Big Win for Fair Education Santa Barbara

 

After nearly five years of pitch battle, Fair Education Santa Barbara has won.   Just Communities Central Coast (JCCC),  the purveyor of school-sponsored bigotry and the skulduggery of Critical Race Theory,  has finally been dissolved.  In short, JCCC bites the dust.   While JCCC may shape shift, mutate, and re-emerge in a new form,  this is a moment to dance for joy!    For this brief moment of time,  good triumphed over evil, courage over fear, and love over hate.    In late 2018, a concerned group of parents and educators formed Fair Education Santa Barbara to advocate for children and parents and to challenge the hidden curriculum of JCCC, which has being funded to the tune of over $1.7 million by the Santa Barbara Unified School District.    At the time,  the Santa Barbara Unified School Board and JCCC said that JCCC's ironically named "anti-bias" training was  "intellectual property",  like Google's source code or Coca Cola's secret recipe, and could not possibly be shared with the public.   Fair Education Santa Barbara's only option to expose this scam was to sue JCCC and include their  bigoted curriculum as part of the lawsuit.  For example, one such curriculum document titled, Table of Oppression , segregates people, based on their race, into groups such as privileged oppressors or targeted victims.  From JCCC's once hidden documents, it is evident that JCCC took its cues from 1930’s Germany and Apartheid era South Africa as to the power and effect of dehumanizing and dividing specific groups of people.   Fair Education’s first-in-the-nation lawsuit against JCCC lit the spark for the prairie fire that has spread across America, to provide parents with the information and knowledge needed to fight the racially divisive, anti-American, sexually over-the-top indoctrination occurring daily in our schools beginning in Kindergarten.   Our lawsuit exposed the tip of a very toxic iceberg,  where tens of millions of dollars in public tax dollars were going to radical nonprofits like JCCC to indoctrinate school children.    Fair Education’s lawsuit would have succeeded even further if those who experienced the in-school hate first-hand had felt more secure several years back to go public with their experiences. Thanks to the Fair Education Santa Barbara pioneers in this fight, the reluctance of parents, children and educators to speak out publicly has begun to erode across America. While Fair Education Santa Barbara did not succeed in the Santa Barbara Superior Court,  we did eventually succeed in the court of public opinion.    After exposing JCCC for their vile bigotry and harmful tactics,  only the most radical and willfully blind partisans in Santa Barbara continued to support JCCC.    While a few local philanthropists, like the Hutton Parker Foundation, blindly gave tax exempt support to JCCC,  most philanthropists distanced themselves from JCCC as they came to realize how badly they had been duped.  Even the notoriously woke Santa Barbara Unified School District had moved on to bucketing money to other social justice grifters,  leaving JCCC befret of funding.   On August 31, 2022,  JCCC was dissolved. Fair Education Santa Barbara succeeded in its mission of educating the community on the actual Critical Race Theory curriculum pushed by JCCC     In this battle for openness, truthfulness and our children's future,  we learned a number of important lessons.  First, our local press coverage is highly partisan and deeply-biased.   Only one local paper had the courage to cover us without fear or favor.   Second, we learned  that our locally elected judges could be swayed by their social entanglements with the Progressive elite.   Thirdly, we learned how rabidly partisan and ideologically radical our local school boards have become and how far too many of the board members and top administrators fail to help or even protect students, parents or teachers.    But most of all,  we learned that no matter the barriers placed in front of us, MLK jr. was prescient:  it is always the right time to do that which it right.   And even in Santa Barbara, with enough outreach, determination and courage,  the blinders eventually come off.   Fair Education Santa Barbara and our courageous supporters succeeded in educating a reluctant and often hostile community on the dangers of JCCC.   Thank you to each of you who contributed,  spoke up at school board meetings,  wrote letters to the editors, and stood with us, shoulder to shoulder, against the destructive and now defunct JCCC.   We are the champions, my friends.   The Board of Fair Education Santa Barbara.  Please consider supporting Fair Education Santa Barbara financially by clicking the link below.   All contributions are greatly appreciated.  If you would prefer to make a donation by check, please make checks payable to: Fair Education Santa Barbara 1180 Eugenia Place, Suite 220 Carpinteria, CA 93013-2000   Fair Education Santa Barbara is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation formed by concerned citizens to advocate for Santa Barbara’s children, students, and teachers in the District’s government-funded schools and colleges. More information about Fair Education Santa Barbara can be found at www.faireducation.org.   Join us on our closed Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/277208766250704   Brief Background of Fair Education In late 2018,  a group of Santa Barbara parents had become concerned that a divisive curriculum was being concealed from them.   Rather than engage in “show and tell” with this taxpayer funded curriculum, the District engaged in “hide and seek”.  Parents were told multiple times “NO”, when they requested documents describing the curriculum, and that it was simply too nuanced to be shared with the general public.   Santa Barbara’s parents were left with no choice.  They sued to bring this curriculum to light.  Joined by educators and community members, Fair Education Santa Barbara, a California non-profit, was formed.   Fair Education’s mission was and is to ensure that public education funds are spent so that each and every student receives the knowledge, critical thinking skills and character to succeed (www.faireducation.org).   Fair Education is comprised of old-school dreamers who believe in the content of character, not the color of skin.  Unlike the radical school District, Fair Education subscribes to:  Diversity of Thought, Equality of Opportunity, and Inclusivity for all. Fair Education believes that every child is important and that all children should be educated to their highest, not lowest, individual potential.  By their conduct, Fair Education’s adversaries in the lawsuit appear to believe just the opposite of all of the above.