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 In Chino, California, the local school board kicked out the State Superintendent of Schools from a school board meeting where they were discussing parents’ rights.  

The specific issue was a new policy requiring teachers and school officials to notify parents if a child is indicating they are transgender.

The locals want this policy, apparently the State did not since the State’s representative (no idea why he’d be there anyway) decided to go over his time ‘vigorously’ opposing the policy.

In front of 300 people, he was kicked out of the meeting and the new policy passed 4-1.

Apparently the dude was a total asshat–talking over the Chair of the Chino School board and actually tried to call a ‘point of order’ when he had no right to do so (and was informed of that fact by the board chair).

California’s Attorney General is getting in the mix too–trying to bully the locals into getting into line with the grooming agenda:

‘By allowing for the disclosure of a student’s gender identity without their consent, Chino Valley Unified School District’s suggested Parental Notification policy would strip them of their freedom, violate their autonomy, and potentially put them in a harmful situation,’ Bonta said.

‘(My) office has a substantial interest in protecting the legal rights of children in California schools and protecting such children from trauma and exposure to violence,’ the letter continued. 

‘I will not hesitate to take action as appropriate to vigorously protect students’ civil rights.’

From my understanding, student privacy is limited until a child is either an adult or is enrolled in a college or university so the CA AG is really overstepping.

Keeping this type of information from parents, who ultimately have to pick up the pieces of their childrens’ mental and physical health once they are destroyed in school, should be criminal. 

It’s refreshing to see a school board actually work with parents instead of against them.

On a more macro level, this is an example of why education and educational matters should be handled on the local level.  Student outcomes, literacy, and general knowledge, such as history, geography, etc. have only gone down since the advent of the federal Dept of Ed and the state Depts of Ed that followed.

Education should not be a top-down process.  No Child Left Behind sped up the decline of education in the US.  Policies, teaching to a test, etc. have all undermined our system.