On April 27, 2026, Allen Independent School District replied to the Local Integrity Oversight Network (LION)’s April 22 Open Demand Letter. The reply was sent by Robin Wilhelm, Allen ISD’s Assistant Superintendent of Learner Services. The reply directed LION to the district’s online Public Input Form. The Public Input Form is a Google Form Allen ISD opened for the 30-day public review window on the proposed 818-title library materials purchase (List 4 — the fourth and final 2025–26 library-materials purchase list, comprising 818 titles), which closes May 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM.

The reply did not address the statutory citations in the demand letter — Texas Penal Code §43.24 (sale, distribution, or display of harmful material to a minor), 13 Texas Administrative Code §4.2 (age-appropriateness standards for school library collections), or Allen ISD Board Policy EFA/EFA-R1 (instructional resources and library materials selection). The reply did not address the 90-day postponement demand itself.

LION sent a same-day response on April 27 documenting the time burden a parent would face attempting a comparable review of the 818 titles inside Allen ISD’s 30-day window. The math, broken out by step:

• Initial screening of all 818 proposed titles at 10 minutes per title: 136 hours and 20 minutes — the equivalent of more than seventeen full eight-hour workdays.
• Reading professional and parent reviews for the roughly 200 titles LION’s preliminary screening flagged, at 50 minutes per title: 167 hours.
• Writing content summaries on those 200 flagged titles at 75 minutes per title: 250 hours.
• Filing formal reconsideration complaints on contested titles: 20 hours.

LION’s response calculated the total realistic time burden for one dedicated parent at 550 to 650 hours — the equivalent of three-and-a-half to four months of full-time work, or six-and-a-half to eight months at a part-time pace of twenty hours per week. As three exemplar Lowery Freshman Center (ninth-grade campus) titles inside the time-burden math, LION named Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley, The Danger of Small Things by Caryl Lewis, and Devils Like Us by L.T. Thompson — the same three titles cited in the April 22 demand letter.

LION’s April 27 response reiterated the original demand: an immediate postponement of all proposed 2026 library materials purchases for a minimum of ninety days from the scheduled May 26, 2026 board vote. The stated purpose of the ninety-day extension is to give the district’s Local School Library Advisory Council (LSLAC — the parent-and-community council a Texas school district must convene to make recommendations on library materials) — the council required under Texas Education Code §33.025, enacted by Senate Bill 13 (SB 13) in 2023 — sufficient time to complete individual reviews of the flagged titles, and to give parents a workable window to participate in the public review process the statute contemplates.

The April 27 exchange is the only written response Allen ISD has provided to the April 22 demand letter to date.