Parents ask board for closed‑session hearing on alleged melatonin incidents; legal counsel recommends upholding level‑two findings

Two members of a family told the Edinburg CISD board on April 14 that they want a closed‑session hearing about four level‑three grievances alleging that melatonin spray was used on students.

"We respectfully request to be heard in close sessions so that the board again can fully understand the facts impacting our child," said Leticia Kintania during public comment, asking the board to follow board policy FNG and Texas law on due process. She said the copies of investigation findings the family had just received differed from the packet the board members had and that factual disputes about whether a sponsor used melatonin on students could not be resolved without protected testimony.

Her husband, Antonio Kintani, told the board he had compiled voluminous evidence and said he was frustrated that administrators had not responded to repeated requests for information. He urged trustees to hold staff and administrators accountable.

What the board did: later in closed session, counsel advised trustees to uphold the level‑two decisions on all four grievances after reviewing the level‑three hearing packets. The board then moved and recorded a vote accepting counsel’s recommendation; the public transcript records the action and states the motion carried.

Why it matters: the commenters allege conduct that they say affects student safety and trust in complaint handling; the board publicly recorded that it received counsel’s advice and voted to follow counsel’s recommendation, but the transcript does not include the closed‑session evidence or the detailed findings cited by either side.

The district’s actions on personnel matters and the board’s directions in closed session were recorded as administrative actions and were accepted during the meeting’s return to open session.