Gov. Newsom Steps On Duly Elected Temecula School Board
Newsom wants to provide cultivated, state-approved information to brainwash and indoctrinate your kids
By J. Mitchell Sances, July 18, 2023 9:19 am
Earlier this year, the Temecula Valley Unified School District chose textbooks for use in its schools. The board rejected an elementary school level social studies textbook that made mention of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician to be elected in the United States and an alleged sexual predator. Governor Gavin Newsom took to Twitter in a virtue-signaling outrage claiming that the state of California will overstep the school board and make those textbooks available to students.
The president of the Temecula Valley Unified School Board reportedly referred to Milk as a “pedophile” in reference to their decision not to use the textbook for elementary school children. This statement is likely in the context of the allegation that Harvey Milk was an ephebophile, someone who has a sexual attraction to adolescent minors.
According to a biography, when Milk was 33 years of age, he engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a then 16-year-old boy who has since committed suicide. Furthermore, in 2008, another young man came forward alleging that Milk convinced him as a teenager to leave his home and family and move out to San Francisco to be with him. As with many allegations of impropriety, there is no definitive proof as to their validity, despite several Milk biographers corroborating the claims with some of Milk’s victims. However, this uncovers the hypocrisy of the progressive left and exposes their true agenda when it comes to education—or indoctrination as the case may be.
Calls to rip down statues and discount the great advancements to our society and country due to possible ties to slavery have been deafening. Historical figures have been demonized and their contributions maligned for adhering to cultural and societal norms that were prevalent during their times. Many historians have even discounted the validity of many of these allegations; however, cancel culture still prevails.
Harvey Milk, unlike our founding fathers, served a very short time in his position before his unfortunate assassination, leaving him very little time to accomplish anything of import. He was gay and probably a sexual predator. Those characteristics were seemingly enough to get his name plastered on a high school in New York City, a 2014 postage stamp, a US Navy ship, and a biopic starring Sean Penn. Despite his colorful and troubling past, Harvey Milk cannot be forgotten thanks to the hypocritical progressives in this country, but statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson must be toppled in the name of “progress.”
The strong arm of the Democrats over government run schools has been an issue for decades. During the pandemic parents were able to see what was being pushed on their children; they are now fighting back. But the government is not backing down. They want to push a very specific and manicured narrative. When it comes to history, the injection of Critical Race Theory and the demonization of our country’s founders is a concerted effort to rewrite the past.
In his video posted to Twitter, Newsom says he wants to “make sure that we provide accurate information and the freedom of our kids to learn.” However, what he means to say is he wants to provide cultivated and state-approved information giving the government freedom to brainwash and indoctrinate your kids.
In 2022, most of the Temecula Valley Unified School Board members were replaced. Only one incumbent won re-election. The parents of Temecula Valley had their voices heard in that election. They trusted that these new board members would make the correct decisions when it comes to their children’s education. Governor Newsom is now overstepping his legal bounds and in effect nullifying the election of the board members and the voices of parents by purchasing and pushing those textbooks into the hands of children anyway.
J. Mitchell Sances, PhD is a linguist, writer, and a researcher. He is a contributing columnist and assistant editor for Outspoken. As a Louisiana native with strong conservative and Christian roots, he seeks to preserve American values and freedoms for future generations.
