Statement to Torrance USD School Board

Finally, the masks have come off … the students. But the sinister plot that allowed this systemic child abuse to continue unabated has not been dealt with properly. Until the Torrance School Board issues a firm resolution to disregard these outrageous mandates in the future, and passes a “mask and vaccine choice” regime, the students and parents in this district will have no assurance that their children’s health will remain safe and free from unwanted mandates.

I have received more calls and complaints from parents in the district, this time from Hull Middle School. Mrs. Shawnda Leander is pushing her own version of Critical Racist Theory, saying hateful things like “mostly all white people are bad, except for me of course” and “All black people are good.” Such broad statements are true testimonies to systemic racism in our schools. It’s not in our kids, it’s not in people’s skin color. Frankly, where do these teachers get these terrible ideas from in the first place? That needs to be investigated.

While many parents have been rightfully outraged with the unconscionable health mandates imposed on their children, they are now shifting their focus back to the divisive and inaccurate curriculum and viewpoint discrimination taking place in Torrance classrooms. I have already shared with this board about teachers promoting hate groups like Black Lives Matter and the Human Rights Campaign, dedicated to normalizing political violence and sexual perversion on impressionable minds trapped in classrooms as a captive audience. When will these practices cease? Schools should be safe spaces, yes, for ALL students, not just a select group or one viewpoint.

To this day, I have not year hear from Director Ben Egan or Superintendent Stowe regarding the new policies that will ensure that schools, staff, and district personnel will no longer misuse school and school district labels and logos to push a personal or political agenda, and especially at the expense or in spite of the concern or disagreement of students or parents. When will this policy be made public, Dr. Egan and Dr. Stowe?

Trustee Gerson contacted me after the previous meeting regarding the current relationship between the California and the National School Boards Associations. I understand that the voting member from the NSBA has had their voting status stripped. That move is not enough. There is no rectifying the fact that NSBA issued a letter to Joe Biden urging him to direct the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute parents who were merely exercising their First Amendment rights in school board meeetings across the country. The NSBA referred to righteously outraged parents as “domestic terrorists” simply because they wanted to protect their children from Critical Racist Theory and LGBT indoctrination in the classroom, along with the unhealthy health mandates.

There is no excuse for any organization defaming parents as “domestic terrorists” for doing their jobs to protect their children. I am urging this board, this board’s CSBA representative to press for the California School Board Association’s complete disaffiliation with the NSBA. This is not a partisan matter, since red and blue states have disaffiliated from that terrible organization. MassResistance assisted parents with pressuring three state school boards associations from leaving the NSBA this year already.

Last of all, I hope that all parents in Torrance Unified, as well as across the state of California, understand that the fight is not over when it comes to ensure that their local school boards remain accountable to them. Ending the mask mandates was one step, but now more than ever it’s time for curricular and personnel oversight like never before.

MassResistance Chapter Leaders Pressure State School Boards Association to Leave NSBA

MassResistance chapters in three states successfully forced their state to exit from odious National School Boards Association (NSBA).

Prompted by NSBA’s infamous letter to Joe Biden labeling concerned parents as “domestic terrorists.”

Grassroots pressure finally pushes hesitant public officials.

March 18, 2022

 Outraged parents organized by California MassResistance at their School Board meeting in Anaheim, CA.

In September 2021, headlines across America spotlighted a letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to Joe Biden.

The letter was a hysterical reaction against parents across the country who had gone to their local School Board meetings to express outrage over “Critical Race Theory” indoctrination, COVID lockdowns, and the “transgender” agenda being pushed into their children’s classrooms.

The NSBA letter labeled the outspoken parents “domestic terrorists.” It accused them of bringing “extremist hate,” “threats,” and “acts of violence” against School Board members at the meetings. The NSBA implored Biden to direct the FBI, US Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies to coordinate and direct their energies against this “crisis affecting America’s public schools.” This grandiose act was clearly meant to intimidate and silence any meaningful dissent.

Background – What was behind this excessive reaction?

Originally, the state school boards associations were set up to lobby state legislatures on behalf of the local school boards – and the public – to fortify the public schools. It was a counter to the lobbying arm of the state teachers’ unions. The National School Boards Association was set up to lobby Congress, countering the national teachers unions’ and the federal Dept. of Education.

But in recent decades, both the state and national school boards associations have become what the American Library Association is to libraries: an organized force to push hard-left ideology. The associations stand in opposition to most parents and propagandize local school board members. They push all the latest leftist ideologies through their recommended policies and training sessions. Their lobbying efforts are now very similar to the teachers’ unions.

State associations pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues and other fees to the NSBA each year.

Parents across America react to the NSBA letter

Parents across America were furious about NSBA’s letter and let their local public officials know it. A number of state school associations issued letters distancing themselves from the NSBA letter. Within three months, 19 state organizations broke away from the NSBA entirely.

But after the initial surge of states breaking away, other states dragged their feet on taking any substantive action.

MassResistance gets involved

In December 2021, our Organization Director Arthur Schaper met with chapter leaders of several of our state MassResistance groups. Our Arizona leader said that more needed to be done about the NSBA’s action against parents. The leaders decided to concentrate on eleven states to generate grassroots pressure to force their break from the NSBA.

When first contacted, some of those state school board associations responded positively, some negatively, and some not at all.

We were most surprised when a member of the Texas Association of School Boards had a long (and very disturbing) discussion with Arthur Schaper defending Critical Race Theory and the “need” to push it on young children.

On the other hand, the executive director of the Nebraska Association of School Boards told Arthur, “We want to meet with parents and work this out.” It was a good start.

But we kept pushing hard. By late February – after just two months – our efforts helped get three states to leave the NSBA:

Idaho

On Oct. 13, 2021 (two weeks after the NSBA letter), the Idaho School Boards Association (ISBA) wrote a letter somewhat distancing itself from the NSBA. (But it still echoed the NSBA’s obnoxious rhetoric, called out “the disruptive and – at times, frightening – behavior that has shown up in school board meetings in Idaho and across the country.”)

Then on Oct. 26, 35 Idaho state legislators signed a letter urging the state association to break away.

But nothing was happening, so Idaho MassResistance began contacting the ISBA. On Oct. 28, the Deputy Director of the ISBA sent an email responding to one of our Idaho MassResistance activists and Arthur Schaper. He said that the ISBA intended to continue to work with the NSBA – “to make NSBA better and to ensure our national association continues to represent states like ours.”

Idaho MassResistance activists across the state got to work. They appealed to their local School Board members to contact the ISBA and also repeatedly contacted the ISBA themselves – demanding that they sever ties with the national organization.

The pressure worked! On February 21, 2022, the ISBA announced that they were severing ties with the NSBA!

Arizona

In December, at least one Arizona school district voted to leave its state association, the Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA), because it continued to be a member of the NSBA. According to news reports, the ASBA had insisted that the NSBA “had apologized” for the letter and so it was not necessary to sever ties.

Our Arizona MassResistance group contacted the fiery parents group in the Vail Unified School District, and together they conducted a vigorous campaign to get the ASBA to change its mind. On Feb. 16, the ASBA announced they were quitting the NSBA.

While ASBA has left the NSBA, the we’re still monitoring them for bad policies disseminated to its local school boards. For instance, see its webinar, The State of LGBTQ Education in Arizona (2019, still posted). Furthermore, much of the content sent onto the local school boards is hidden from the general public; that needs to change.

West Virginia

The West Virginia School Board Association (WVSBA) was dragging its feet, apparently hoping the issue would go away. Starting in December 2021, our West Virginia MassResistance chapter began contacting the WVSBA, demanding that they leave the NSBA.

It definitely got their attention! On February 26, we received this email from our WV Chapter leader:

Yesterday, I received another letter from Gus Penix, who is president-elect of WVSBA. In the letter he wrote, "I am writing in response to your communication dated Jan. 28, regarding the WV School Board Association's (WVSBA) affiliation with the NSBA. On Saturday, Feb. 19, at our Delegate Assembly meeting in Charleston, the WVSBA voted to disaffiliate from the NSBA."

The WVSBA website confirms: “Delegates to the West Virginia School Board Association FY23 Annual Business Meeting (ABM) voted unanimously February 19, 2022, not to join the National School Boards Association in FY23.” 

More to come!

We are still working hard on Nebraska, Delaware, New Jersey, and other states.

Final thoughts

These victories are long overdue – and just the beginning of the work that needs to be done. It’s time for every state school board association to disaffiliate from NSBA, or for local school boards to resign from their state groups if they do not!

But whether or not a state school board association has cut ties with the national association, citizens still need to be closely monitor it. Many of these associations (even in “conservative” states) are still pushing the LGBT and CRT agendas to their local school boards!

In early 2020, MassResistance drafted an expansive exposé on the national and state school board associations, which unfortunately we didn’t get around to publishing. Given the current circumstances, we plan to update it and publish it soon.

   

Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!

Our successes depend on people like you.

Donate to MassResistance

Your support will make the difference!

Torrance Unified School District: I am Naming Names (Statement at November 8, 2021 TUSD Board Meeting)

Dear Torrance Unified School District Board:

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Organization Director for MassResistance.

For over a year, I have been working with parents here in Torrance Unified, as well as parents in different school districts throughout the state of California and across the US.

Here in Torrance, however, we have exposed Black Lives Matter and LGBT propaganda in the classroom and in the several schools here in the district.

Parents have shared with me horrible stories of teachers who whine about their “white privilege,” harming the students in their class with this push of false identity politics.

Teachers like Sara Pearlman at Richardson Middle School have set up so-called “Gay Straight Alliances,” pushing all kinds of sexual perversion on students, many of whom at that age are already dealing with a great degree of confusion, transition, and turmoil.

Teachers like Margaret Cunningham promote hate groups like “The Human Rights Campaign,” whose leadership included a man charged with sexual battery against minors, and the previous president was forced to resign after coaching disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo how to cover up his sexual misconduct against staffers in his office.

Marianne Pignotti of Torrance High School actually said that there were “Too many white people” on some of the posters in her classroom on the first day of school. What kind of bigotry are we allowing these teachers to push on students today?

You have teachers like Junius Welch and Nicholas Weber at West High School also pushed BLM ideological talking points in their classroom, as well.

I am further disturbed to find out that disgraced former superintendent Luvelle Brown and his Critical Race Theory racket is coming to Torrance High School later this week. How much is the school district paying these overheated consultants to stand around and tell teachers and students that they are racist or they oppressed simply on account of their skin color?

Yes, I am naming names. It’s time for Torrance Unified School District to do its job and start crafting some serious policies to deal with this massive problem.

Trustee Gerson and Superintendent Stowe informed me in the past that they were crafting a policy to ensure that no student or teacher ever misused an official logo within the Torrance Unified universe. How about some clear policies which crack down on rank, brazen politicization in the classroom? This is not a freedom of speech issue. Students in a classroom are a captive audience. They do not have the freedom to walk out or object when teachers are pushing their own program or their own agendas.

Furthemore, normalizing hateful ideologies like the LGBT agenda or the Black Lives Matter should be strictly banned. If teachers want to create a set of activists to push these harmful programs, they should go work for an advocacy group or some other non-profit.

They have no business normalizing sexual perversion as a civil right.

They have no right implementing systemic racism, all under the petty pretense of trying to eradicate systemic racism.

Open Letter to Easy Reader News Re: Attacks on Manhattan Beach Unified School Board

Dear Easy Reader News:

The article on "Critical Race Theory" and the attack on the school districts and school boards could not have been more biased ("Critical Race Theory fears lead to attack on Manhattan Beach School Board," October 21, 2021).

Parents in Manhattan Beach California, and throughout the United States, do not want lies being pushed on their kids, simple as that. Just because an official program called "Critical Race Theory" is not being trotted around in a district does not mean that those lies are not being taught in the classroom. Teaching children to view people as either "oppressors" or "oppressed" is all part of Critical Race Theory, and Christopher Rufo has rightly exposed that not only are these pernicious views invading the classrooms in California, but teachers' unions and educrats alike are changing the names so they can get away with it.

Parents in Manhattan Beach have a right and a duty to ensure that their underage children are not taught all kinds of sexual deviance and perversion under the guise of "diversity, equity, and inclusion," either. Since when does any adult think that it is appropriate to push sexual preferences as an identity, and furthermore to induce this confusion onto children, whether during the classroom or in extracurricular clubs like Gender-Sexuality Alliance, or Gay-Straight Alliance, or Gender-Sexuality Acceptance clubs?!

Frankly, parents like Fred Taylor should be commended for calling out the corrupt indoctrination that is happening in Manhattan Beach Unified School District. I personally have read the Marxist dog whistles pushed under the guise of "tolerance" by the previous Superintendent and other tteachers in the Manhattan Beach schools. Staff members in the district have been telling me about this indoctrination, but are afraid to speak up, for fear they will lose their jobs.

Furthermore, if school board members like Jen Fenton and union reps like Shawn Chen cannot stand criticism and outrage from parents, they should start listening to the parents and following their demands -- or quit. I am disgusted that a local newspaper spent more time pandering and propping up the "Powers that Be." Journalism used to be about holding elected officials accountable and giving voice to the concerns of the voters. Indeed, Easy Reader News' journalism has really fallen in quality and character. No one wonder fewer people are purchasing subscriptions.

Last of all, what I find truly appalling about the "Easy Reader News" article is that they went out of their way to defame the parents with so-called "alt right" groups, but neglected to mention that MB School Board member Jason Boxer is a member of a dangerous hate group called "the Democratic Socialists of America." Socialism is just one step behind Communism, as the violent Soviet Communist leader Vladmir Lenin asserted, and Communism is one of the most evil, hateful ideologies in the world. Sadly, Manhattan Beach Unified has a socialist on its school board now! Why did Easy Reader News leave that out?

Manhattan Beach School Board Member Jason Boxer: Closet Communist

The voters of Manhattan Beach Unified School District need to start paying attention to who ends up on their school board.

Easy Reader News published a very slanted, biased article blasting parents and propping up the school board members because of the growing outrage against school closures, lockdowns, and LGBT-CRT indoctrination in the classrooms.

One of the most noxious facts that they left out of their report is that Jason Boxer, one of the newly-elected school board members, is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The first thing that comes to mind when I see this profile?

Oh brother! Imagine Barack Obama's "Pajama Boy" with lighter hair, and that's Jason Boxer.

But it gets worse ... much worse.

He's one of the "non-binary" types, and he pushes the LGBT agenda in so many destructive waves. You can see his destructive LGBT promotionalism on his Instagram account. Click here.

Ironically, he prefers "they/them" pronouns, according to his bio, but he also calls himself "a pretty nice guy."

Check it out here:

How can he claim to be non-binary but still call himself a "guy"? Clearly, he is confused.

And confused people should not be in charge of young people's education.

But the worst aspect about his tenure on the school board, again, is that he is a card-carrying socialist.

Don't take my word for it. Check out the DSA-LA website (Click here):

In addition to our endorsed candidates, we also celebrate the victories won by progressive candidates throughout the city, county, state, and country, both DSA-endorsed and otherwise. Locally, these include Jason Boxer for Manhattan Beach Unified School Board.

What do you need to know about socialism?

Take from Soviet Communist Vladimir Lenin himself:

Here are some statistics about Communism, for the growing number of uneducated or miseducated in the world:

How about hearing the testimonies of men and women who survived communist regimes?

Why were there so many "boat people" fleeing Southeast Asia in the 1970s? Communism!

Manhattan Beach residents need to pay attention to their school board races. Perhaps they need to think about launching a recall as soon as possible to get rid of this creepy soyboy.

It is unconscionable how bad it has gotten in local education politics in the South Bay. Card-carrying communists (masquerading as socialists) are seated on local school boards pushing all kinds of perversion under the guise of "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion", etc.

Instead of educating children about the true, full history of the United States, there is a determined push by ingrained Marxists and their teachers' union ilk to push racism and class-ism to further divide communities and the country.

Communism is one of the evilest ideologies in modern history, and to think that today, there are elected officials pushing this wicked madness is just unthinkable, and in the South Bay of Los Angeles County, no less.

Has Jason Boxer ever visited a country run under a communist regime? Cuba? Venezuela? North Korea? Would he like to explain why so many of the citizens in those countries are fleeing those countries to live elsewhere? Would Mr. Boxer (yes, Mister!) like to explain why Communism leaves nothing but destruction and desecration in its wake wherever it pops up?

He owes the people of Manhattan Beach some answers, at the very least.

He is pushing LGBT perversion. Why?

He is pushing Marxist hate. Why?

He does not listen or care about the real concerns of parents and children alike. Why?

Jason Boxer, the Closet Communist, needs to answer for these hateful leanings!

Contact the Manhattan Beach School Board, and demand Jason Boxer's removal!

jfenton@mbusd.org

speel@mbusd.org

jcochran@mbusd.org

cgraves@mbusd.org

jboxer@mbusd.org

Texas MassResistance SCORCHES School Board Over LGBT and CRT Promotion

 

Texas MassResistance Asst. Director scorches officials at his local School Board meeting over Critical Race Theory and the LGBT agenda!

Parents cheer him, but cowardly officials have police remove him after he finishes speaking.

Calling out a left-wing School Board in a conservative Texas town! (See video clip.)

August 27, 2021

VIDEO: Kevin Whitt scorches local school board (3 min 44 sec)

Lately we’ve all been seeing viral videos of parents standing up and berating their local School Board over their teaching of Critical Race Theory (and other depravities in the schools). When it comes to that kind of confrontation, nobody does it quite like MassResistance!

Our Texas MassResistance Assistant Director, Kevin Whitt, lives in Frisco, Texas (a northern suburb of Dallas). Like many places that are relatively conservative, it appears that leftists (who often campaign as conservatives) have managed to get elected to the local School Board (known as the "Board of Trustees") – and are allowing the latest radical agendas to be brought into the schools. Unfortunately, too often the town doesn’t angrily lash back, and the situation only gets worse.

On June 14, 2021, Kevin (who has personally been harmed by the LGBT movement) came to the School Board meeting along with local parents. He definitely got the Board’s attention! He scorched them over the outrages they’re allowing. After he sat down, the parents cheered. But the sleazy (and cowardly) officials had the police come up and surround Kevin and remove him from the room.

 Kevin Whitt (bottom left) begins to speak to the Frisco TX District School Board. They clearly didn't like what they heard!

Exposing the radical agendas

As we’ve observed before, the “diversity and inclusion” aspect of Critical Race Theory is invariably intertwined with the LGBT agenda. Thus, the high school librarian, who is also a high school teacher, is clearly promoting both agendas there.

And that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg.

 From an online bio of the high school librian / teacher.

 "White Privilege" material being used as part of the CRT curriculum.

 A nineth-grade assignment: Read several "woke" books, then complete a "reflection form," to "earn rewards."

School officials punish Kevin for speaking out

After Kevin finished speaking and sat down, one of the school officials had the police come up, surround him, and remove him out of the room. Several parents shouted, “Let him stay! Let him stay! There has been no crime committed!” Kevin at first said he would not leave, but after apparently being threatened with arrest, he relented.

 After Kevin was finished speaking and sat down, two police officers and a school board official came over and surrounded him.

Then they had the police issue Kevin an outrageous six-month “No Trespass Order” – to make sure he didn’t come back and testify again anytime soon. Kevin is a legal resident of that city, of course, and should have the right to complain to his public officials just like any other person.

The purpose is to send a fearsome message to the rest of the community – that they’d better not “misbehave” or they’ll be in some legal trouble.

Sadly, this offensive tactic is used regularly by School Boards across the country against local citizens who call them out (and make them too uncomfortable). Luckily, people are less intimidated than public officials would like.

 When Kevin got outside they handed him a six-month "no trespass" order.

Final thoughts

This is what people everywhere should be doing. Most conservatives don’t understand this.

It’s very important that school officials realize that pushing these twisted ideas on students is not a casual issue, but something that is extremely offensive to the community, and horribly damaging to young people. If good people don’t react as Kevin did – especially if folks try to carry on a “rational discussion” about it – the school officials won’t think we take their violations seriously. That’s been our experience over the past 25 years.

In other words, you absolutely need to get their attention! Thank you, Kevin, for showing how it should be done!

   

Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!

Our successes depend on people like you.

Donate to MassResistance

Your support will make the difference!