WGSD Transparency

Publishing the political decision making by Webster Groves SD as it hemorrhages staff & students. Send your experiences: [email protected]

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Let’s start a 🧵for the past year of leadership under Superintendent John Simpson and Board of Ed President Jo Doll, also a Democrat #moleg #missouri House Rep.

February 2023

Enrollment decline means $1.7M in lost funding for WGSD, Superintendent says:

https://t.co/M1Tlam4YFM

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Fewer students = lower expenditures, right?

When incompetence & wokeness drive families away, budget should SHRINK.

Instead, the district sends surveys priming the public for a tax hike.

They blame lost state funding.

Real reason? Overspending on nonsense like DEI.

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Projected budget deficits for Webster Groves School District:

25-26: -$1.6M
26-27: -$4.4M
27-28: -$6M
28-29: -$8.5M

How do you think this might impact the taxpayer, and the outcomes for students?

Higher taxes, larger class sizes.

But continued spending on DEI!

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WGSD notifies the community of a data breach on the Instructure Canvas platform.

What happens when PanoramaEd data is leaked, containing student survey data and mental health analysis?

WGSD spent $23,610 on Panorama for 2025-2026 amidst an operating budget shortfall of millions

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Here’s the breakdown for each grade level:

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Breakdown of critical theory embedded into K-5 curriculum in Webster Groves School District.

Based on Learning For Justice Social Justice Standards from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Critical Race consultant LaGarrett King helped.

Thread of threads, one per grade level:

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Same organization that wrote the base social studies curriculum for WGSD.

For what purpose? To train social justice activists starting in kindergarten.

https://t.co/tIGv8Nmhz4

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Acting AG Blanche and FBI Director Patel announce a grand jury has INDICTED leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 COUNTS

This is MASSIVE!

SPLC said they were "fighting white supremacy," but they were "MANUFACTURING the extremism it purports to expose" by PAYING sources to "stoke racial hatred," per Acting AG Blanche

Best part? They've been charged in the Middle District of Alabama!

They're SCREWED! 🔥

SPLC has been hit with SIX counts of wirefraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

[Thomas More Society @ThomasMoreSoc]

🚨🚨 Kirkwood School District Admits Providing Inappropriate Material, Misleads Parents on Solution. Read: https://t.co/yiKNzrYQJV

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Fake news WKT:

“The letter links to examples of  ‘sexually explicit’ books allegedly available to students through the Sora app”

Allegedly? No, factually.

Their own article links to the Kirkwood SD website where anyone can see these books are 100% available to students.

[WebsterKirkwoodTimes @WKTimes]

A Chicago law firm is once again targeting the Kirkwood School District, this time to address the district’s implementation of Sora, a reading app for K-12 schools.

Read more: https://t.co/YT2m2a8BIZ

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Hixson Middle School Principal alerts families to check for frostbite after the “outdoor demonstration”.

An anti-ICE protest.

As with the high school protest, all students were supervised by staff.

More evidence that these are school-sanctioned activism events. @DeAngelisCorey

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Webster Groves, MO Mayor Laura Arnold ecstatically posing with high school students who skipped class to protest ICE at WG City Hall.

Plus a few other posts from Facebook where parents are SO PROUD!

One student’s text says that the Hixson Middle Principal is participating 🤔

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Students skipping school to protest ice

And teachers march alongside them in the name of “safety”

Is a political activism an appropriate use of taxpayer resources? @AGCHanaway @EDSecMcMahon @Eric_Schmitt @HawleyMO @RickBrattin @meaccoleman

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Students from Webster Groves High School just walked out to protest ICE…

With district staff tagging along to ‘supervise’ the event.

A politically-fueled, school-sanctioned field trip on taxpayer time?

The administrators who ok’d this should be fired immediately.

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Webster Groves, MO Mayor Laura Arnold ecstatically posing with high school students who skipped class to protest ICE at WG City Hall.

Plus a few other posts from Facebook where parents are SO PROUD!

One student’s text says that the Hixson Middle Principal is participating 🤔

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Look at the joy on Mayor Laura Arnold’s face.

Absolutely 🌟 BEAMING 🌟 at the 17-18 year old students who cut class to protest ICE.

Not one of them has seen an ICE Agent in Webster Groves.

Can you think of a more ironic display of the “white privileged” they seek to dismantle?

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The building inscription behind her, paying tribute to those who put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms, is just perfect.

Webster Groves, MO continues to serve as a truly exquisite example for being untethered from reality.

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Look at the joy on Mayor Laura Arnold’s face.

Absolutely 🌟 BEAMING 🌟 at the 17-18 year old students who cut class to protest ICE.

Not one of them has seen an ICE Agent in Webster Groves.

Can you think of a more ironic display of the “white privileged” they seek to dismantle?

[WebsterKirkwoodTimes @WKTimes]

Dozens of WGHS students marched to WG City Hall Friday morning in protest of ICE, where they were greeted by Mayor Laura Arnold. Kirkwood High School students also held an ICE protest walkout on Friday morning.

| photos by Melissa Wilkinson of the Webster-Kirkwood Times

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@benryanwriter Never forget when Webster Groves School District promoted an event including a presentation for getting children on this track to irreversible surgery.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

Exclusive: Video obtained from a concerned parent reveals Dr. Holly Hoefgen -- of the Washington University transgender clinic in St. Louis, which is currently under investigation -- lying to an audience of parents about the practices followed when medically transitioning kids.

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@EricLDaugh This butchery starts with Elementary school Principals like this one who openly celebrate social transitions, trans pronouns and names in their schools.

Reading stories in 2nd grade classrooms containing nonsense like a “girl brain in a boy body”. Illegal without family consent.

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April 2023

Transgender book read to second graders without family consent.

Shocker, district communication director says they don’t believe any law was broken 🤡:

https://t.co/779JScd10k

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Students from Webster Groves High School just walked out to protest ICE…

With district staff tagging along to ‘supervise’ the event.

A politically-fueled, school-sanctioned field trip on taxpayer time?

The administrators who ok’d this should be fired immediately.

[WGSD Transparency @WGTransparency]

The WGSD website is a disaster.

DEI curriculum hidden from families for a year, and now their “financial dashboard”, (performative transparency effort) is blanked out.

But we can see budget info from the 2014-2015 school year.

Incompetence, or deliberate obfuscation?

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They did WHAT??? 🤯

Next, you’ll tell me the curriculum was hidden from families for a year, up until they felt some pressure to repost it to the website last week! (it was)

Just an innocent mistake, according to them.

No one is EVER held accountable 🙄

[WGSD Transparency @WGTransparency]

@Moms4Liberty Exactly right, even in red states like #missouri

Here’s an example of kindergarten social studies curriculum based on SPLC learning standards:

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Kindergarten Social Studies in @WebsterGrovesSD:

“Throughout the course, students examine issues of social Justice and equity within an anti-bias framework.” #wgbuzz

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Principal of Webster Groves High School, Tony Gragnani, explaining how teachers are being trained to handle conflict differently based on skin color.

Goal is to drive down the numbers of referrals out of the classroom from 63% of all black students to below 50%.

@RhyenStaley

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🚨 $22K/yr DOWN THE DRAIN on Panorama surveys at WGSD High School—& the results are a JOKE! 😤

📉 Student response:
50% last year ➡️ CRASHED to 32% this fall

👩‍🏫 Staff: ONLY 35% bothered

Participation is OPTIONAL b/c of MENTAL HEALTH questions.

= SKEWED, USELESS data.

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🚨 SHOCKING reading scores in WGSD elementary schools—kids are FALLING BEHIND! 😱

Hudson:
✅ On/above grade: ONLY 12%
❌ Behind 1+ years: 70%

Clark:
✅ On/above grade: 34%
❌ Behind 1+ years: 42%

Parents, is THIS acceptable?! Our kids deserve BETTER.

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WGSD’s 10% enrollment decline - over 6 years.

Contrast with the flat graph presented by WGSD superintendent Jana Parker, omitting the Covid drop.

WGSD has still not rebounded like other #missouri districts.

Why not ask families the reasons they’ve left? 🤔