Jacki & Noelle Caskey at RMV Freedom Fest 2026

When 13-year-old Noelle Caskey wrote a pro-life poem titled "A life is a life, no matter how small" for her 7th grade honors class at Drake Middle School in Jeffco, she never imagined she'd be told she couldn't read it aloud — because it was "too politically charged."

Her mother Jacki fought back, and what started as a poem assignment for 20 classmates went viral, reaching millions.

Their story is a front-row look at what's happening inside Colorado classrooms — where a student can be silenced for writing about life, while lessons on transgender ideology are called "educational, not political."

Jacki and Noelle are joining us at Freedom Fest to share their story firsthand and remind us why parents — and kids — must never stop speaking.