Eagle River teacher doxxes Rep. Jamie Allard’s children during Eagle River legislative town hall

An Eagle River town hall meeting with legislators on April 13 was focused largely on education issues. There were lots of union members and officials there from the National Education Association-Alaska wearing “Red for Ed” shirts.

In attendance were Rep. Dan Saddler and Sen. Kelly Merrick. Rep. Jamie Allard was stuck in Juneau as the co-chair of the House Education Committee, with committee work that weekend.

With about 50 people in the room, and with a question-and-answer format, one teacher rose and called out Allard’s children, who have attended Eagle River schools.

“Hi, I’m Erica Arnold. I’m a lifelong Alaskan, Chugiak High School graduate, proud public school teacher at Ravenwood Elementary. I was very much looking forward to also speaking to Ms. Allard, so disappointed that she’s not here, specifically because her children went to Ravenwood – and when her children were in third grade, there was a class of 18 of third graders. Right now, what we have is classes of 28, 29, third grade is 30 and 31 kids in the class…”

Arnold was using the children of Rep. Allard to make the argument that more baked-in permanent funding, through a base student allocation from the state, is needed for schools.

A few in the audience were shocked that a teacher would dive into the school records of a sitting legislator’s children, and then give those details out to the public. One attendee told Must Read Alaska, “The only way she could have known that is if she had been rummaging around in those children’s records. These are minors and are being brought into a political discussion, and should never be brought in for any reason, but especially since Rep. Allard wasn’t there.”

Another noted, “It’s dirty politics to bring in someone’s kids like that.”

Parents have recourse, however, when teachers misbehave. The Professional Teaching Practices Commission is set up to respond and handle such ethical violations. Alaskans who feel a teacher has violated the code of ethics, such as teacher Erica Arnold doxxing (giving out private information) about children of a legislator or anyone else, can file a complaint.

From the Professional Teaching Practices Commission website at the State of Alaska, Alaskans can view the Code of Ethics that a certificated educator is required to follow and may file a request for an investigation on this Complaint Form. Be sure to include all information with asterisks and reference the subsections for violations with the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession.

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