High School Obstructs Access To Curriculum Of Teacher Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Assassination

A Rhode Island high school is restricting parents from accessing the curriculum of a teacher who openly mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination by requiring an exorbitant fee.

A social studies teacher at Barrington Public Schools (BPS) was placed on leave in September after posting a video saying he had no sympathy for the Turning Point USA founder after he was killed. Now, a concerned parent tried to request information on what was taught in the teacher’s classroom only to be met with a fee of over $117,000, according to the Goldwater Institute.

“It should never cost $117,000 to see the curriculum materials of a single social studies teacher in a public school because those materials are already paid for by the taxpayer,” Nicole Solas, the mother who requested the records, said in a statement.

“Barrington Public School District’s exorbitant fee weaponizes Rhode Island’s Access to Public Records Act to block access to public information about what students are being taught instead of simply handing over the materials free of charge.”

In Rhode Island, agencies may issue a “reasonable charge” for retrieving documents, which cannot exceed $15 per hour. BPS estimated the requested documents would take 7,735.5 hours to recover — almost an entire year — bringing the total cost to $117,130.50.

BPS did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation