By Michael Hernandez
CHINO HILLS—”Parents need to understand we’re up against Cultural Marxism,” said Heidi St. John, a homeschool advocate at the Sept. 19th “Come Back California” day-long internet video conference, seen by more than 30,000. “Ground Zero is the public education system. Get off the bench, California.
“Education is not neutral. People are hijacking education. We’ve all but lost the battle for education. Radicals have infiltrated the public school system and it is not recognizable. California is leading the way into darkness for the next generation. Wake up and get engaged and vote out the people who have allowed (this) infiltration in California. Cultural Marxism is the “left idea” that attacks “traditional culture” and the “traditional family” which is about “marriage and patriotism.”
“It is a lie” to say that rioting is “not moving into the suburbs,” said Heidi St. John, who homeschools her family of seven children, just 30 miles from Portland. Where did the rioters “get their revolutionary ideas?” Where did they “learn that America is inherently racist?” From the “public school system.”
“They were indoctrinated in our educational system.” Examples of this are:
Comprehensive sex education (“sexual indoctrination causing damage to the hearts and minds of our young people…We cannot talk about abstinence in California public schools…Sexual indoctrination is legislated.”)
Sexual orientation training (“California educators assume the role of parenting…Grooming our children to consent to sex…Most parents have no idea that their kids schools are pushing insane transgender ideology.”)
Encouraging abortion without parental notification (“brainwashing children and calling parents dangerous…turning children against their parents and causing us to lose a generation of children.”)
Social Emotional Learning (“This endangers the health and privacy of your children.” )
“Teacher unions are dangerous and devastating to parents. Unions want to defund police. We should be defunding the teacher unions.
“I have spent my life raising children to fear God and love their country—not to be socialists. We cannot leave our children in (government) schools for one moment longer.
“How should we be voting?”
“We need to be proactive. Go on the offense. Use your voices. Tell your pastors to open up our churches. Parents need to take responsibility for their child’s education all the way through college.”
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series featuring eight speakers sharing at the ‘Come Back California’ Sept. 19 conference hosted by Chino Hills Pastor Jack Hibbs. To see the first article go to: https://www.citizensjournal.us/pastor-jack-hibbs-why-have-the-pulpits-surrendered-open-up-your-churches-this-is-the-hour-of-great-testing/.)
Michael Hernandez, Co-Founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service; editor of the History Makers Report and founder of History Makers International—a community nonprofit serving youth and families in Ventura County, is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. He worked 25 years as a middle school teacher in Monrovia and Los Angeles Unified School Districts. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted by email at Hernandez.Mike@aol.com.
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