Indiana AG launches ‘Eyes on Education’ portal to empower parental rights in public education  

Indiana has launched an online “education portal” where objectionable content in schools can be reported by parents, students and teachers. 

The office of Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita announced the effort, dubbed “Eyes on Education,” last week.

“After our office consistently heard from students, parents, and teachers about objectionable curricula, policies, or programs affecting children, we launched the Eyes on Education portal,” the website reads.

The portal will allow concerned persons to submit materials they find objectionable from classrooms across the state.

Once submitted, Rokita’s office will investigate and publish its findings, according to the site.

The effort comes after Indiana passed a law last year prohibiting school officials from providing “any instruction to a student in prekindergarten through grade 3 on human sexuality.”

The law also mandates schools inform parents if their child requests to change gender identities.

“Our kids need to focus on fundamental educational building blocks, not ideology that divides kids from their parents and normal society,” Rokita said in a statement. “The media and schools themselves have continued to deny that this indoctrination is happening here in Indiana, so my office is launching Eyes on Education – a platform for students and parents to submit and view real examples of socialist indoctrination from classrooms across the state.”

The AG’s office is already reporting the following examples live on the portal:

• A gender support plan from Clark-Pleasant Community School, which directs faculty not to disclose any information that reveals a student’s gender identity to others, including to their parents or guardians.
• A pride flag featuring a Black Lives Matter symbol in a classroom in Kokomo (the school is obligated to allow any other political organization displays as well).
• A Carmel Clay survey that asks students their political beliefs, including their stance on abortion.
• A presentation from Martinsville High School instructing kids to “become emotionally independent of parents.”
• Race and gender-based college fairs and scholarships at Penn Harris Madison School Corporation.