{"id":1968836,"date":"2023-07-10T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-reason-parents-in-los-angeles-county-protested-pride\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:46:54","slug":"the-real-reason-parents-in-los-angeles-county-protested-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-reason-parents-in-los-angeles-county-protested-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents in Los Angeles County protested &#8216;Pride&#8217; due to a genuine underlying cause."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-real-reason-parents-in-los-angeles-county-protested-pride%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968836&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>This article is adapted from Sunday\u2019s Morning Wire\u00a0episode. To listen to the podcast version, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/the-real-reason-glendale-parents-protested-pride-7-9-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<h3>Problems have been brewing in a Los Angeles County school district for years now. A recent clash with Antifa over LGBT Pride policies, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-reason-parents-in-los-angeles-county-protested-pride\/\" title=\"Parents in Los Angeles County protested 'Pride' due to a genuine underlying cause.\">finally garnered legacy media headlines<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>The Daily Wire spoke to numerous parents of students at Glendale Unified School District about why they were protesting. The parents pointed to issues with transparency, inappropriate LGBT curriculum and policies, and directed us to shocking videos related to district policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a political guy in any way,\u201d Ervin, a father of two students at Glendale told The Daily Wire. \u201cI\u2019m just a regular dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Glendale is a notoriously liberal area of Los Angeles, where registered Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laalmanac.com\/election\/el18.php\">double<\/a> Republicans, Ervin, like other parents who spoke to The Daily Wire, didn\u2019t consider himself particularly political.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started seeing these things pop up locally, and people are complaining about it, I decided to go to a couple of school board meetings and see what the fuss is about,\u201d Ervin said. \u201cAnd we learned quite a few things that happened. This all kind of got kicked off in my opinion when COVID happened, and some of the parents discovered what was being told to the students, especially the younger ones in elementary school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ervin is referring to the day parents protested an LGBT Pride Day assembly at Saticoy Elementary School, which is in the neighboring Los Angeles Unified School District. The school planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/sherman.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/sherman-denounces-burning-of-pride-flag-at-saticoy-elementary#:~:text=Sherman%20Denounces%20Burning%20of%20Pride%20Flag%20at%20Saticoy%20Elementary,-May%2031%2C%202023&#038;text=North%20Hollywood%2C%20California%20%2D%2D%20An,hate%20crime%2C%20according%20to%20LAPD.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teach<\/a> children about \u201cLGBTQ+ identities.\u201d Some parents disagreed, saying they don\u2019t want sexuality discussed at school and many of them kept their children home on the day of the Pride assembly. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/06\/05\/antifa-urged-to-battle-california-parents-over-elementary-schools-lgbtq-pride-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that only 40% of the students showed up to school that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do elementary kids need to learn about sexual orientation or who they want to have sex with?\u201d Ervin questioned. \u201cLike, eight, nine-year-olds are not thinking about who they\u2019re gonna have sex with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 parents protested outside the elementary school. Protesters held up signs and chanted things like, \u201cLeave our kids alone,\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s no pride in grooming,\u201d and \u201cTeach our kids math, science, and English.\u201d A physical fight broke out between protesters and counter-protesters, and a small Pride flag placed outside an elementary classroom was reportedly burned \u2014 the flag allegedly belonged to a teacher at the school who identifies as transgender.<\/p>\n<p>Parents also claimed some of the counter-protesters didn\u2019t have a connection to the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell them right now, you don\u2019t have a child here,\u201d one father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EegCCm01PPw&#038;t=246s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cYou cannot say what my child should learn or not. If the parent who has a child here comes and says, \u2018Hey I feel offended\u2019 \u2014 I can talk to him. But they\u2019re here to provoke us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Glendale parents said the issue of transparency has been raging for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Another parent, Marina Vivar, brought her complaint to a Glendale city council meeting and was captured on video. Her daughter \u2014 an autistic ninth-grader who has a brain injury \u2014 was taught about gay sex in class. Vivar said she opted her daughter out of certain portions of sex-education, but her request was not followed by the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter was taught subjects such as \u2018scissoring\u2019 which seems to be two females who decide to have sex with each other,\u201d Vivar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pbm_4ZmnUho\">said<\/a> at the meeting. \u201cThe good thing is they at least taught you to use female condoms, because if you don\u2019t use female condoms then two females can get pregnant, which is not something that can actually happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my daughter did express that I did opt her out of these classes, she was called a bigot by her teacher and her aide, she was called intolerant, and she was also called homophobic,\u201d Vivar continued. \u201cI don\u2019t feel that a teacher or a staff member\u2019s personal opinion, or beliefs, or lack of, should be considered on the clock. That\u2019s not what you guys are paying them for. We\u2019re not paying teachers for their opinions, to share their opinions, or push their opinions, or agendas on children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Principal Benjamin Wolf, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/exclusive-glendale-high-school-accused-of-disciplining-special-needs-student-for-using-wrong-pronouns-teaching-lgbtq-sex-lessons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting<\/a> from The Post Millennial, told Vivar that her daughter, Thelma, was mistaken, and this incident never happened. He also told her that parents are not allowed to specifically opt out of LGBTQ content for their children, and must opt out of the entire course. Wolf did say, however, that the form Vivar filled out was \u201cin need of updating\u201d and would be for next school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen how did my daughter come home explaining to me what scissoring was and asking me how two females can have sex and must use protection \u2026 or else they can get pregnant?\u201d Vivar pushed back. \u201cHow else would my daughter come home knowing the word \u2018transphobic\u2019? \u2026 that\u2019s what I would like to know.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Vivar also said that her daughter\u2019s aide in school is a woman who now <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/exclusive-glendale-high-school-accused-of-disciplining-special-needs-student-for-using-wrong-pronouns-teaching-lgbtq-sex-lessons\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">identifies<\/span><\/a> as a man and uses male pronouns. Her daughter didn\u2019t understand this due in part to her special needs, Vivar said, and was allegedly being sent to an office repeatedly and disciplined for messing up these \u201cpreferred pronouns.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got in trouble for it because I wasn\u2019t exactly sure,\u201d Thelma said. \u201cI never knew what it was. My teacher says I used the wrong pronouns \u2026 I got in trouble for it many times, either through adults or students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thelma was told over and over that her aide is now \u201ca man.\u201d Vivar said the school kept these incidents from her and she found out weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-teachers-buck-union-vote-to-reopen-schools\/\" title=\"Chicago Teachers Buck Union, Vote to Reopen Schools\">middle school teacher<\/a> from the Glendale district gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2tyTErSu9EQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation<\/a> at the 2019 California Teachers\u2019 Association LGBTQ Issues Conference, where she directs other teachers about how they can start a \u201cGay-Straight Alliance\u201d club \u2013 also known as a \u201cGender-Sexuality Alliance\u201d club or a GSA in their schools. During the presentation, Rosemont Middle School English teacher Lisa Avery describes starting a GSA without permission from the school principal, who told Avery the children were too young for such a club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time school started again in the fall, we were done asking for permission,\u201d Avery said during the presentation. \u201cWe went to our administrators and said, \u2018By the way, we\u2019re starting a GSA, just so you know. This is what\u2019s happening.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When they received pushback from the principal, Avery described how her husband \u2014 then the school\u2019s Mental Health Counselor \u2014 used colorful language when confronting her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight before we wanted to take our club public, [the principal] wanted to pull it out and be like, nope, we can\u2019t do it. She totally got cold feet, and my husband had a little conversation with her in the parking lot where he used some really choice four-letter words and basically said to her, \u2019Look, these are the kids on campus that are looked down on by everyone else, \u2026 if you wanna make the club stop \u2014 you can show up to our next meeting and you can tell them yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the most notorious portions of the presentation, though, came when Avery said that she \u201cpoached\u201d the school\u2019s most unstable children for leading the GSA. \u201cOur leaders were unreliable,\u201d Avery said. \u201cRemember, we had poached them from the counseling office, right? They were not the most emotionally stable students on campus. Actually, they were the least emotionally stable students on campus, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 6, things came to a head at the school district, when some 500 people reportedly protested outside a school board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need to stop asking little children what they sexually identify as,\u201d one protester said, as seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i8iWOrXSy2w\">footage<\/a> from a FOX affiliate. Another said, \u201cAnybody could come to the principal and say, \u2018Ya know what, I\u2019m transgender,\u2019 and walk into the girls\u2019 bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were physical altercations at the protest that gained much media attention. Parents who were in attendance said they were being agitated by outsiders. They said those who started trouble had no connection to the school and some were dressed in riot gear.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been reported that members of the Southern California chapter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/antifa\">Antifa<\/a>, a Left-wing political group known to use violence to shut down dissenting voices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/punches-thrown-outside-a-glendale-school-board-meeting-over-student-pronouns\">showed up<\/a> to the protest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere were they two weeks ago? Where were they four weeks ago? Where were they? Six weeks ago? Why is it that they showed up on June 6th? Were they there to antagonize people?\u201d Ervin asked. \u201cAnd that\u2019s exactly what happened. That\u2019s exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a peaceful protest going on,\u201d the father added. \u201cAnd then, I mean, you could poke the bear so many times, eventually it\u2019s gonna strike back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, on June 20, parents gathered to protest outside the last school board meeting of the year. That culminated in one arrest when protesters and counter-protesters again clashed. Almost immediately following that board meeting, Glendale Superintendent Dr. Vivian Ekchian announced her retirement, which was effective on June 30. Ekchian made no reference to the ongoing disputes between parents and administration on her way out, but she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gusd.net\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&#038;DomainID=1&#038;ModuleInstanceID=37215&#038;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&#038;RenderLoc=0&#038;FlexDataID=50136&#038;PageID=1\">said<\/a> the \u201ctransformative work being done throughout the district\u201d would continue.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-kamala-harris-senior-adviser-symone-sanders-to-leave-white-house\/\" title=\"Report: Kamala Harris Senior Adviser Symone Sanders to Leave White House\">high-profile departure<\/a> from the district. Ray Shelton, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-parents-on-new-social-studies-curriculum-our-children-cannot-escape-leftist-messaging\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Parents On New Social Studies Curriculum: \u2018Our Children Cannot Escape Leftist Messaging\u2019\">5th-grade teacher<\/a> with decades of teaching experience also left over the transgender policies. He went viral in April when he spoke out at a Glendale school board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo plus two equals four. The world is not flat. Boys have penises, girls have vaginas. Gender is binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is not hate,\u201d Shelton <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumstream.com\/streaming\/gusd\/2023_04_18.cfm\">said<\/a> at the meeting. \u201cGender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo caring professional or loving parent would ever support the chemical poisoning or surgical mutilation of a child\u2019s genitalia. Transgender ideology is anti-gay, it is anti-woman, and it is anti-human. And I can also say this as a gay man \u2013,\u201d Shelton continued before his mic was cut off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shelton was subsequently suspended from his teaching position, The Daily Signal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/06\/06\/award-winning-gay-teacher-suspended-for-speaking-out-against-transgenderism\/\">reported<\/a>. Hours after that viral moment, another teacher named Alicia Harris filed a complaint against Shelton, suggesting he was pro-Nazi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For now, parents in Glendale are continuing to speak out. While The superintendent is on her way out, parents still don\u2019t yet know who will replace Ekchian. And another issue that parents are concerned about is a <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/CA\/text\/SB596\/id\/2701905#:~:text=(a)%20Any%20parent%2C%20guardian,is%20guilty%20of%20a%20misdemeanor.\">bill<\/a> currently working its way through the California legislature that could chill future attempts to speak up at school board meetings or even on social media. The bill would criminalize harassment or threats toward school employees after school hours, but the bill doesn\u2019t specify what counts as harassment. Convictions could carry up to a year behind bars and a $1,000 fine. This bill claims to \u201cprotect\u201d school employees from parents, but parents say the bill is designed to silence them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike I said, I\u2019m not some huge political guy, but now I\u2019m gonna be,\u201d Ervin told The Daily Wire. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m gonna get more involved. I\u2019m gonna protest \u2014 like they say, I\u2019ve been activated now. Nobody wants to be an activist; it\u2019s a pain in the a**. But if we\u2019re dragged into it, we\u2019re forced into it, we will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a troubled Los Angeles County school district. The recent clash with Antifa regarding LGBT Pride policies has finally caught the attention of the media. The Daily Wire interviewed several concerned parents about the ongoing problems in the district. 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