Newly elected IPS school board member Gayle Cosby was recently quoted saying, “I think it means a lot to have the voice of someone who is not backed by special interest groups,” claiming to be free from such influence.

Yet, Cosby accepted a $25,000 donation from the Indiana PAC for Education, a special interest group affiliated with the Indiana teachers union.

Ironically, she posted another blog in September, that includes the Cambridge definition of special interest groups—defined as “a group of people who have particular demands and who try to influence political decisions involving them.”

We’re not sure if Gayle thinks the teachers union gave her $25,000 out of the goodness of their heart, but we’re pretty sure they will have some very specific demands of the incoming school board.

We don’t know about you, but we’re looking forward to four years of lectures from Gayle Cosby about how virtuous and righteous her ideas and leadership are.

After all, she’s never railed against the very type of schools that she sent her own son to…

While we are withholding her name, we can report that an administrator in Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) has taken her child out of Broad Ripple Middle School and moved the middle schooler out of IPS entirely, choosing instead to send the student to a middle school in Washington Township.

What is going on in IPS Superintendent Aleesia Johnson’s administration when her own staff are sending their kids to other school districts?

Parent anger has been rising with growing safety issues across IPS, including at the recently re-opened Broad Ripple Middle School, where fights continue to breakout regularly, leaving students fearful for their basic safety at school.

One student even told the IPS school board recently that if they had kids they wouldn’t be sending them to Broad Ripple Middle.

While IPS admins pluck their kids out of IPS schools, we have to wonder – what message does Superintendent Johnson have for the parents that aren’t able to easily relocate their kids to other districts?

And what does Superintendent Johnson think it says about her leadership in IPS if her own staff won’t keep their kids in IPS?

A few weeks ago at a school board meeting in Indianapolis where the growing safety issues for students at Broad Ripple Middle School was raised by angry parents, one student spoke to the heart of what this website is dedicated to – educational hypocrisy.

The student told the Indianapolis School Board about Broad Ripple Middle School, “If any of you guys have kids, I bet you won’t send them here.”

A well-connected source tells us that upwards of 120 children have fled Broad Ripple over the past few weeks. It got us thinking, dear reader, do any IPS powers-that-be send their kids to Broad Ripple Middle?

We got a tip recently about an IPS administrator removing their kid from Broad Ripple—not only from the school but leaving IPS altogether for a different school district. 

If you can confirm our tip, please message us in the tip box to the left. 

And keep an eye on these pages for any updates.

Safe schools for kids of well-connected IPS administrators, but what about the rest of us?