Terry McAuliffe, 2021 Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, in a debate said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” It probably cost McAuliffe the election. Today, what was once a huge faux pas is now a plank in the California Democratic Party platform. California is barging ahead full speed to turn McAuliffe’s blunder into policy reality. California parents, if you didn’t have any more reasons, follow the lead of London’s parents during the 1940 Blitz who removed their children to the countryside and get your kids out of the state. That may be the only recourse left to you to protect them.
Don’t think for a moment that a private school will be any refuge. Many of them are infected by the same ideological smog that dominates the rest of the state’s Education Borg. Any holdouts will probably be squashed. Sorry, there’s not likely to be any escape from the psychological scars and indoctrination if you remain within the borders of the state.
What prompts this warning? Two things sound the alarm: the all-powerful California teachers unions are four-square behind porn in school libraries and curricular reading lists, and the introduction of AB 1078. The former illustrates the monopoly power of a special interest in support of psychological scarring of tender young minds, and the latter would handcuff the parents’ ability to stop it.
Regarding the former, the Orange Unified School District Board of Trustees in Orange County, Ca., had a parent come forward to express concerns about some of the approved selections on the district’s reading list for elementary students. The meeting was raucous with the room filled with teachers’ union activists protesting “book burning”, a rhetorical pseudonym for attempts to clean school libraries and curricular reading lists of blatant porn. One parent braved the insults and catcalls of the union activists to step forward to express her concerns about subjecting her children to material that used to be found only on the pages of Hustler magazine. Then the room gradually fell silent as she began to read from one selection, “The Music of What Happens”, which was found on the approved reading list app Sora. To their credit, the board acted with dispatch by removing it the next day. But it took an act of great personal courage to weather the abuse just to get a wildly inappropriate book from reaching the eyes of her kids.
A good part of the problem is the reliance on “experts” who are enthused about pushing the sexual revolution. You can find them throughout the Education Borg, public and private, like Sora. Sora “experts” approved the selections, school districts buy the app, and an “expert”-inspired revolution is advanced with the kids as guinea pigs.
If you as a parent don’t like it, AB 1078, if passed, will stop you from acting on your need to protect your children. Introduced by Assemblyman Corey Jackson (D-Riverside), the bill would prevent local school boards from removing “any instructional materials or books from classrooms and school libraries or ‘ceasing to teach any curriculum’” without approval of the state board of education, which is under the thumb of the California teachers unions.
With AB 1078, locally elected school boards would become toothless and parent presentations before them would be meaningless. In a one-party state of near totalitarian control of all facets of life, the constitutional guarantees of a republican form of government and the right to petition your government will be trampled to maintain power for a special interest in the vanguard of the sexual revolution. If you’re not onboard the revolution, you’ll be run over.
It’s a war on parents, a war on California parents by California’s state government. Sorry for stating the obvious but you’re only option if you have kids may be to leave the state. The stranglehold of the one-party state government and its featherbedding abettor – a public sector union – might be too strong to break in time to save your kids.
RogerG
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* “AB 1078 would strip school boards’ authority over curriculum”, California Policy Center, at https://mailchi.mp/calpolicycenter/join-us-for-cpcs-parent-union-legislative-summit-june-22-376361?e=5436867e20
* “A Parent Complained About A Digital Book. Then An Orange County School Board Suspended The Whole Library”, Jill Replogle and Michael Flores, LAist, 2/3/2023, at https://laist.com/news/education/school-district-book-banning-censorship-app-conservatives-orange-unifed
* “Will Swaim: Here’s what’s really going on at the Orange Unified School District”, Will Swaim, Orange County Register, 2/5/2023, at https://www.ocregister.com/2023/02/05/will-swaim-heres-whats-really-going-on-at-the-orange-unified-school-district/