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.