{"id":9616,"date":"2023-05-01T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=9616"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:33:06","slug":"debate-over-school-board-bill-gets-heated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=9616","title":{"rendered":"Debate Over School Board Bill Gets Heated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sparks flew at the Assembly Education Committee this week when Assemblyman Corey Jackson (D-Riverside) made the case for his bill,\u00a0AB 1078<\/a>. In his opening remarks, Jackson said his legislation was necessary to respond to the \u201cbook banning\u201d campaign being waged by \u201cwhite Christian nationalists\u201d in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cAB 1078 is a bill that intends to combat the national Christian white supremacist movement which aims to ban books, school curriculum, and even more in our schools,\u201d Jackson told Committee members.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re really talking about the radicalization of the Christian faith to quite frankly draw upon people’s angers, economic angst \u2026 and drawing upon people’s biases to really achieve and use that anger to achieve a political objective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In reality, Jackson is referring to the ordinary parents who \u2014 across racial, economic and religious demographics \u2014 oppose graphic, sexualized content and politicized race-based curricula being pushed in K-12 schools to indoctrinate kids.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s bill, as initially proposed, seeks to eliminate the local control of elected school boards and to push parents out of the education equation. Jackson\u2019s legislation would mandate that California\u2019s 944 school boards receive approval from Sacramento bureaucrats at the state Board of Education before removing any offensive materials from classrooms or school libraries, or \u201cceasing to teach any curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cbook banning\u201d mantra \u2014 repeated dutifully by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the mainstream media\u00a0\u2014 is the next phase of the teachers unions\u2019 earlier attempt to brand parents as \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d for speaking out against extended school closures during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In a stinging response to Jackson at this week\u2019s hearing, Lance Christensen, CPC\u2019s Vice President of Education Policy and Government Affairs, addressed the Assembly Education Committee this way:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s shocking to have an author of a bill make such inflammatory commentary on those that would oppose this bill in good faith. I hope that the Committee and the Chair will take them to advisement.<\/p>\n

Ad hominem attacks on those who oppose radical indoctrination doesn’t mean we’re all white Christian nationalists. … What\u2019s more stunning is that there\u2019s a confusion here \u2026 about the curation of books versus banning books. Schools aren’t banning books;\u00a0they’re just simply not the Library of Congress. They don’t have every single text available to every single school and every single student ….<\/p>\n

… So a parent who is opposed to radical, pornographic or other material shouldn’t be called a white Christian nationalist \u2026.<\/p>\n

\u2026 I hope, Chair, there will be some correction here about the professional demeanor of having an intelligent conversation \u2026 We oppose AB 1078.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Take a couple of minutes to\u00a0watch both Assemblyman Jackson\u2019s comments and Lance Christensen\u2019s response here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

AB 1078 is part of what Jackson calls his \u201canti-racism\u201d legislation package. During his remarks, Jackson accused California parents of trying to \u201cwhitewash history\u201d as justification for his bill.<\/p>\n

As Lance Christensen explains, \u201cWe can have an adult conversation about California\u2019s history \u2014 whether it be Chinese workers treated as second class citizens in the 1879 state constitution, Japanese internment camps during World War II, entire neighborhoods redlined to keep Black Californians in subservient conditions or the severe mistreatment of Native Americans \u2014 but this bill is not that.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The proponents of AB 1078 are eager to confuse the thoughtful curation of books that add to the educational value of K-12 schools\u2019 curriculum with \u2018book banning\u2019 because they want to hide what they are really pushing in schools from parents,\u201d Christensen said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the unions\u2019 go-to PR trick: distraction. Teachers’ unions are losing badly in the court of public opinion so they\u2019ve set a phony fire to get everyone to focus on it (book banning!) \u2014 hoping no one will notice what they are introducing in schools (porn and Marxism!).<\/p>\n

The good news? AB 1078 was heavily amended by the Assembly Education Committee Chair before it was passed out of committee, so Jackson\u2019s attack on school board autonomy has been reduced to \u201ca working group\u201d that will publish \u201cguidance\u201d for school board members on these issues.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that the guidance will undoubtedly be used as a hammer to knock school board members into submission, so it\u2019s still critical that this legislation be soundly defeated.<\/p>\n

School board members, parents, teachers and concerned citizens should contact their local legislators and ask them to vote \u201cNo\u201d on AB 1078. You can email your legislator using\u00a0CPC\u2019s Take Action tool here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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