CVUSD Breaks With Parents, Vows to Push Child Sexualization in All K-12 Classrooms

The Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) board and superintendent Mark McLaughlin said in June that they will promote gender dysphoria, child sexualization and homosexuality in every K-12 classroom as necessary to create “inclusive learning environments” for kids. Board members led by Lauren Gill, along with McLaughlin, labeled any parent opposed to this approach as being full of “hatred” and “bigotry.”

“We’ve heard loud insistences that parents are to be consulted in advance before stories are shared about families that include trans kids,” Gill said at the packed CVUSD board meeting. “This intolerance is not okay, not with me. Thinly-veiled bigotry is bigotry nonetheless. … There is no parental right to inflict discrimination on children in our public schools.”

Their responses came in the wake of a Conejo Guardian article about Maple Elementary third-grade teacher Karen Briggs, who promoted gender dysphoria to her 9-year-old students without notifying parents or asking their permission. The story quickly went national. Liberals of TikTok picked it up, then legacy media outlets like CBS Los Angeles and the County-funded Thousand Oaks Acorn, which jumped on board only after an unknown perpetrator spray-painted “Pervs Work Here” on Maple’s external wall — giving the news outlets an “anti-hate” angle.

No news media seemed willing to report on the basic violation Briggs committed against children and parents — exposing 9-year-olds to sexually mature subject matter and a pro-gender confusion video, causing potential psychological harm to kids and their parents. In any other decade of American history, her actions would constitute a criminally-punishable offense.

Steve Schneider, who went by “Jim Monroe” in the Guardian’s initial article, is the father of a child in Briggs’ third-grade class and the source who came forward to disclose what had happened.

“The Conejo Valley is a wonderful place to raise a family, and I’ve gotten so much support from people in my neighborhood and throughout the whole city,” he says regarding community reaction to his stepping forward to call out Maple Elementary’s actions. “Parents are sick of being kept in the dark in regards to what is in the classroom. When it comes to our kids, we want to be part of the conversation.”

Schneider says he is “hearing stories of things all over this district that are outrageous.” At Maple specifically, “Parents agree that they should’ve been informed before playing the video,” he says.

Teacher Briggs, Superintendent McLaughlin, Maple Elementary principal Patty Lewis and the Maple Parent Faculty Association did not respond to requests for comment.

Parents Fight Back

The Conejo Valley is one of many national hotspots where parents are standing up against child sexualization in public schools. Fathers and mothers in places like Loudon County, Pa., Colorado and Fairfax, Va., are pushing back hard against school boards bent on actively promoting deviant sexualities, self-mutilation via “gender transition” surgeries, and so-called “gender identity” to young children, against the wishes of parents.

A recent Tucker Carlson program called “Transgressive: The Cult of Confusion” featured liberal author Abigail Shrier reporting that “The number of young people who regret their medical transitions is exploding in this country. [Two years ago,] there were 7,000 members of the Detransitioning Reddit group. That number is now up 400 percent. They were given no safeguards by the adults who were supposed to know better.”

In Colorado, a female student at Wellington Middle School was invited by an art teacher to attend an “art club,” which was actually a pro-gender dysphoria group approved by the school board, according to the Daily Mail. Kids were told they could keep the meeting a secret from their parents. (See related article on CVUSD hiding child sexualization from local parents via “Student Support Plans.”)

“When we picked her up from that program after school, we could see on her face that something was incredibly wrong,” the “horrified” mother told Fox News. “It wasn’t art club, it was GSA, or Gender and Sexuality [Alliance] is what they’re calling it now.”

At the “art club” meeting, a pro-homosexual activist told the kids that if they were not fully comfortable in their bodies, they were “transgender.”

“She then told the kids that parents aren’t safe and that it’s okay to lie to them about where they are in order to attend this meeting,” the mom reported.

The speaker gave students her personal contact information and encouraged them to contact her on social media platforms such as Discord and WhatsApp. The Poudre School District (PSD) confirmed the club’s existence and defended its practice of keeping conversations “confidential,” that is, hidden from parents. “In PSD, we promise to create and uphold equitable, inclusive, and rigorous educational opportunities, outcomes, and experiences for all students,” the district said in a statement to DailyMail.com.

The girl’s parents pulled her out of the school and enrolled her in a private school.

Reopening Schools — To Child Sexualization

Back in California, $15,000,000,000 of so-called federal COVID relief money has actually been spent to promote child sexualization and other left-wing causes such as Critical Race Theory in public schools.

According to multiple reports, the California Department of Education is using funds to train school staff in things like “anti-bias strategies,” “environmental literacy,” “ethnic studies,” and “LGBTQ+ cultural competency,” according to the State’s plan.  The U.S. Department of Education says the money helps schools to make a “culture shift” so they “reopen equitably for all students.”

In Fairfax County, Va., a school board mandated suspensions for students who engage in what gender dysphoria proponents call “malicious misgendering,” according to Fox News. The district defines this as “the act of labeling others with a gender that does not match their gender identity. Meaning if the student is going through a transition and you refer to them as their previous gender, then you’re in violation.”

The new rule, punishable down to the fourth-grade level, provoked local parents to say enough is enough. Parents also blasted sex-ed materials they described as “pornographic.” At a meeting, parents held up signs declaring, “Concerned parents are not terrorists.”

“Some of the things that kids are being told in school or even literature that they’re receiving in school, is, if you sold it on the street, or you had it on the street, you’d be criminalized for it,” parent Elizabeth McCauley told the Mail. “If you’re a conservative family or a Christian family, you have a right to be able to live in reality and … address someone who is obviously male as a male.”

Back in Ventura County, where school district leaders are pushing child sexualization and CRT in all schools down to the Kindergarten level, the Guardian was flooded with letters of support and concern from parents and community members shocked at what happened at Maple Elementary.

Schneider, who opened the door for public discussion by coming forward publicly, says he welcomes honest conversation with people who disagree with him.

“It’s great when people can actually have a sit-down and discuss their perspectives,” he says. “Parents, teachers and kids working together on sensitive issues will always be the best solution. … For me and most parents, we are involved in our children’s lives and just want to know what is being presented in the classroom.”

He believes that being involved and showing up at school board meetings is not only a right but a duty.

“If parents aren’t willing to speak out and share their stories, we won’t be able to keep the district accountable to the needs of the families,” he says.