Rochester school trustee defends parent targeted over Adams homecoming comment

A two-sentence social media comment about Rochester Adams High School's homecoming court has turned into an online fight between a Rochester Community Schools board member and an anonymous Facebook page that covers the district.

Adams crowned two homecoming kings and no queen this fall, according to a public Facebook post by Trustee Carol Beth Litkouhi. Adams parent Shannon Fashho responded online: "Bring back crowning Homecoming King and Queen. This is really sad for our girls."

The anonymous page RCS Connections then named Fashho in a long post that accused adults of cruelty toward students, Litkouhi wrote. The post included screenshots of comments from dozens of other people, some of which Litkouhi called "genuinely offensive, including slurs I don't condone."

"But Shannon didn't write them," Litkouhi wrote. "And expressing an opinion about a school tradition isn't the same as attacking children."

The students who were crowned are not named in this story.

Parent says she was called "disgusting"

Litkouhi's post shared a statement Fashho had written for another parent group and gave permission to repost.

Fashho, who describes herself as a mother and a precinct delegate, wrote that after her comment, "screenshots were grabbed, and I was accused of 'bullying children' and called 'disgusting.'"

"This wasn't an attack; it was simply my opinion that the tradition should be brought back," she wrote.

Fashho said she served as co-chair of Moms for Liberty Oakland County a few years ago, after the pandemic lockdowns. She said the chapter was not very active because she and the chair both worked, and that one project was collecting school supplies and filling backpacks for children in Pontiac schools.

She wrote that the person behind RCS Connections has "repeatedly attacked me and my friends." She said she plans to keep supporting school board and statewide candidates who back "parental rights."

"I believe EVERY child is a gift from God," she wrote.

Trustee: "guilt-by-association"

Litkouhi said critics brought up Fashho's past Moms for Liberty role to judge her by "the worst actions of anyone who's ever been connected to an organization." She said a local Moms for Liberty group endorsed her four years ago and that the page has since portrayed her as a "card-carrying member."

She called the page "MEA-endorsed," a reference to the Michigan Education Association teachers union.

"I'm perfectly happy to debate my actual words, votes, and positions," Litkouhi wrote. "But this GUILT-BY-ASSOCIATION game is just ugly politics, made easier by sniping from the shadows of an anonymous page."

Background

Litkouhi was elected to a six-year term on the Rochester board in 2022. The board voted 5-2 last November to censure her after she wrote an October 2025 Detroit News op-ed about plans for a countywide school "enhancement" millage, saying she had disclosed confidential information in violation of board bylaws. She sued the board in February with help from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

The district's website says Litkouhi's committee and school liaison assignments are suspended until Nov. 10 because of the censure.

The countywide enhancement millage went before voters in August and failed, 51.1% to 48.9%.

Sources: Public Facebook post by Trustee Carol Beth Litkouhi, including a statement by Shannon Fashho shared with permission; C&G Newspapers, Feb. 24, 2026; Michigan Capitol Confidential; Rochester Community Schools board website.