Two Pittsford parents have come forward alleging they faced stonewalling and silencing by the Pittsford Central School District after their daughter’s hair was touched repeatedly by a Barker Road Middle School lunch monitor early last year. The incident triggered a chain of events that would culminate in the district offering to pay a year of private school tuition for the couple’s daughter in a settlement agreement that would have included a non-disclosure agreement described by the district’s lawyer, Laura Purcell of Bond, Schoeneck & King, as a “typical” provision for “such agreements,” according to a Sept. 25, 2024 email she sent detailing the district’s settlement response.