Arizona School Board Member Says District Should Reject Hiring Christian Teachers

Spencer Lindquist 3 Mar 2023, Tags:  

Tamillia Valenzuela, a school board member in Arizona’s Washington Elementary School District, said she opposes having a contract with a Christian university over their religious beliefs. The school district, which serves students in the Phoenix and Glendale areas, had a contract with Arizona Christian University for five years. The contract allowed student teachers at the university to be placed in the district’s classrooms in order to gain experience.   The board then agreed to dissolve the partnership with Arizona Christian University on February 23rd, with board member Tamillia Valenzuela criticizing the institution’s Christian beliefs...........To Read More...

My Take - When you read this weirdo's bio you have to wonder who in the world voted for her?   Apparently three of the board members are gay, which most likely gives them a majority, and guess what county this is in?  Maricopa!  And you're shocked, right?  

 

Parents need control, not just ‘a voice’

October 21, 2022  By Sheri Few

Before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy moves ahead with the Commitment to America, I hope he spends some time listening to parents first-hand. I think he may see his version, while close, misses the mark.

Taxpayer-funded schools continue to push pornographic materials to even the youngest students, and they seem more energetic than ever to teach anti-American propaganda and Marxist critical theories. Who gave their consent to this? Not the parents I know. Schools are building walls between parents and schoolchildren, destroying families with grooming, counseling, and even medicating students in gender transitions, all against the will of their parents.

As members of a national organization standing for parents, United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) greatly anticipated McCarthy’s Commitment to America. We firmly believe our country is suffering under the Democrat Party governance and agree that Republicans must act boldly to regain control and return our county to robust prosperity...........To Read More...

What's Really Going on in Our Schools

By Rich Kozlovich

There's been a great deal of outrage expressed over Florida's law on sex education for very young children.  Outrage from the left because it has passed, and outrage from the parents because this needed to be passed.  But I'm a bit amazed. Why? 

Because it isn't like it just started this year. Below are a series of recent articles dealing will this, but below them I've linked some articles from my files going back to 2013 and 2014.  And no one noticed this has been going on for years.  Is it possible the media has been hiding it?  Remarkable!

Well, the rock has been turned over and parents are seeing what was under that rock, and they're just a bit upset.  Teachers are upset also, because these parents actually believe these children belong to them and not the education system.   Imagine that.  It would appear these teachers, teacher's unions and boards of education keep forgetting who are paying the bills, who the children belong to and who really is in charge.  

They seem to think they're unaccountable autocrats rather then employees.  Well, the parents think if they're paying the bills, they're the employer.  Imagine that.  And when the employer is told to shove it by the employee, things can and will get testy.   This cartoon really sets to tone for the next election. 

and some serious changes need to be made, starting with the elimination for the Department of Education, followed by the elimination of Public Employee Unions, especially teacher's unions.

   

At a Fairbanks school board meeting, you could feel the leftist panic - April 26, 202  By Andrea Widburg -  When I think of Alaska, I tend to think of a sturdy conservative state that elected Sarah Palin as its governor.  Then I remember that Alaskans keep sending Lisa Murkowski to the Senate.  Clearly, there's a leftist strain in that state.  It was clearly revealed at a Fairbanks School Board meeting regarding a proposed revision to school policies that would have required teachers to wade into controversial, polarizing subjects.  That's an interesting discussion and one school boards should have.  What I found noteworthy, though, was the desperate speed with which leftist board members moved to silence a conservative board member who peacefully began to read from a book readily found on the high school library shelves............

More Secret Gender Transition Closets Discovered in Public Schools Epoch Times, by Alice Giordano - They started in colleges, but trans closets—rooms stocked with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving at school and back out of before going home—are being discovered in public schools, with some indication that they’re being kept secret from parents. In a recent TikTok video, a California teacher implies that the trans closet he started at the high school where he works is meant to be kept from parents. “The goal of the transition closet is for our students to wear the clothes that their parents approve of, come to school, and then swap out into the clothes that fit who they truly are,” the teacher said.........

The Role of Parents in Education - By Anthony Matoria  April 26, 2022 - The education of children is one of the more consequential issues in American politics.  This is so, not merely because of concerns regarding the poor quality of education in many locations throughout the country, but also because the issue is used to justify alterations to established institutions and norms. The family and the individual dignity and welfare of the child are among these institutions and norms. Debate regarding education thus tends to wander into such areas as "parental rights" and whether children "belong" to society.  These are the issues of actual interest to progressive ideologies, and education is merely one front on which the ideologues seek to advance their agenda. .............  

 

Transgender Mania Grips the White HOuse, Despite Wrnings From Europe...  By Bill Donohue | April 22, 2022  - There is no such person as a transgender — you are either male or female — but there is such a thing as transgenderism: it is an ideology that promotes the fiction that the sexes are interchangeable.  To win, proponents are bent on getting to children, prompting little kids to question whether they are satisfied being a boy or a girl. If they are in doubt, they should be advised to at least consider making the switch.  There is no more rabid advocate of transgenderism in America than the president of the United States. Indeed, transgender mania has gripped the White House........

State to require 2nd graders to learn about gender identity You can have 'boy parts' but be a girl-  By WND News Services  April 22, 2022 - New sex-education standards that are set to go into effect in New Jersey this year have sparked a nationwide controversy and have even led to a public comment from the state’s Democratic governor, who supports the standards but wants clarification on what children will be taught. The standards, approved in 2020, are scheduled to be implemented this fall and will expand what students across all grades will learn about several issues, including LGBTQ+ matters. For example, by the end of grade 2, children should be able to “discuss the range of ways people express their gender and how gender-role stereotypes may limit behavior.”........

'The Way in Which Wars Start': Randi Weingarten Warns Parental Rights Bills Could Have Severe Consequences - Landon Mion Apr 22, 2022 10  -American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said on a recent podcast that GOP-backed parental rights legislation could have alarming results and even suggested that such laws are how "wars start." During an appearance on a podcast with radio host Rick Smith earlier this month, Weingarten criticized parental rights bills like the one recently signed into law in Florida. "This notion – we've been very lucky in America, and we in some ways live in a bubble for a long time," she said. "This is propaganda. This is misinformation. This is the way in which wars start. This is the way in which hatred starts." The AFT president also dismissed the suggestion that teachers are engaging in efforts to make students think in a certain way or are exposing children to inappropriate content...............

LGBTQ Activist Group Urges American Students to ‘Take Vow of Silence’ in Schools to Address ‘Anti-LGBTQ Behavior’ - April 22, 2022 Susan Berry, PhD -  The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) rallied U.S. students to participate in their annual Day of Silence Friday, during which the students are supposed to vow to remain silent in school, apparently to draw attention to claims of “anti-LGBTQ behavior.” According to GLSEN, which was founded by gay activist and former Obama administration “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings, the “Day of Silence” is “a national student-led demonstration where LGBTQ students and allies  all around the country—and the world—take a vow of silence to protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ people in schools.”..........

Now, from the files of Paradigms and Demographics let's take a very short trip back in time to 2013  and 2014.

‘Gay’ Lawmaker to Christians: ‘We’ll Take Your Children’ - August 25, 2013 by J. Matt Barber - Few people doubt that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hopes to become president in 2016. Unfortunately for him, he may have just signed away any chance of that. Last week, Christie signed A3371, a draconian piece of legislation that bars licensed therapists from helping children overcome unwanted same-sex attractions, behavior or identity. This law bans help for minors even when – as is so often the case – those same-sex attractions arise from childhood sexual abuse by the likes of a Jerry Sandusky.

 

This law will prohibit minors and their parents from receiving counseling they desire and will force counselors to violate ethical codes because they will not be able to help clients reach their own counseling goals. This law would enslave children – whether abused or not – to a subjectively determined sexual identity that they reject....[beyond] violating their first amendment rights......The governor is one of three things. He is either: 1) ill-informed, 2) politically motivated or 3) stupid.

 
I don’t know, I guess he could be 4) all of the above.....

 
DOJ: Children Do Not Need—and Have No Right to--Mothers - March 3, 2013 By Terence P. Jeffrey -  Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., speaks at Georgetown Law School.  The Obama Justice Department is arguing in the United States Supreme Court that children do not need mothers.   The Justice Department’s argument on the superfluity of motherhood is presented in a brief the Obama administration filed in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, which challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that amended California’s Constitution to say that marriage involves only one man and one woman.
The Justice Department presented its conclusions about parenthood in rebutting an argument made by proponents of Proposition 8 that the traditional two-parent family, led by both a mother and a father, was the ideal place, determined even by nature itself, to raise a child.   The Obama administration argues this is not true. It argues that children need neither a father nor a mother and that having two fathers or two mothers is just as good as having one of each….

 
Yale mulls paying for students' sex change operations - By Joshua Rhett Miller Published February 28, 2013 - Yale is considering joining Brown, Penn, Harvard and Cornell universities by picking up the tab for Ivy League students who want sex changes.  The New Haven, Conn., school is still reviewing policies regarding the procedure for its 5,322 undergraduate students and its 6,526 graduate and professional students, but has already extended gender reassignment coverage to employees.  "The benefit is offered to faculty and staff, and is being considered for students," Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart told FoxNews.com in an email. "Cost would vary depending on treatment."  Gabriel Murchison, a member of Yale’s Resource Alliance for Gender Equity (RAGE), told FoxNews.com gender reassignment surgery is just one of several areas where student health care should be on par with that offered to faculty, staff and their dependents....

 
Irate parents pummel gov't official over porn in class - By WND Staff October 13, 2019 - 'If it's not suitable to talk about with adults, how can it possibly be suitable to talk about in schools?' Parents infuriated over school-mandated lessons that "promote pornography" have confronted the education secretary in the United Kingdom.  It happened at a recent National Parent Forum of Scotland event.  The Christian Institute explained that one of the parents faced off with Education Secretary John Swinney over the curriculum. "When [a] father gave a graphic description of what he claimed was being taught, he was asked by the chair of the event to tone down his language. He responded by saying if it's not suitable to talk about with adults, how can it possibly be suitable to talk about in schools?'" the institute said. The parents charged the lessons are "corrupting children.".........

The Deep State control of the education system

February 8, 2022 By John Dietrich

Progressive control of the U.S. educational system, operating secretly via entrenched bureaucrats and cooperating elected officials, has been exposed by incidents in Loudoun County, Virginia.  In other words, the Deep State rules the classrooms of America.

A major factor affecting the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election (and destined to affect the 2022 midterm elections) is the public's reaction to progressive control of the educational system.  This control had been successfully concealed by the major media until an incident at a Loudoun County school board meeting made national news.  At this June 22, 2021 school board meeting, parent Scott Smith was arrested. 

Smith was protesting the fact that his daughter had been raped in the girl's bathroom on May 28 by a "transgender" student.  School officials' first response was an attempt to cover up the incident.  School board member Beth Barts proclaimed, "Our students do not need to be protected, and they are not in danger."  Superintendent Scott Ziegler claimed: "To my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms."

Ziegler, who is paid $295,000 a year, intentionally lied to the public about this incident.  In fact, he was the creator of one of the records covering the incident.  On the day of the attack, he wrote school board members a note entitled  "CONFIDENTIAL School Incident."  It stated, "This afternoon a female student alleged that a male student sexually assaulted her in the restroom."  When this lie was exposed, he responded, "I regret that my comments were misleading and I apologize for the distress that error caused families."  He added, "My heart aches for you and I am sorry that we failed to provide the safe, welcoming, and affirming environment that we aspire to provide.".........To Read More....

It’s time to start arresting school board members for child pornography

September 25, 2021 By Andrea Widburg

 

Editor's Note:  I have to warn you the information Andrea presents here from this Board of Education meeting is very graphic, but it's what the kids are being exposed to..  RK 

When I was in junior high school, the “edgy” novel was Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, about a girl entering puberty and talking with her friends about periods and bras. How things have changed. Now, high schools have graphic novels with text and illustrations favorably detailing all aspects of homosexual sex, including pedophilia. When a mother in Fairfax, Virginia, brought that to the board’s attention, the board shut her down. It’s time that parents use lawfare and shut these board members down. It’s time that parents across America do that.

I’ll include Asra Q. Nomani’s Twitter thread about the hearing at the end of this post. For now, I’ll just summarize the main point, which is that, Stacy Langton, a brave mother. showed the board that there is graphic pornography in the libraries at two high schools. These materials are available to kids as young as 12 and 13.

Langton read excerpts of the books, which are written as graphic novels—and they put the “graphic” in graphic. Endless pictures, along with explicit text, show men and boys engaged in oral sex. The books apparently describe anal sex in great detail as well.

Ironically, the school board shut her down—literally turning off the mic—because, said one of the board members, there were children in the room (although, apparently, there were not). That is, those board members fully understood that the books in their library are pornographic and unfit for children. The parents in the poorly attended meeting cried “shame” at those board members.

Eventually, the Board members, after lecturing the parents for behaving inappropriately and after negative press, grudgingly agreed to withdraw the books and reconsider them. That’s not good enough. That still leaves these people in charge of the schools. There’s more parents must do.

After her mic was cut, Langton shouted out an important point: By making those books available to minors, the schools are committing a criminal act. In Virginia, as is true across America, producing, possessing, or distributing child pornography are all criminal acts. Moreover, according to FindLaw, the sentences under Virginia’s penal code “are some of the harshest in the country and can result in jail, fines, a criminal record, and sex offender registration.” Here’s how FindLaw defines what is prohibited:

Production: Solicit or entices a minor to be the subject of child porn, produces, prepares to produce, or attempts to make child pornography, knowingly takes part in or participates in the production of child pornography, financing child pornography or attempting to finance child pornography

Possession: Knowingly possessing an item depicting sexual exploitation or abuse of a child;

Distribution: Knowingly distributing an item of child pornography Distribution means reproducing, copying, selling, giving away, and electronically transmitting, etc. child pornography.

The Virginia Code also prohibits grooming young children by showing them pornographic material. There are federal laws against child pornography as well. (And given the books’ extraordinarily graphic nature and their encouraging gay pedophilia, good luck saying they’re “educational.”)............And now those tweets I promised and that I urge you to read (and, when it comes to the videos, to watch). Be warned that they are pornographic.........To Read More....

• Did Matt Walsh Just Pull Off the Most Epic Troll of the Year - The insanity that permeates school districts throughout the country has finally become a major issue, with Republicans beginning to take the fight to school boards and other officials. That’s been driven by a realization that while priorities have been focused nationally, things like Critical Race Theory and transgender ideology have become pervasive locally. Better late than never, I suppose........
• Minnesota parents accuse school district of instructing students to roleplay as homosexuals - This Richfield Public Schools curriculum, known as 3Rs, has recently attracted widespread attention because of just how radical it appears to be. One exercise included in the curriculum calls for pairs of students to role play as homosexual lovers.  “One activity in the curriculum directs a male student to pretend his name is ‘Morgan,’ a boy who is ‘very active’ in his school’s LGBTQ club, while another student pretends to be ‘Terence,’ a closet homosexual who wants to have sex with Morgan,” according to Alpha News, a local independent news outlet that broke the story on Thursday........