​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Moms for Liberty activist  - MFL local chapter website blogger and school board meeting reporter, endorsed by their PAC in 2022

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Website: www.franklinfortn.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/franklinfortn

Twitter/X: @elliottfranklin 

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We're not sure where to start with the Moms for Liberty candidate who's been actively trying all methods to get on the Williamson County School Board for the past 5 years. 

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There's a LOT to read below so we're going to sum it up for those who don't have time for all the details: 

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• Moms for Liberty, as active as they get around here. That should be the full stop for any candidate but there's plenty more. 

• No kids in WCS yet has been very misleading about this, and uses the homeschooling policy for his private school son to be on the Brentwood HS club volleyball team and has said he wants to be on the Board to help more families do the same. 

• He's admitted in emails to Board members that he has actively searched for WCS teacher social media accounts to find material as cause for punishment or termination. 

• He's lobbied for taxpayer-funded religious charter schools here in Williamson County and will ostensibly continue to be pro-charter 

• He's had fail after fail with posting wildly inaccurate information about the district and uses janky AI-generated photos of his own zoned High School. He's already proven he can't fulfill a core role of a Board member to keep the community informed with accurate information.

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We don't even have to touch on the Moms for Liberty involvement (but we sure will) to show why Elliott Franklin is completely unfit for the Williamson County School Board. 

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In 2021, he was one of 10 applicants for the interim D4 appointment in 2021 when Brad Fiscus resigned, but did not receive a single commissioner nomination....meaning none of the 24 County Commissioners thought he was worth considering for the vacancy at the time. 3 people were nominated for consideration and Josh Brown won the appointment by a majority vote. 

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He then ran in 2022 for that same District 4 seat but lost in the primary. 

You really should read this candidate interview from when he ran at that time, especially about their schooling strategy with their children. 

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Now in 2026, they've recently moved from one side of Franklin to the other in District 10, and he's running for that School Board spot. ​​

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Elliott has zero children in WCS, despite it appearing that he still has multiple school-aged children at home. 

One child attends FCA (Franklin Christian Academy) which is popular among the local homeschooling groups as a religious private school choice.

 

The interview we linked above is relevant because of this exchange, and recent social media drama when Elliott was called out for misrepresenting his son's participation with the Brentwood High School boys volleyball team: 

 

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​Here's our post on the topic as well as Eric Welch's page thread. 

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This is super important for a number of reasons: 

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1. Elliott Franklin has been actively lobbying for publicly funded charter schools, such as the proposed Founders Classical Academy (not to be confused with the existing Franklin Christin Academy where his son attends). These "classical education" Hillsdale-curriculum affiliated charter schools were in the news back in 2022 and Elliott was a public proponent of getting them approved for his own family and others, and the "where do your kids go to school right now?" discussion exposes his platform of running to help homeschool and private school families do what they do: 

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Only use WCS for the parts they need, like varsity sports opportunities. 

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There's a long history around here of homeschool and private school parents twisting their words to make it appear like they send their kids to WCS when they do not, and Elliott is right in line with that - frequently calling himself a Williamson County parent.

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​While that is true - he's a parent that lives in Williamson County, TN - when it's used as part of of your School Board campaign posts, it's very misleading. Coupled with his Brentwood High School posts, where his child doesn't actually attend because it sounds like he wasn't able to test into the right grade after coming out of homeschooling based on Elliott's own explanations in FB discussions.

It's clear they've just used WCS policies to find a way for them to utilize a sports opportunity, and has said he's running to make it easier for other families who want to do the same. *Note: Brentwood High isn't even where they're zoned and is not a District 10 high school.

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2. Elliott has a long history of messing up or being downright wrong on social media, and has already proven he's completely unreliable when it comes to providing accurate data about the district he's saying he's qualified to represent. We invite you to read this thread on his own page where he posted completely outdated or just flat out wrong Superintendent pay data, which is the kind of mistake public officials should never be making. (We have a hunch relying on AI is to blame.) 

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His communications gaps and disregard for accuracy were even more clear by his recent blunders with using an AI-generated Franklin High school cover photo on his FB page which had the wrong aged kids AND the wrong school mascot. It took people calling him out for this and no less than 3 tries before he finally settled on a real photo of the school with a flag at half-mast. 

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Look at how janky the second AI school building is - he clearly didn't even bother to take a quick look at it before posting.

This may seem silly to nitpick but this is a terrifying quality in a potential public official. ​​​​