and teachers that push back. obviously here locally, we have things with cta and the state of california. tony thurmon texted one trustee. a lot of threats with lawsuits and other things like that. my point was the united states constitution and constitutional rights of parents supercedes state law and we re on the right side of this. ashley: be clear, teachers notify parents for less, like talking in class, what is the beef with this, especially when it is so serious and life changing, on top of that. what do you think the other school boards will do, do you think they will follow suit? i expect a lot of school boards to follow suit. i think this is a no-brainer, i didn t think this would be a heated issue. inner pas need to be involved, especially in california, the
absolutely not. that is what you heard at the meeting, we re not opposed to people there choices, we re opposed to our children keeping things secret from parents, opposed to secrets from inner pas. todd: i understand not every single child in america lives in a perfectly loving home. i acknowledge that off the bat. why does it feel like in states in california there is assumption all parents who by and large would die for their kids are somehow unsafe for those kids. why? because we re putting an exact threat to what the agenda is. tony thurmon called us extremist
for wanting to involve the parents. for me, the extremist is him. i don t think anything is extreme about involving a parent. a parent has a right to be in part of their children s upbringing. unless deemed unfit to say they aren t fit and dangerous and extreme thing. todd: jennifer, you are a lawyer, how are test scores in great state of california? test scores are in the toilet, ranking near last in student achievement metrics. decades ago, california was top of the charts and right now despite all the money, we are in the worst place our kids could be. todd: why is state superintendent coming to school board meetings focusing on stuff like this instead of student test scores? that was absolute flex by tony thurmon and gavin newsom to