I’m a lifelong resident and small businessman in East County. My wife and I have three sons who have grown up in the Cajon Valley School District attending Blossom Valley Elementary & Los Coches Creek Middle School.

When you first elected me as your schoolboard trustee in 2022, I promised to focus on: promoting academics not social experiments, district governance which is transparent and consistent with student & parent rights, and fiscal policy that funds classrooms first & addresses the deferred maintenance at our schools. And keeping Critical Race Theory, DEI, and radical gender ideology out of our schools.

Here’s how I’ve delivered on those promises:

Promoting Academics, Not Social Experiments: When a $20M taxpayer funded “Community Schools Grant” came to Cajon Valley, radicals in Sacramento along with Bureaucrats in our own School District planned to use the grant to provide “confidential medical care” to students at school, without parent knowledge. Some California public school districts used this Community Schools Grant to fund Planned Parenthoods on School Campuses. However, I worked with our parent and teacher community to redirect all $20M toward a literacy initiative which included LETRS training for our teachers and the “Barton/Orton Gillingham Method” resulting in a double digit increases in literacy rates at our elementary schools like W.D. Hall. When you first elected me, our tax dollars were being awarded without bid nor past performance, to radical groups like San Diego Youth services, who were conducting novel behavioral health studies with a self-referral scheme on pre-K thru 3rd graders in our district, without informed consent from their parents. That summer, San Diego Youth Services had hosted an event which they advertised to kids, called “Let’s talk Trans(istioning)” in a room they call “our safe place.” Their website advertises psychiatric services including “medication management” for children who are transitioning genders, SDYS also provides “gender affirming supplies” to children. 4-9 year olds are too little to be subjected to a study by a group like this, especially since SDYS has ZERO experience conducting mental health studies. SDYS had a glaring conflict of interest since they also provided the “mental health services” that they’d be referring children to. I’m proud to report that, even though I was the lone voice against this group, at the beginning that San Diego Youth Services has been “expelled” from Cajon Valley Union School District AND the Grossmont Union High School District after I brought my concerns to that board. These radical NGO’s have lost access to tens of thousands of minor children and tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding as a direct result of your electing me to the school board.

I have highlighted State and Federal Laws which protect Family Educational Rights and Privacy FROM government and it’s network of Groomer NGO’s, such as CA Ed Code 51513, and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).

Another group, the Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) operates on the principals of Critical Race Theory, they have a 6 part webinar series on their website where they tell the story of how the Community Engagement Initiative was used in Oakland, CA High Schools to get police officers off all campuses, the video says they are proud of a deep and rich history of political activism (this is part of a broader movement to turn students into political activists, for one side, in the classroom). Cajon Valley’s community engagement program uses a handout that identifies so-called “problems of practice,” here are some quotes: “Lack of understanding of historic and systemic racism and inequities, white supremacy & privilege” “Fear of too much focus on minority groups, not all students (fear of backlash from priveleged)” “The system teaches new teachers how to teach children, but they teach them as if all students are the same (socioeconomic, rich, white, etc.)” <end quotes>

These claims are made without evidence, so allowing them to form the basis for a family and community engagement initiative, by our district, is inappropriate. The statute which created the California Community Engagement Initiative in 2018 was about parents being able to hold their districts accountable for academic performance, and districts working to increase clear communication with all student’s families. Like SEL (Social Emotional Learning), CEI has been hijacked by a radical ideology which seeks to launder its hack theories into our classrooms.

Students and families have many protections under state and federal law to thwart groups like this from conducting their social experiments. The only people working in the district who are charged with advocating for student and family rights are school board members. I will take the time to review policies and programs and check for apparent inconsistencies with student and parent rights. I will work to get us back to the basics, for example: nobody at the district seems to kow when the septic systems (some of which are showing obvious issues) at Rios, Los Coches Creek and Blossom Valley Elementary were last pumped and inspected, which should happen every few years, there are major trip hazards (i.e. ground squirrel holes in the asphalt on the playground, buckled concrete in walkways, etc.) these “nuts and bolts” functions have taken a back to seat to exponentially increasing travel, conference, & event budgets for boardmembers and administrators, along with unproven and massively expensive initiatives, all while academic performance in our district severely declines relative to other districts in this state (which is a low bar to begin with).