They Lied, California’s ANTI-Parent Legislation

They LIED! They told you there was a law against notifying parents if a child of any age requests intervention to help socially transition genders at school. There was NO LAW.

Several School Boards across California called these lies what they were and courageously passed Parental Notification Policies to reestablish their Boards’ authority and sworn oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. School Board members do not swear an oath to blindly uphold California law; the law must first, actually exist and second, must be Constitutional.

Some School Board members who failed to even try and implement Parental Notification Policies after passing policy mandating secret keeping, are proponents of waiting for Judiciary to weigh in on the constitutionality of bad guidance and secret keeping which strips parents of their 14th Amendment rights and teachers of their 1st Amendment rights. What they failed to see is that they themselves passed regulations that were NEVER tied to law. Schools cannot keep secrets from parents.

For the last 8+ years, School Boards across California have been adopting the same California School Board Association’s (CSBA) Administrative Regulation 5145.3 (AR5145.3) which gave schools a false sense of security to implement secret social transitioning interventions. This regulation MANDATED all employees to immediately accept a child's assertion and begin to offer treatment such as pronoun and name changes, and alternative bathroom and locker room use- all with giving the CHILD the choice whether or not to include parents in the intervention.

Secret keeping policy AR5145.3 was adopted under false pretense perpetuated by the massively influential and monetized LOBBYING arms of the California School Boards Association (CSBA) and California Teachers Association (teachers union).

For the few somewhat hesitant members, Board council, the same one representing the majority of CA and Shasta County School Boards, stepped in with assurances that the law supported mandating secret record keeping in AR5145.3. Wordy legal memos citing inappropriate precedent were used to ensure its passing and dissuade subsequent Parental Notification Policies from seeing the light of day.

In lockstep and leading the charge to stop Shasta County School Boards from passing Parental Notification Policies (PNPs) and overturn secrecy policy AR5145.3, were local California Teachers Association (CTA) president, Shaye Stephens, CTA Board President, Mike Patterson, Regional CTA Representative, Sean Ferguson, CSBA Representative, Redding School Board member, and CSBA Delegate, Bruce Ross, NorCal Outreach donor, recent Shasta County Supervisor candidate, and former CSBA Rep, Suzanne Barremore, paid social media influencer and local Foreign Exchange Student advocate, Jessica French, and several local LGBTQ activist school counselors, teachers, and school “psychologists”.

During public comment at School Board meetings they misrepresented California Department of Ed Guidance and FAQs as law, calling PNPs unlawful "outing" policies. They lied about the existence of a law to support secrecy policy AR5145.3.

Armed with skewed stats and false causation of suicide risk, they lied to support AR5145.3's removal of due process from parents who have the right to be informed BEFORE a school INTERVENES and offers any treatment modality. Even misled and misinformed Student School Board Members at Shasta County Office of Education participated in the false narrative.

The issue isn't about the failure or success of a so-called affirming model of care, that's for parents to decide on their own, but how can they if they're not included? Simply put, schools cannot perform interventions without parents’ permission in any other area of education.

Fortunately 2022, brought in a new wave of School Board Members who saw through the lies of legislative lobbyists, union activists, special interest law groups, LGBTQ Youth activists, and unconstitutional regulations.

These newly energized School Board Members see through the incestuous nature of public education. They bravely stepped in and implemented new resolutions and policy to reestablish parents’ rights and prevent secret record keeping.

Parental Notification Policies (PNPs) began popping up in several CA School Districts. Even as Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit and denounced several School Boards, more bravely joined in.

Through an unconstitutional gut and amend process AB1955, was fast tracked with a vote count split down party lines. This proved there was never a law preventing such protections nor a law to justify School Boards passing secrecy policy AR5145.3.

When AB1955 goes into effect in January 2025, there will still be School Boards who will refuse to make parents obsolete in the lives of their children. They will continue to protect teachers, counselors, and administrators who are uncomfortable performing interventions without parent permission. This will make it to SCOTUS. Your rights will continue to be defended by School Boards who understand their Constitutional obligation to you, the one funding public education.

Remember, not everyone has the resources (monetary, emotional, or mental) to homeschool or use alternative sources of education. Until we build a better infrastructure and support system for ALL who want it, we have to fight back for those who can't. Public Education belongs to you, the American taxpayer, not teachers unions, school administrators, legislative lobbyists, or special interest law groups.