Passing Notes
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Coming Fall 2025
What they don’t tell you at the best public high school in America...Passing Notes© is a searing collection of essays chronicling my lived experiences inside two very different—but equally hostile—school systems: one that claimed to be the best public high school in America, and one that I believe actually is. Beneath their glossy reputations, both revealed a darker truth—one where racism, sexism, retaliation, and institutional silence thrived. This book is not just a memoir. It’s a survival guide for educators, staff, and anyone navigating toxic workplace environments—especially those who dare to speak up. With honesty and urgency, Passing Notes examines how schools fail the very people who hold them up: teachers and students, and offers critical insights into knowing your rights, protecting your peace, and reclaiming your power. Check out a preview below and pre-order here.
Passing Notes: FOIA timeline
This is a live timeline of my FOIA requests — including those I’ve obtained, am appealing with the Public Access Counselor, or am still awaiting responses on. All documents here were obtained through legal Freedom of Information Act requests. These are published for public interest and transparency, and not for commercial use. While I am not permitted to reproduce these FOIA documents in my book Passing Notes © for commercial purposes, I am sharing them here as part of a public record. Scroll to the bottom for an excerpt from the FOIA chapter of Passing Notes ©.
"I had forgotten the most important lesson as a woman: you have nothing to gain, but to be humiliated when reporting sexual misconduct."
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⌚️ - awaiting
👩🏽⚖️ - appealed
✅ - obtained
BPHSiA - Best Public
High School in America
Passing Notes: Excerpt
It is best to read this chapter by first listening to George Michael’s “Freedom! '90”
This chapter is part legal awakening, part personal reckoning. After being silenced, sidelined, and gaslit by systems built to protect power — not people — I learned to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as both a shield and a sword. Here, I document how I used FOIA to reclaim my narrative, expose institutional misconduct, and demand truth from the public systems that failed me. It’s not just a chapter — it’s a warning, a love letter, and a mirror held up to the structures that pretend to be neutral. It’s also where I discovered that one of the “best public high schools in America” was less about education and more about business.
Because freedom isn’t given. It’s filed for.