Author Archives: Harmonica

Parents: Don’t Let Your Kids Carry Chips into Pinellas Schools!

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Harmonica

Pinellas County Schools, Florida, just announced a pilot for two AI “weapons detection systems” starting in Spring 2026. This means students are going to be surveilled by an AI machine for weapons, and mathematical formulas could trigger on non-existent weapons—kids … Continue reading →

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Florida’s Public Schools: Your Local Psychometric Research Facility

Posted on November 11, 2023 by Harmonica

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You Asked Kids WHAT?!

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Harmonica

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Florida’s Inappropriate School Surveys: Wait, How Many Surveys?

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Harmonica

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Florida Education Rebranded Mental Health and Social Emotional Learning as “Resiliency”: Leading the Way with a Globalist Agenda

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Harmonica

https://citizenslighthouse.substack.com/p/florida-education-rebranded-mental

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Public Schools: A Massive For-Profit Surveillance Operation

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Harmonica

Schools surveil and collect data on children without your informed consent. School districts vary with respect to their Education Technology (EdTech) heavy handedness; but in my opinion one EdTech application is too many—it is data collection at risk of breach. … Continue reading →

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BREACHED: Hillsborough Schools (FL) Seventh Largest School District in USA

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Harmonica

On August 31, the country’s seventh largest school district sent correspondence to not all parents about a cybersecurity incident. Very little data is trickling out about what happened. Thirteen days later Hillsborough Schools has still not revealed when the malicious … Continue reading →

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Scholastic Bucks, Books, and Their Left-Overs

Posted on September 9, 2023 by Harmonica

In 2018 I discovered the series Dork Diaries and the deleterious effects it has on children. Imagine your school book fair selling a book to your joyful seven year old; a book you have no idea is filled with a … Continue reading →

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Part II. The Quiet Culling of Children’s Classics: Are Public School Librarians the Real “Book Banners”?

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Harmonica

Asking questions, listening to my kids, and trusting my instincts: this was how I discovered what was going on in libraries. In 2017 my children were coming home with very poor quality literature. They could read one of these “books” … Continue reading →

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The Quiet Culling of Children’s Classics: Are Public School Librarians the Real “Book Banners”?

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Harmonica

Critics call them “Book Banners”, “Book Burners”, even “Fascists”, but parents simply do not want anyone exposing children to graphic, obscene, and profane material behind their backs. This disingenuous name-calling obscures the truth: too many school librarians have ALREADY “banned … Continue reading →

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