A suburban Kansas City mother who’s doggedly monitored sexually inappropriate materials in her public schools is now suing the district for banning her from school property last week.
After previously exposing explicit books on district shelves – and having been derided by school board members for reading bawdy excerpts at their meetings to make her point – Carrie Schmidt’s federal lawsuit alleges Kansas’ Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231 retaliated against her Feb. 11, violating her right to due process and her First Amendment right to free speech.
Schmidt took photos of sex-related posters in a school that she believed violated President Trump’s Jan. 29 executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.” She sent at least one photo to X watchdog account Libs of TikTok, which posted it Feb. 7. The photo advertised the high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance meetings.
