It’s beginning to happen in California: In a recent post, we described why there must be a revolution – now – in every school district because of the terrible state of public education.
Like many school districts across California, the Norwalk-La Mirada (NLM) district in suburban Los Angeles is in trouble. Many families are taking their children out of the public schools, moving to either private schools, Catholic schools, or homeschooling them.
The district consists largely of minority families who want their children to succeed. These parents want to see solid, traditional academic subjects emphasized. They have had enough of the radical indoctrination, sexual perversions, Marxism, and other destructive materials being pushed. It has gotten so bad that even some teachers are leaving.
As a result, the NLM system is facing a money crisis. In California, school systems receive funding based on the number of students. Recently, Norwalk-La Mirada announced that it is closing a once-popular specialized high school. At a recent school board meeting, a French teacher complained that he and other language-arts teachers have nearly empty classrooms because so many students have left. Layoffs are on the horizon.
Officials Getting the Message
Slowly, the school board has been getting the message. For over a year, a large group of minority parents organized by MassResistance demanded an end to an outrageous “wellbeing center” at one of the high school which dispensed “mental health” counseling and a wide range of birth control and abortion materials to students. Last June, the school board did not renew its contract, effectively shutting it down.
Then in November, MassResistance parents helped elect a conservative parent activist to the school board, tipping it to a 4-3 conservative majority. That sent a very strong message.
The parents are very public about what they want: The goal is a complete and revolutionary change in the schools – to make them places where parents want to send their children and where teachers want to teach. They want super-charged academics and all radicalism and sexual outreaches removed.
Parents Meet with Top School Officials
In January, MassResistance asked the new NLM superintendent to meet with parents to talk about this goal. She seemed very interested in our ideas and arranged a meeting for Feb. 13. The top school officials were clearly interested in what the parents had to say; the superintendent, the board chairman, the new board member, assistant superintendent, and public information officer all attended the meeting with eight MassResistance parents and National Field Director Arthur Schaper, who lives nearby.
The parents stressed that they care about all the children in the community, not just their own. They were particularly vocal about the conditions that drive families out of the system, and which led to their demands for change:
The poor quality of education being provided. One parent bluntly asked, “Why should we send our children to school if they aren’t learning anything?”
Exposure to obscene materials hurts children’s minds and souls. A growing number of children are experiencing psychological problems because of their exposure to destructive sexual orientation/gender identity perversion and other sexual degeneracy in the schools. (This material is in curriculum units, reading assignments, and library books. It also includes LGBTQ events, GSA club activities, and policies about “gender identity.”) “Why is this in the schools at all?” they asked.
One woman said her child came home from school confused about whether he is a boy or a girl. Another parent shared growing concerns about boys in girls’ spaces and sports.
The parents want the school district to follow, not ignore, President Donald Trump’s executive orders requiring the removal of DEI, gender indoctrination, and related issues from all classrooms nationwide.
Overall, they were resolute that these concerns are not just “suggestions.” Massive changes need to take place.
All the school officials seemed genuinely interested in these ideas, and there was a strong sense that they agreed with those views. But actually making it happen is a big challenge. How will it be done? That wasn’t discussed. But it will be the subject of an upcoming meeting.
One issue the board members were clear about is that they cannot accomplish these goals by themselves. The effort would require a huge and very vocal backing from parents in the community. That’s because local leftists, unions, special interest groups, and radical staff will fight it.
By getting their school officials in the NLM district on board, the parents are halfway there. Now the battle begins for the other half.
Copyright 2025 MassResistance. Republished with permission.
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