Bastrop, Tx – October 1, 2022
Supporters,
Jeremy Story and Dustin Clark are two warriors in the fight to protect parents’ rights in schools. For stepping up to defend our rights, they were jailed. They are now fighting a legal battle against the Round Rock Independent School District to protect our rights. They need our help.
Dustin is a Pastor and Chaplain for the Republican Party of Texas. He has led church services here, in Bastrop County, and has attended several of our meetings, including a presentation by Jeremy and Dustin in February to our group. Dustin is an IT professional and former Army Captain. They are stepping up. We need to step up and support them.
Following is an email from Jeremy and Dustin:
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Bastrop County Conservatives,
We near the one-year anniversary of one of the events at the September 14th, 2021 (Round Rock) school board meeting that led to the wrongful arrests of Dustin Clark and I on September 17th, and we need your continued support. Thank you for tracking with us! Our legal fight continues, and the battle will cost a lot more. Today, I am glad to share with you some great news!
Recently, our lawsuit had a hard-fought legal victory that moves us to the next stage. As I mentioned in our recent update to you, Round Rock ISD hired a team of lawyers that spent nearly $100,000 to file motions in a misguided attempt to dismiss Jeremy and Dustin’s civil rights claims. They badly want to hide the truth from the public. These filings required the lawyers representing us to spend an exorbitant amount of time and money to file responses to the motions. We responded with legal force with more than 70 new pages of legal reasoning and evidence. This resulted in the judge recently denying ALL the district’s motions to dismiss!
However, this tactic by the district lawyers was an attempt to bleed our legal resources dry in hopes we would no longer be able to continue the fight, and that’s why every donation is so critical at this stage moving forward. Would you pass this along to as many of your friends as possible? Would you consider making a donation?
Every tax-deductible donation will go 100% to continue the legal fight, the fight that represents the civil rights of all students, parents, and accountability of the education system. This case will set a precedent across the state and nation.
Many of you know us and our story of taking a stand to push back against the unethical and unlawful behavior of Round Rock ISD district leaders and five of the seven Board of Trustees. Our arrest was a boiling point from months of parents advocating for school board trustee accountability, transparency, the rule of law, and parent’s rights in the education of their children. Here are a few items that have occurred:
- Jeremy Story, a local parent and Republican Party of Texas State Chaplain, was drug off the speaking stand and out of the board room by school district police under orders from the school board President. He was speaking calmly and peacefully but, was exposing the board’s lack of concern for security because they were covering up a protective order for family violence filed against their Superintendent, Hafedh Azaiez.
- The Superintendent threatened and later assaulted his mistress with intent to abort his own child when she wouldn’t submit to his demands she get an abortion.
- Thirty days later, five members of the seven member RRISD school board catalyzed the arrest and jailing of Jeremy Story, a minister, and Dustin Clark, an IT project manager and former Army Captain. These parents were simultaneously arrested at their homes due to a false disorderly conduct affidavit catalyzed by school board members and the Superintendent.
• The school board violated Governor Abbott’s executive order and the Texas Attorney General’s ruling by implementing and extending a mandatory mask mandate. They simultaneously used school district police to prevent parents from entering board meetings.
• The Superintendent and school district is currently under investigation by the Texas Education Agency. RRISD is the only one among the 1,200 school districts in the state of Texas being led by a superintendent with a permanent restraining order.
• The TEA asked the school board to suspend the Superintendent. An independent investigator appointed by the school board subsequently concluded the school board should dismiss the Superintendent. Five members of the school board hid the report from the public and voted to reinstate the Superintendent.
• Five members of the school board have repeatedly tried censuring the dissenting two conservative board members to prevent them from attending board meetings. Temporary court injunctions have been required to stop the censure attempts.
• One the five malfeasant school board members has resigned, the RRISD Police Chief and Assistant Police Chief have resigned as have record numbers of administrators and teachers. RRRISD currently has 300 classrooms without teachers.
• Over 5,000 parents have taken their students out of the district (11% of the enrollment). This resulted in a deficit for the district. The malfeasant board members has voted for a secondary tax increase and opened enrollment to surrounding districts to cover the problem.
We have not wavered and have not been deterred in our advocacy for parental rights. This situation has only emboldened them to continue to fight for parents in Round Rock ISD, and parents across the state of Texas and the country.
Donations are now being accepted by The White Hat Institute, a non-profit setup for this purpose, and every dollar is used exclusively for our legal battle.
Go to this website – www.riseforstudents.org to donate today!
Sincerely,
Jeremy Story and Dustin Clark