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"I just got served with a lawsuit from the teacher union NEARI. Throwing
down the gauntlet, are we? Game on.�

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The largest teachers� union in the country has filed a lawsuit against a
Rhode Island mom to block her numerous requests for public records
regarding her school district and Critical Race Theory, prompting her to
fire back, �I just got served with a lawsuit from the teacher union NEARI.
Throwing down the gauntlet, are we? Game on.�

Nicole Salas, who started her odyssey in challenging the school district
back in April, continued by writing, �Today the teacher union NEA filed
ANOTHER lawsuit against me �this time a Temporary Restraining Order and
Preliminary Injunction. Will teacher unions bullying moms be an everyday
thing now?�

The Goldwater Institute�s In Defense of Liberty blog explained:

In April, Nicole emailed the principal of her school in the South
Kingstown School District asking for the kindergarten curriculum�and
whether it would include teaching children politically charged materials,
including those influenced by Critical Race Theory and gender theory,
holding them out to be true. She immediately faced stonewalling from the
school, and even a threat of legal action for asking too many questions.
Ultimately, Nicole received a bill for $74,000 to fulfill a public records
request filed by the Goldwater Institute on her behalf in July.

Solas stated, �The NEA is so determined to push its political agenda that
they are willing to expose themselves in a court of law for who they
really are: an association of bullies eager to challenge a stay-at-home
mom who simply wanted to know what her daughter would be taught. This
lawsuit won�t deter me from asking questions, and I encourage all parents
to do the same, so that they are empowered to make informed decisions
regarding their children�s education.�

Attorney Jon Riches, Director of National Litigation at the Goldwater
Institute, who represents Solas, asserted, �This brazen and unprecedented
act of intimidation by the NEA will not stand. Nicole Solas is entitled to
know what her daughter�s school is teaching in the classroom. She�s
entitled to ask questions. And she does not deserve to face legal action
just for asking questions any concerned parent would ask.�

On Thursday, the NEA-RI (National Education Association Rhode Island)
filed for emergency injunctive relief, seeking a temporary restraining
order and preliminary injunction. William A Jacobson of Legal
Insurrection, who has been assiduously covering the Solas story and whose
series of articles illuminating the story can be found here, commented:

The entire premise of the purported emergency is that if the court doesn�t
act now, private records not subject to disclosure will be produced. On
what basis is that assertion made? Who told the unions that would happen?
Are the unions in touch with either the District, School Committee, or
their attorneys? If so, one would expect an affidavit either attesting to
a conversation or attaching emails. The Complaint is Verified, but the
evidence is lacking in the complaint.

Among the numerous requests made by Solas was Request No. 164, �which
calls for all emails between Linda Savastano (the former Superintendent)
and Robin Wildman for a period of two years,� Jacobson pointed out,
adding, �Who is Robin Wildman that they don�t want her emails with the
superintendent revealed? She�s a CRT activist who is at the center of a
complaint Solas filed with the RI Attorney General�s office.�

Wildman was the founder of Nonviolent Schools Rhode Island; she said in an
interview with The Collective:

I approached the superintendent with an idea to form a BIPOC group that
would look at policies and practices and make recommendations to create a
more inclusive, antiracist district.� I believe in working for justice,
and not equal rights. The difference is, in reality, while you may be
offered the same opportunities, you can easily be denied access due to
your race because the vast majority of those that control all of the
systems in our country are white, due to racism. Justice means breaking
down the oppressive systems that prevent BIPOC from accessing
opportunities in your community that white people have. � I feel that as a
white woman of privilege it is up to me to create change.

In early June, the Providence Journal reported that the South Kingstown
School Committee was considering suing Solas; School Committee Chairwoman
Emily Cummiskey smeared Solas, saying the suit could be a �potential
injunction� to block �a nationally-organized, racist group [attempting] to
create chaos and intimidate our district. �This is their MO nation-wide
and I anticipate other districts in our state will soon experience the
same unfortunate influx we have.�

Cummiskey did not name the group in her remarks, but later admitted it was
Parents Defending Education.