More Bad Teachers of Torrance: South High's Nicole Parsons and Jill Calbi

 I received another tip from a Torrance Unified Parent last week:

Hi! Back-to-school night at South High last week was once again another LGBTQ nightmare.

This is the South High's drama teacher's classroom with the larger than life flag, and the Transgender girl with a mustache is promoting the school's controversial play, “Twelfth Night”, also promoting homosexual ways… can you please publish this again, letting parents know this is still happening?

                

Why is a teacher pushing "LGBT" instead of the American Flag? Nicole Parsons should be teaching drama, not trauma.

Nicole Parsons

Since when did South High think that an LGBT militant was the main job of a drama teacher. Granted, Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is about a young lady who pretends to be a man to woo the love of a woman for a man, who ends up falling in love with the woman who is pretending to be a man. But at least Shakespeare understood that there were two sexes, and everything else was comedy or crazy.

And there's more at South High:

Other classrooms have this sticker on the outside of their classroom windows and plenty more rainbow flags than American flags.

This "safe space" sign was in AP Psychology Teacher Jill Calbi's classroom.

If this is the psychology teacher, then the psychology profession is doomed. The last person who should be teaching psychology anything is a creepy adult wanting to normalize homosexuality and transgenderism in children.

Since when did Torrance parents begin tolerating any of this?!

LGBT is not about "Safe Space" anything.

There is nothing safe about inducing, or rather seducing, children into unsafe practices, all under the dishonest guise of civil rights.

What is going on in Torrance Unified?

Teachers are supposed to teach, not indoctrinate or abuse kids.

Anyone who promotes LGBT to kids is abusing kids. All this talk about "being an ally" or "protecting the LGBT community" is really about a bunch of sick adults who want to play white knight, against like agents for some kind of civil rights movement, when in reality they are hurting kids, pushing lies, and undermining parents.

Please report these teachers to the Torrance Unified School Board, and demand:

1. The teachers take down their LGBT propaganda.

2. Direct the administrators to review their lesson plans and programs.

3. Write up the teachers and place them on leave for violating President Trump's executive orders regarding bans on gender indoctrination in the classroom.

4. Call for their firings of these teachers. Any adult who thinks that pushing LGBT on kids is normal has no business being around children.

Dr. Anil Muhammed

President / Trustee Area A

• 213-293-5089
• muhammed.anil@tusd.org

Betty Lieu, Esq.

Vice President / Trustee Area D

• 213-820-8862
• lieu.betty@tusd.org

James Han

Clerk / Trustee Area C

• 213-447-1187
• han.james@tusd.org

Dave Zygielbaum

Member / Trustee Area E

• Zygielbaum.dave@tusd.org

Jasmine Park

Member / Trustee Area B

• park.jasmine@tusd.org

Torrance School Board Debate, 2024: Very Disappointing

On October 11, 2024, The Torrance-area League of Women Voters hosted a debate for the school board candidates running to replace Jeremy Gerson (who was elected to the city council) as well as for the two candidates running for state assembly.

I was really surprised to hear about this. Last year, Al Muratsuchi didn't bother debating George Barks for the state assembly seat. I assumed he would just ignore Barks again and "coast" to re-election. However, there is a growing unease among Democrats across the country, including in California, so it seems.

Not only that, but it seemed as though there was very little notice for this debate. Normally, I am pretty well on top of information like this. Someone in Hermosa Beach had to inform me about this debate, and it was only the day before!

Why are Democrats like Al Muratsuchi participating in debates? Adam Schiff debated Steve Garvey, as well. Are things more competitive on the ground than I had realized?

California is a battleground state, at least as far as the Congressional races are concerned. Kamala Harris is not as popular as people think she is, and she is bleeding support with key Democratic demographics. Add to that the fact that the California Democratic state legislative supermajority basically defied and dismissed the Black Supremacist movement and rejected all the major reparations legislation this past session ... and Democrats are feeling nervous!

Before I talk about the state assembly debate, I want to comment on the school board debate for Trustee Area E. David Zygielbaum, Tony Yeh, and Charles Deemer are all running to replace Jeremy.

Tony Yeh

That debate was ... disappointing.

It's clear that Zygielbaum is the establishment favorite, based on all the endorsements has has racked him, which he repeated at length. He spent so much time talking about his endorsements, including from the hostile Torrance Teachers Association, that he failed to answer a significant question: how did he feel about California AG Rob Bonta's lawsuit against Chino Valley Unified School District regarding their transparency policy about student identity issues?

Dave Zygielbaum

He refused to answer the question, but dodged with the empty pablum about making schools "Welcoming for all students."

Of course, how can a school be welcoming for anyone if biological males are using female facilities on a campus? He also dismissed that concern as a "national issue," even though candidate Tony Yeh clearly addressed the issue, and that parents in the district were raising alarms about this issue.

Charles Deemer

I will add, however, that Yeh spent so much time focusing on the transgenderism problems in the school district, that he spent very little time explaining anything else. Yes, I am glad that he wants children to be safe, and I am really pleased that he directly answered the question about Rob Bonta. On the other hand, I was really unhappy with the lack of preparation or attention to school issues evinced by the candidates, aside from Zygielbaum.

 Charles Deemer may be a perennial candidate, but he sure didn't act like one tonight. He seemed unsure of his answers, or unfamiliar with the school district. He actually said that he would visit all the schools in his trustee area if he gets elected. Zygielbaum boasted that he had already visited the schools and the principals (and the teachers union--can't forget that!), and Yeh informed the audience that he had spoken with parents about issues with the school district.

Zygielbaum was certainly polished and prepared in his presentation. The only problem is that he wants to keep the status quo of moral lassitude in our schools. He is not a leader. He will just do whatever the teachers unions tell him to do. That's that basic trend in Torrance: people line up behind the person with all the big name endorsements, and hope that he won't make any noise or any real improvements.

And another issue about endorsements ...

Tony Yeh shared that he was endorsed by the Torrance Police Officers Association. Then Dave Zygielbaum countered and contradicted him, stating that since both of them had been endorsed by the TPOA in the city council elections in previous years, that neither one of them was endorsed. I followed up with the TPOA after the debate tonight, and I am waiting for them to get back to me about this controversy.

All in all, the candidates seemed either very polished (and fake) or unprepared or unfocused: a very disappointing debate.

TUSD Update: Latest Info on Teacher Staffing Numbers

I recently wrote to the Torrance Unified School District asking for updated information on the teacher count in the district.

Here's the FOIA request that I submitted to the chief Business Officer Keith Butler:

Dr. Butler:

I just wanted to get some statistics:

1. How many teachers are currently employed by Torrance Unified School District? 
2. How many teachers were employed as of the final day of instruction for years 2017 through 2022?
3. How many current teacher vacancies are extant in the district?

Here's the answer I received:

Hello--the data we have available is:

How many teachers are currently employed by Torrance Unified School District?
1,114 teaching positions, 1,080 active positions (when accounting for employees on leaves of absence)

How many teachers were employed as of the final day of instruction for years 2017 through 2022?
We cannot run reports for prior years, so we have to pull from existing snapshots on file. We pulled numbers from reports we had recorded that were closest to the last day of instruction. Note - these are total positions and do not account for employees on leaves of absence.

10/3/17- 1,017
5/14/18 - 1,144
6/10/19 - 1,155
4/13/20 - 1,145
4/27/21 - 1,124

How many current teacher vacancies are extant in the district?
Total is 8.4

A few initial observations:

The number of teachers is declining somewhat.

The current number is doing down, closer to the lower numbers in 2017.

More information to follow.

More West Torrance High School Weirdness: LGBT Inclusion Sheet Passed Around to the Teachers

 For the last three weeks, I have been getting tips and more complaints about what is happening in Torranec schools.

Parents, students, and everyone in between is letting me know that teachers are pushing the whole LGBT indoctrination with full force into the public school setting.

The latest tip is a "Student Inclusion" worksheet passed around in West High School with a whole bunch of LGBT terms. Two pages of LGBT confusion, indoctrination, grooming, and outright nonsense is circulating around at West High School.

A parent shared with this me, and another resident informed me that this was a "teacher initiated" program, not necessarily something from the official school administration. Still, why is this permitted to circulate in the first place? Do we really need more grooming, indoctrination, and abuse in the government school system?

Torrance is (suppoed to be) better than this.

What is the teaher all about including, anyway? Sexual confusion and degeneracy. And people wonder why California students are falling far, far behind:

Here's the introdutory paragraph at the top of the sheet:

We'd like to thank you for letting us inform you of some of the things we'd like to see change [sic] at West. We hope this will help every student feel comfortable, safe, included, seen, accepted, and supported in your classroom. As teachers, you have the power to make this possible for all of us.

Here is [sic] some vocabulary terms asd [sic] well as some key themes that we feel would be helpful for you:

First of all, I am struck by the bad grammar and spelling. Do any of the teachers at West High School use spell-check? Do they even bother to edit their writing?

Here's a close-up of all the columns:

I don't see the word "abuse" on this page, but that's perhaps because the whole page is abuse.

I also don't see the word "grooming" or "indoctrination," but once again that's only due to the fact that that the whole page is dedicated to grooming and indoctrination.

And there's a second page:

And here's a close-up of the content on page two:

Some vocabulary that is not included: straight, heterosexual, traditional marriage.

So much for being inclusive ...

The text at the bottom of the page may be hard to read:

Here are the More important notes written out in full:

• It's always okay to ask if you forget (pronouns, names, labels, matters of privacy, etc) but please ask privately
• What if you mess up? - Simply and quickly correct yourself. You can repeat the sentence with the right name and/or pronoun set and move on.
• Chance to inclusive language - Instead of "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls" you can say "everyone", "folks" etc so that every student feels included and seen -- Instead of repeating "he or she" "him or her" "his or hers" you can use the pronoun set of "they", "them," and "their(s)"
• Privacy is important - Some students do not want this personal information to be shared for their own social, emotional, and/or physical safety -- Do not share private things such as chosen names, pronouns, sexuality, and gender to others (students, staff, guardians, etc) wihtout the students' permission -- If you forget or arent' sure what is and isn't private, it doesn't hurt to ask and clarify with the student in private
• Putting in the effort will be worth it in the end to make your students feel safe, and your effort is always appreciated.

It is really, really disturbing the length to which this teacher is urging other teachers to stress secrecy, privacy, even deception with the students and against the parents.

This is beyond alarming, and completely unacceptable. Adolescents are already prone to confusion and challenges to their identity, and now we have teachers that are actively encouraging this confusion and abuse.

It's time to stand for truth. It's time to put a stop to this abuse!

Contact the West High School Administration, and demand an investigation and an end to this perverse indoctrination:

Principal: Jenna Murata

Phone: (310) 533-4299 x7681

Email: murata.jenna@tusd.org

 

Assistant Principals:

Ian Eddy

Phone: (310) 533-4299 x7691

Email: eddy.ian@tusd.org

Michaele Scheerle

Phone: (310) 533-4299 x7701

Email: scheerle.Michaele@tusd.org

Eric Spotts

Phone: (310)533-4299 x7692

Email: spotts.eric@tusd.org

Also contact the Torrance Unified School Board:

Jeremy L. Gerson

310-729-3688

Gerson.Jeremy@tusd.org

 

James Han

213-447-1187

han.james@tusd.org

 

Jasmine Park

park.jasmine@tusd.org

 

Betty Lieu

213-820-8862

lieu.betty@tusd.org

 

Anil Muhammad

213-293-5089

muhammed.anil@tusd.org

TUSD Fail: Sara Pearlman Strikes Again, Pushing LGBT on Kids

Sara Pearlman Strikes Again

When does the grooming stop?!

The Torrance Unified school year has started up again, and already parents are complaining about Sara Pearlman, English teacher at Richardson Middle School.

Here are the latest remarks I read in the Torrance Community Concerns Facebook group:

1. Pearlman has 17 LGBT flags posted in her classroom, all representing the 17 students which she helped "come out."

2. Pearlman does not allow students to go into her classroom during "Back to School Night." I wonder what she is hiding ...

Of course, there's a lot of other crazy staff that has been happening in her classroom, too. She is a clear example of a rabid SJW politicizing her classroom and indoctrinating students.

Here's a reminder of the crap that she has been pushing in her classroom, based on what parents have told me over the last two years:

1.            She has a “Bad Cop, No Donut” poster in her class

2.            She has placed LGBT flags in classroom, promoting sexual perversion

3.            She is pushing destructive Critical Race/Gender Theory

4.            She sponsors the harmful “Gay-Straight Alliance” program on campus

If you have anything else to report, please feel free to contact me: (781) 474-3005.

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.

Torrance High School Teachers: Preferred Pronouns and "There Are Too Many White People"

Two months, I spoke with a student named W. G. (name hidden to protect his identity and his family.)

He shared with me about another bad teacher in Torrance Unified School District.

W.G. reported the following:

"An art teacher [Aja De La Rosa] wanted you to write your pronouns on a piece of paper."

Teachers are now asking for students' preferred pronouns. Really!

"And then she was sharing personal stories about herself, about her daughter was transitioning gender at a very young age. Her daughter wanted to become a male."

Why are teachers sharing this stuff with their students in the classroom? Why is this happening at Torrance High School.

Then W.G. told us about his English teacher:

Her name is Marianne Pignotti:

W.G. then had this to share:

"Then there was my English teacher. She had six poster boards. Each poster board had another poster board behind it. So they weren't exactly put on the walls. She then, out of the blue, started talking about these posters, and she pulls them out. And she's apologizing because they're all white males."

WHAT?!

"And I promise you, not a single student in that classroom looked at her posters, and said 'Oh Wow! They're all white.' That wasn't even a thought until she brought it up."

So, Pignotti is pushing racism in her classroom, specifically anti-white racism. There is no room for such bigotry in the classroom. NONE!

"She then said that Hollywood needs to start making movies with more people of color. And I'm thinking to myself: 'Hey! I am a fan of "Fast and Furious." And I know the main character, Dom, is not fully white. And I never personally thought, "Hey, I wonder what race that guy is."'"

This is the kind of bigotry and hate which has become commonplace in government schools, and this is not Los Angeles Unified or San Francisco.

This kind of hateful indoctrination is taking place in Torrance Unified, too! This is outrageous!

For the entire interview that I conducted with this student, see the link below:

 

 Here's the contact information for the two teachers:

Marianna Pignotti

• 310-533-4396 x8008
• pignotti.marianna@tusd.org

Aja De La Rosa

• 310-533-4396 x8069
• delarosa.aja@tusd.org

TUSD Fail: More LGBT-CRT Indoctrination at Richardson Middle School from Sara Pearlman

I just received yet another note about Sara Pearlman, the LGBT-CRT activist disguised as a teacher at Richardson Middle School in Torrance, CA:

Here's the note I received from the parent:

Remember that write up you did on Ms. Pearlman who has the "Bad Cop, no donut" sticker in her classroom? [Here's the link if you missed that post].

Well, she is still at it. She is indoctrinating our children @ Richardson. Daily she requires students to write/discuss about equality, gender rights and sexual preferences with our youth. She still flies 2 flags in her classroom, one is for LBGTQ and the other is gay pride. 

Here are her back-to-school slides to share as well, proving her indoctrination even at the parent level. 

Also, check out her Amazon book "wishlist":

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/755BEOZ0DJVN?ref_=wl_share

Here's a sample of the books that she wants to read:

Opposition to natural law and national borders:

Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

by Patrice Vecchione, Alyssa Raymond (Paperback)

4.6 out of 5 stars 102

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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

by Sara Saedi (Paperback)

4.5 out of 5 stars 218

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64 Used & New  from $1.55

Books celebrating mental illness and angst:

The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary

by NoNieqa Ramos (Paperback)

4.7 out of 5 stars 66

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Racist Authors

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

by Trevor Noah (Paperback)

4.7 out of 5 stars 2,285

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Price dropped 12%  (was $7.99 when added to List)

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Celebration of Violence and Crime:

Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

by Karen Blumenthal (Hardcover)

4.7 out of 5 stars 82

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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century

by Sarah Miller (Paperback)

4.5 out of 5 stars 367

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38 Used & New  from $3.50

(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

by Kelly Jensen (Paperback)

4.6 out of 5 stars 142

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With Pearlman, it only gets worse.

She is the club sponsor of the "Gay Straight Alliance" at the campus. We are talking about a Middle School! This subject matter has no business being pushed on kids at any grade level, and what's worse is that middle school children are considerably more doubtful, confused about their identity at this age, including their place in the world. Issues relating to sexuality have no place in the classroom, or even in an extra-curricular club.

It's becoming increasingly clear to parents in Torrance Unified that teachers like Sara Pearlman want to push a destructive agenda, rather than simply teacher English. Teachers in the K-12 system want to bring the cultural and moral degradation of the University system into the government-school classroom. These abuses need to stop. She needs to go.

Torrance Unified School District needs to do a better job of vetting the teachers whom they allow in the classroom.

And we need to demand reforms and better staff in the classroom for the students.

Contact Richardson Middle School:

Address: 23751 Nancylee Ln, Torrance, CA 90505
Phone: (310) 533-4790

Contact the Principal:

Tayo Balogun:

Phone: (310) 533-4790 x8980

Email: balogun.tayo@tusd.org

Contact the School Board, too:

School Board Members

Jeremy L. Gerson

310-729-3688

Gerson.Jeremy@tusd.org                                                                        

James Han

213-447-1187

han.james@tusd.org

Personal: JamesHan@msn.com

Jasmine Park

park.jasmine@tusd.org

Personal: JASMINE.PARK92@GMAIL.COM                           

Betty Lieu

213-820-8862

lieu.betty@tusd.org

Personal: chimlieu@msn.com

Anil Muhammed

213-293-5089

muhammed.anil@tusd.org

                                              

Superintendent—Timothy Stowe

310-972-6001

stowe.tim@tusd.org