During her talk at Unionville High, the ‘queer witch’ showed students a presentation borrowing material from Planned Parenthood.
Parents are accusing a Philadelphia-area school district of gaslighting them and stonewalling their requests for information after it hosted a “queer witch” to speak to 14-year-olds about dating and to administer a sexual-themed survey to them.
Parents learned that last spring the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District in Chester County invited Dani Tobin to speak to teens at Unionville High School as part of a multi-week program on safe dating practices offered by The Crime Victim’s Center of Chester County, Inc, according to emails obtained by National Review.
Tobin, a “genderqueer” woman with they/he pronouns who has received breast removal surgery, claims on X to be a “feminist, ravenclaw, juggling, npr-listening, german-speaking ASTROLOGER.” Much of her Instagram page is dedicated to rune-reading. Her Instagram bio reads, “NO TERFS SWERFS OR NAZIS IN VALHALLA,” “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” and “heathens against hate.” Tobin’s Instagram also included a picture of her topless.
As part of an organization called Prana House, Tobin regularly hosts “queer witch” hangouts to practice witchcraft, according to the Prana House website.
While in the school, Tobin showed students a presentation borrowing material from Planned Parenthood, parents claim in the emails. She “handed out documents from Planned Parenthood (the largest abortion clinic in the United States) that day to all the 14 year olds in the audience,” a parent wrote last week to school board president Victoria Barratta.
In April, the Crime Victim’s Center boasted in a Facebook post about its speaking series on FRIES, an acronym about sexual consent created by Planned Parenthood that stands for “freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, and specific,” for sexual assault awareness month.
When parents asked administrators to produce the district’s protocol for approving guest speakers, they replied that Tobin was properly vetted and that the program had been going on for years at the high school, according to the emails. The district downplayed parent concerns as “misinformation.”
The surveys, part of the Crime Victim’s Center’s “Safe Dates Program,” asked students questions about their gender identity, dating habits, whether they had every been pressured into sexual activity, and whether they were ever physically harmed by someone they were dating, said Chad Williams, a parent and local lawyer. There was a survey given to students before the program and another after the program, which largely dealt with gender stereotypes and dating violence.
Students were required to complete surveys, as participation was assigned for class credit, Williams said. The average age of the students was 14.5, according to an email.
“I know many parents that expressed concerns about the [Crime Victim’s Center] program who will be quite alarmed to learn that the District allows minor children to be used as human research subjects in connection with a program conducted by a third-party agency, without first obtaining the informed consent of their parents,” Williams wrote in an email to district staff.
Parents of younger children in the school system later learned that the Crime Victim’s Center would be delivering a “Safe Touches” program for second grade classes, according to emails. A local elementary school principal similarly told a mother that the program had been in place for years, emails show.
The district terminated the Crime Victim’s Center program for teens after the parent backlash.
Asked for comment, UCFSD said it is currently investigating whether its formal survey policy was followed during CVC’s presentations to students.
“Chad Williams’ claim that UCFSD is stonewalling him is quantifiably false,” the district added. Williams sent his concerns to several federal and state agencies and departments and none found merit in his claims, the district claimed.
The school district told the Daily Wire that the Crime Victims Center provided lessons on safe dating to Unionville High students from 2016 to 2023, and that all of the center’s presenters completed the required training and received clearances to present from a script in accordance with district policy. “UCFSD is currently investigating whether the Survey policy was followed during these presentations,” the district said.
Williams argued that the surveys likely violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Pupil Protection and Privacy Amendment. He filed an educator misconduct complaint in April against superintendent John Sanville, alleging bad-faith delays and denials of his requests for information.