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A syllabus for a proposed ethnic literature class and the showing of a Childish Gambino music video in an English class were the focus of community scrutiny in the San Dieguito Union High School District this week, continuing a wider discussion over who gets a say in what is taught in classrooms.

Since the public became aware of critical race theory a few years ago, it’s subverted almost every aspect of America’s fabric.

In operative terms, CRT, a neo-Marxist dogma, reduces every interaction between individuals into a collectivist conflict, between the oppressor race (the guilty villain) and oppressed race (the righteous victim).

And the kids are not well.

A California school district’s parental notification policy won a preliminary victory in a California state court, when a Riverside County Superior Court judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction against it in a February 23 ruling (Mae M. v. Komrosky). The judge also declined to block a resolutionthat prohibited the teaching of certain concepts related to critical race theory (CRT).

An East Bay school district has prematurely terminated a $250,000 contract with a controversial abolitionist, anti-racist educational consulting vendor hired to train teachers.

Good evening board president, trustees and superintendent. My name is Lance Christensen, Vice President of the California Policy Center.

Adults – who should know better – telling kids to keep secrets from their parents, is why we’re here tonight. Regardless of my personal feelings, I’m not here to comment on the probity of children transitioning to anything. We are only here to talk about honesty being the best policy.

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling barring race-based college admissions decisions was a win for all students – including black students. Placing ill-prepared students in college and saddling them with debt, despair, and high dropout rates does not better their future.

As a gay parent, I am concerned.

The latest example: “CA Healthy Kids Survey” asks students, “Are you straight, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or something else?” Another page asks if kids are different from the sex they were assigned at birth (transgender).

Erin Friday’s daughter was introduced to gender identity ideology in a comprehensive sex-ed class in seventh grade. “The seed was planted after that class,” Friday says. “And in fact, all of her friends, there were five, sat in my front yard saying what their new labels were.”  Friday says she was “alarmed by the language that they were using, including 'pansexual,' which is not a term that 11-year-olds should know.”