Steven	Glocester
Amy	Glocester
Cheryl	Glocester
Richard	Glocester
Michael	Glocester
Ann	Glocester
THOMAS	HARRISVILLE
Shanley	Harrisville
Wendy J Bruce	Hope Valley
Lisa	Hope Valley
Alfred	Hope Valley
S	Hopkinton
Deborah	Hopkinton
Nicholas	Johnston
Susan	Lincoln
Paul	lincoln
Cynthia	Lincoln
Peg	Little Compton

Shannon	Middletown
David	Middletown
Don	N Kingstown
Amy	Narragansett
Angela	Narragansett
Roger	Narragansett
Daniel	Narragansett
Catherine	Narragansett
john	narragansett, ri
Kathryn	Newport
Lisa	North Kingstown
Joseph	North Kingstown
Kimberley	North Kingstown
James	North Kingstown
Heather	North Kingstown
Colleen	North Providence
Crystal	North Providence
Bethanie	North Smithfield
Sheila	North Smithfield
Leo	North Smithfield
Marcia	North Smithfield
Joyce	North Smithfield
Tom	North Smithfield
Stephen	North Smithfield
Joey	North Smithfield
Robert	North Smithfield
Anne Marie	North Smithfield
Mary	Noth Providence
Stephanie	Pawtucket
Stacey	Pawtucket
Cathy	Pawtucket
STEVEN	PAWTUCKET
Pamela	Portsmouth
Paula	Portsmouth
Sofia	Portsmouth
Adeline	Portsmouth
Lawrence	Portsmouth
Ted	Portsmouth
Larry	Portsmouth
Katlin	Portsmouth
Stacey	Providence
Paul	Providence
Svetlana	PROVIDENCE
Marietta	Richmond
Patricia	Richmond
Goldie	Richmond
Louise	Richmond
Kathryn	Richmond
John	Richmond
Guy	Richmond
George	Richmond
Jolene	Richmond
Clay	Richmond
Michelle	Richmond
Jessica	Riverside
Dale	Rumford
Nancy	Rumford
Fred	Rumford
Deborah	Saunderstown
Rebecca	Scituate
Desiree	Scituate
Brousseau	Scituate
Anthony Arias	Smithfield
Adam	Smithfield
Mark	Smithfield
Alana	Smithfield
Paulette	So. Kingstown
Heather	South Kingstown
Mary Alice	South Kingstown
Peter	south kingstown
Kenneth	South Kingstown
Rene	Tiverton
Karen	Tiverton
Allyn	Tiverton
Kara	W Greenwich
susan	wakefield
Elias	Wakefield
Christie	Wakefield
Jennifer	Warwick
Diane	Warwick
Ricardo	Warwick
Pat	Warwick
James	Warwick
Tanya	Warwick
Michael	Warwick
Christopher	Warwick
Pat	Warwick
Elena	Warwick
Stephanie	Warwick
Michael	Warwick
Tara	Warwick
Sharon	Warwick
Russell	Warwick
Raymond	Warwick
Patrick	Warwick
Jon	Warwick
WILLIAM	WARWICK
Mike	Warwick
John	Warwick
Robin	Warwick

Lisa	Warwick
Gina	Warwick
Raymond	Warwick
Justyne	Warwick
Christopher	Warwick
Bruce	Warwick
Edward	West Greenwich
Benjamin	West Greenwich
Rose	West Greenwich
Jared	West Greenwich
Catherine	West Greenwich
Clunton	West Greenwich
Lynn	West Greenwich
Paulette	West Kingston
Paulette	West Kingston
Joseph	West Warwick
Alan	West Warwick
Shannon	West Warwick loop
Tom	Westerly
Cynthia	Westerly
Kerri	Westerly
Margaret	Westerly
Joyce	Westerly
Rosalie	Westerly
Douglas	Westerly
Ruth	Westerly
Seth	Westerly
Dennis	Westerly
Jan	Westerly
Thomas	Westerly
Robert	Westerly
Lori	Westerly
Jo	Westerly
Jennifer	Westerly
Jacqueline	westerly
Joanne	Westerly
Eileen	Westerly
Joe	Westerly
Donna	Westerly
Maria	Westerly RI
Tina	Wood River Junction
Michelle	Woonsocket
Rachel	Woonsocket
Richard	Woonsocket
Karen	Wyoming
Emily	Wyoming
Wendy	Wyoming