California attorney general files LAWSUIT to keep parents in the dark over gender identity policy



The Chino Valley Unified School District in California has adopted a policy that would require schools to inform parents about student gender transitions, and some people — including California’s attorney general — aren’t happy.

The attorney general, Rob Bonta, filed a lawsuit against the school district over the policy, claiming that “the forced outing policy wrongfully endangers the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of non-conforming students who lack an accepting environment in the classroom and at home.”

Sara Gonzales of "The News & Why It Matters" is enraged.

“You cannot inform parents about their own freaking children. We must hide it from the parents, and then when the child becomes confused and withdrawn and isolated and depressed and ends up killing themselves, I don’t know, I guess it’ll be the parents' fault even though they didn’t know,” she rants.

“This is disgusting stuff,” she adds.

Senator Scott Weiner weighed in on X, tweeting, “Forcing a teacher to out a trans kid to their parents — even if the kid isn’t ready & even if it puts them at risk of harm — is dangerous & frankly despicable.”

“Each of us decides when we come out. It’s no one else’s damn business,” he continued.

“I can’t think of a better name than Scott Weiner for this little weiner,” Gonzales comments.

Jason Buttrill, head writer and researcher for Glenn Beck, has some thoughts as well.

“I don’t think parents even know how deep this goes. This is so infested in public schools,” Buttrill says, explaining that school psychologists have their own standards and can counsel kids on "gender-affirming care" and never tell the parents about it.

“The parents don’t get to know, but we as the teachers who have no familial connection to your child have the right to guide them into it, indoctrinate them into it, prime their brains for it, but you don’t have the right to know about it,” Gonzales says, adding, “Get your kids the hell out of public schools.”


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Video: California school calls police to remove 4-year-old boy with developmental issues for not wearing mask, father considering legal action



California school officials called police to have a 4-year-old boy with developmental issues removed from the classroom because he wasn't wearing a mask.

An unnamed boy started transitional kindergarten at Theuerkauf Elementary on Aug. 10.

The boy suffers from sensory issues and has had difficulty wearing a face mask during the pandemic. The boy became distressed when he had to wear a mask during visits to the doctor and dentist – but the healthcare workers made accommodations for the boy with developmental issues.

The father – who only identified himself as "Shawn" out of safety concerns – claimed that he began communicating with the Mountain View Whisman School District in the spring. However, Shawn said the superintendent was unresponsive.

The school district allegedly told the father that his son could delay attending school until the age of six.

An incident emerged on Thursday after the boy had been denied access to the school since Monday. The boy's father recorded the confrontation between him and the school’s principal – Michelle Williams.

The boy is escorted out of the classroom by Williams.

“I welcome him here and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I want him here but it is our district’s policy to have to wear a mask,” Williams tells the boy’s father in the video.

"I am here to serve all our students on our campus," she said. "I cannot keep spending time on this same issue."

Williams told the father, "I'm going to have to have you removed from campus if you do not leave at this time."

A police officer was called, and asked Shawn to leave the campus.

"I can't say what they are doing is wrong; I can't say what you are doing is wrong," the officer told the father. "Both sides have valid points. For me, I just have to ensure on the campus as a whole that kids get their education."

Shawn told the Daily Mail, "They told me to force it on him. They are basically telling me to assault and batter my son."

"I do have a medical background, I've worked extensively in the healthcare environment. I'm well-versed in medical law," he added. "And in essence, they are breaking it.

"They feel like they can walk all over it," Shawn continued. "If a patient does not offer consent, they can not touch the patient. We're going to continue to challenge this."

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Over the next four days, he brought his son to school and was turned away. He also hired an attorney, who sent the district a cease-and-desist letter, demanding Shawn’s son be allowed to attend school as required by the state’s constitution."

The father is reportedly considering legal action against the school.

Shawn's attorney – Tracy Henderson with the California Parents Union – asserted that the school broke the law by refusing the child.

"The school’s authority in a situation of public health issues, by law, is only to send a sick child home," Henderson said.

During Thursday night's board meeting, the school district made masks optional.

“We are now in the medium tier, so starting tomorrow, we are now in 'masks optional' for students,” said Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph.

The school district determines if masks need to be worn on a week-by-week basis based on COVID-19 cases.

Masks will still be required on buses, at large events, and for any school visitors.

Shawn was unsatisfied that the school district lifted the mask mandate because he noted that they could easily reinstate the rule.

The father wants the policy to have a parental choice on whether their children are forced to wear masks to attend school.

"I'm watching my son. I’m waking him up every day to go to school, get turned away with tears in his eyes," the father said. "He doesn’t know what’s going on, he’s visibly upset, visibly disheveled by getting turned away and rejected."

"I just think it’s time to move forward, the kids need to see faces, they need to see people smiling, they need to have a brighter outlook on the future in general," he told KABC-TV.

Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph said in a statement, "Our primary responsibility as a school district is the safety of students and staff members in order to create a peaceful learning and working environment for all on our campuses."

Rudolph said it was "unfortunate" that the parent was recording a video of the confrontation with the principal.

"I'm disappointed that civil discourse is no longer the rule," Rudolph said.

Board member Christopher Chiang said, "There is so much nasty politics and dangerous rhetoric and ideologies out there, we’re bringing a target to our district when we do that. Please don’t post it online. That changes everything."

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Parents furious after elementary school says to send kids in ‘warm jackets’ and ‘rain gear’ for COVID-mandated outdoor eating, forcing school to reverse course



California parents were seething after Patwin Elementary School officials emailed a notice advising parents to dress their children in "warm jackets" and "rain gear" for an upcoming school week that saw cold and rainy temperatures.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all children are made to eat their lunches outdoors. Public outcry forced the school to change course on what many parents said was an absurd idea.

What are the details?

Patwin Elementary School Principal Gay Bourguignon sent the concerning message this week, which said, "Rain is forecasted this week which will present an added challenge to our lunch routines. [Davis Joint Unified School District] students are required to eat outside at this time due to COVID restrictions. I am asking you to send your children to school with rain gear and warm jackets."

Reopen California Schools founder Jonathan Zachreson told Fox News that the message spurred a bevy of complaints directed at the administrators and school board.

"This exemplifies California's response with kids during the pandemic," Zachreson stated. "The inhumane treatment of children continues from masking all day, even outdoors, to having to sit on hot cement and now eating lunch in the rain."

Kevin Kiley, a Republican California state legislator, agreed with Zachreson and the other parents and tweeted, "Cruelty to children has been normalized in California."

A school district in Davis is forcing students to eat lunch outside in the rain to keep them "safe." Cruelty to chi… https://t.co/efVzyC7jMN

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The outlet reported that one parent said that the extreme mitigation tactics were unsurprising "given the state of COVID fear in Davis itself."

Another parent added that the rule — as well as the fact that the district requires students to wear masks even during outdoor recess — is "ridiculous and overkill."

What happened then?

Following the outcry, the district released a message to concerned parents that students would be permitted to eat indoors "whenever possible," and pointed to the "unique challenges" of mitigating the risks of COVID-19 as they pertain to indoor eating at area schools.

The message, according to reports, was not enough — and further outcry prompted the principal to issue yet another message "reversing course," Fox reported.

"Some parents are very happy with our decision to have students eat outside and others are concerned," Bourguignon wrote in the message. "Our campus is not ideal for eating outside due to the lack of a solid walkway cover. In collaboration with our District staff, we looked at all of the alternatives. If during lunchtime, we have a heavy downpour of rain it will be challenging to eat under the covered walkways. "

"During a heavy downpour, we will have a staggered lunch with one grade level at a time in our MPR for 15 minutes with all 10 doors open and 2 air purifiers running," the message continued. "After 15 minutes, students will be dismissed to their classrooms for inside recess. If you prefer that your child remains outside to eat please inform your teacher and we will make accommodations to support your request."

LA teachers union voted 'overwhelmingly to resist premature return,' slams reopening plan as 'propagating structural racism'



Classrooms in the second-largest school district in the nation will continue to be dark for the immediate future after the powerful United Teachers of Los Angeles voted "overwhelmingly" not to return to in-person learning until they deem work conditions to be safe.

The UTLA announced on Friday that its "members have voted overwhelmingly to resist a premature and unsafe physical return to school sites." Of the UTLA members, 91% voted not to return to classrooms until certain "safety criteria" are met.

The teachers refuse to return to classroom learning until Los Angeles County is out of the purple tier. According to California's "Blueprint for a Safer Economy" restrictions, purple tier regions are areas that have "widespread" COVID-19 infections. In order to get out of the purple tier, a county needs to have fewer than seven coronavirus cases per 100,000 and less than 8% of positive COVID-19 tests. Most of the state of California is in the purple tier, and has been for months.

The Los Angeles teachers union also states that they won't reopen schools until "staff are either fully vaccinated or provided access to full vaccination." California entered Phase 1B of its COVID-19 vaccination effort this month, which allows coronavirus shots for individuals who are age 65 and older, those who work in agriculture, food, emergency services, childcare, and education.

Before they return to classrooms, the United Teachers of Los Angeles also demanded that "safety conditions are in place at our schools including PPE, physical distancing, improved ventilation, and daily cleaning."

"This vote signals that in these most trying times, our members will not accept a rushed return that would endanger the safety of educators, students, and families," said UTLA president Cecily Myart-Cruz said.

On Thursday, both chambers of California's Legislature nearly unanimously passed a school reopening. The bill does not require schools to reopen, but holds back approximately $2 billion in grant money until districts return for at least part-time in-person learning by March 31. The school will lose 1% of the grant money for every day after April 1 that there is not in-person education, according to the Daily Wire.

The United Teachers of Los Angeles responded to the reopening plan by labeling it as "a recipe for propagating structural racism."

"If you condition funding on the reopening of schools, that money will only go to white and wealthier and healthier school communities that do not have the transmission rates that low-income black and brown communities do," Myart-Cruz said. "This is a recipe for propagating structural racism and it is deeply unfair to the students we serve."

"We are being unfairly targeted by people who are not experiencing this disease in the same ways as students and families are in our communities," the UTLA president added. "If this was a rich person's disease, we would've seen a very different response. We would not have the high rate of infections and deaths. Now educators are asked instead to sacrifice ourselves, the safety of our students, and the safety of our schools."

The Los Angeles Unified School District has over 600,000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade at over 1,000 schools.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines on how schools should reopen in February, which clearly stated that school reopening should not be conditional on having teachers and faculty vaccinated.

In July, Dr. Robert Redfield, then-director of the CDC, cautioned about the psychological damage that lockdowns and remote schooling could inflict on children.

"But there has been another cost that we've seen, particularly in high schools," he said. "We're seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We're seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID."

The former CDC director also said in July that he would "100%" have his grandchildren go back to school.

Last month, the nation's fifth-largest school district proclaimed that it wanted to reopen as "quickly as possible" after a rash of student suicides. Clark County School District in Nevada experienced double the number of student suicides in nine months this year compared to all of last year.

Following a worrying number of child suicides and suicide attempts, the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against its own school district to reopen.

California school district promotes black-only parent meeting calling for black parents to have 'larger influence' on curriculum



The Val Verde Unified School District in Perris, California, is promoting a black-only parent event that is calling for black parents to have a larger impact and influence on shaping the district curriculum, according to a Thursday report in the Daily Wire.

The event, while promoted by the school, is run by local California activist Oliver Petty.

What are the details?

The outlet reported that the event, a seven-part meeting series, is set for black district parents to "share their experiences" and provide "input into how the district should alter its curriculum."

Flyers obtained by the outlet note that the first and second meetings, which recently took place, permitted attending parents to air grievances and share "lived experiences" with those in attendance while setting forth goals.

One flyer states, "After a deep dive into the feel of our community and the challenges faced within the district, it is time to evaluate and share with the cabinet and those in positions who can actually create change tailored to your collective needs and demands. Let's not sugarcoat what you need or want to see change."

The Daily Wire reported that the third meeting "told parents that their input would help the school district make changes to the curriculum and programs being offered."

The flyer read, "We also desire to learn about any specific programs you believe would be most effective to your child's academic success or potentially adjust programs currently offered."

'Race and Gender in U.S. History'

According to the outlet, one district teacher speaking on the condition of anonymity told the outlet that the district is "already embedding ethnic studies classes into 11th-grade U.S. History classes and 10th-grade literature classes."

The source also claims that "U.S. History" will soon be renamed "Race and Gender in U.S. History."

The class, according to documents obtained by the outlet, will be broken down into four themes: culture, barriers/social stratification, bias, and activism.

Culture is set to focus on teaching students to "look at the nature of race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, societal norms, and values as methods for the development of a self and/or cultural identity."

Barriers/social stratification will focus on the question: "How do disenfranchised individuals resist against unjust societal norms and/or laws?"

Bias will focus on teaching students to "understand the concept of institutionalized biases and how they lead to social inequalities."

Activism will encourage students to develop "civics-oriented projects to address social inequalities that exist within their local communities," and instructors will encourage students to "promote social awareness and social activism."

The outlet noted that the district as well as its superintendent "did not respond to multiple requests for comment."

Entire California school board resigns after officials caught on hot mic trashing parents who wanted to reopen schools



An entire school board in northern California resigned after a video of the officials bashing parents went viral. In a virtual meeting, the school officials ridiculed parents who wanted in-person public education to resume. The video grabbed nationwide headlines.

Shortly after the video surfaced online, a petition sprung up that called for the resignation of the school board members, and quickly amassed thousands of signatures. The president and three other members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District resigned on Friday after they were caught on a hot mic leak lambasting parents who want schools reopened.

President Lisa Brizendine, as well as Kim Beede, Erica Ippolito, and Richie Masadas, all resigned after becoming infamous on the internet for trouncing parents, including insinuating that they're drug users.

The district's superintendent, Greg Hetrick, announced the board's resignation on Friday and disavowed the "truly inappropriate comments."

"The comments made were not in alignment with our vision and are definitely not what any of us stand for as leaders," Hetrick told Fox News. "I know that we lost trust with the community. I will not make excuses for what happened or why it happened."

Hetrick said that the departing school board would temporarily be replaced by members of the Contra Costa County education board, according to Mercury News. The school district is about 50 miles east of San Francisco.

Brizendine issued an apology after announcing her resignation as president of the school board.

"I am raising a 10-year-old with special needs and having him home during this pandemic, while also holding down two jobs to support my family has been a huge stress," Brizendine said. "I suffer with many of the same things that parents are going through from mental health issues to regression. My remark was callous and uncalled for and for that I am truly sorry."

However, during the viral video, Brizendine didn't seem to show empathy toward parents who are struggling to balance their new stressful pandemic lives where they have taken a greater role in the education of their children.

"It's really unfortunate that they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back," Brizendine said of parents in the video, which she thought was a private conversation with her peers, but was being broadcast to the public and recorded. She also insulted teachers by calling them "babysitters."

School board member Richie Masadas seemed to suggest that parents are upset that classrooms are closed because children being home interrupts the adults smoking marijuana. Masadas said his brother is a cannabis delivery person, "and the clientele were parents with their kids in school." He allegedly noted that the parents were angry because could no longer "smoke up" now that their kids are home.

Oakley Union trustee Kim Beede reportedly went on a profanity-laced tirade during the eight-minute video.

"Are we alone? "B****, if you're gonna call me out, I'm going to f*** you up. Sorry, that's just me."

Beede, Masadas, and Ippolito issued an apology.

"We deeply regret the earlier comments that were made in the meeting of the Board of Education earlier this week," the joint statement by now ex-board members reads. "As trustees, we realize it is our responsibility to model the conduct that we expect of our students and staff, and it is our obligation to build confidence in district leadership; our comments failed you in both regards, and for this we offer our sincerest apology."

Ashley Stalf, whose 6-year-old daughter attends a school in the district, reacted to the school board openly disparaging parents.

"We meet regularly with the board as parents and we're constantly sending in letters and emails and telling them our griefs and our strife's over distance learning," Stalf told host Steve Doocy on "Fox & Friends." "It seems as of late that they mocked us, that we're just complaining and we have nothing better to do."

Stalf asked, "What are their true intentions, if they feel so freely that they can talk, you know, on a mic that may or may not be hot, what's truly being said behind closed doors?"

Parents are frustrated since public schools in California have been closed for in-person education for months.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, declared earlier this month that schools shouldn't reopen until the massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 economic stimulus plan is passed.

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LA Times editorial board tells city's superintendent of schools 'to put on his big-boy pants' and reopen schools



To say that parents nationwide are tired of the mixed messages they're getting from school district leadership, the state governments, and the teachers' unions would be an understatement.

But parents are easy to ignore. American school districts have been doing it for decades.

From New York to Chicago to Portland, elected leaders are instead cowering to teachers' unions and refusing to get teachers back in classrooms even as state and federal health officials repeatedly declare that it's safe to return to in-person instruction.

In Los Angeles, teachers have been fighting going back to work for months now — and the cries of parents and students seemingly have been ignored by the bigwigs of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

However, one group in L.A. that is harder to ignore just jumped into the fray on the side of parents: the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times.

In a Wednesday editorial, the paper declared that the city's school district "is officially out of excuses for keeping elementary schools closed" and that the superintendent "needs to put on his big-boy pants" and tell educators to get back into the classroom.

The paper noted that despite the fact that schools across the country have reopened with little risk and that elementary students are "far less likely" to get COVID or infect others and that there have been zero surges caused by reopened schools, L.A. Unified schools (and many others throughout California) have remained shuttered.

According to the paper, Superintendent Austin Beutner can finally open schools now because the county's infection rate has fallen to the point where it is "officially safe" for every elementary school in the county to open.

Yet, Beutner — who has been in an ongoing struggle with United Teachers Los Angeles — still does not have any immediate plans to reopen, the Times said.

"There are no more excuses. Further delay is unacceptable," the paper declared.

Beutner has been acquiescing to UTLA's demands — getting school buildings ready for teachers and students, updating testing availability, and implementing an elaborate tracing regimen, not to mention pushing to get teachers vaccinated before returning (which public experts have repeatedly said is not necessary) — yet the union continues to stand in the way.

The Times has a message for Beutner: Get tough with the unions and demand that teachers get back to work — or understand they could find themselves out of work.

From the Times:

It's not easy to go against UTLA, as Beutner learned during a bruising strike two years ago. But at this point, the superintendent needs to put on his big-boy pants, reopen schools and demand that teachers return or risk their jobs. Union leaders in turn need to realize that not only are students done a tremendous disservice by the continued closures, but most parents vehemently want their kids back in the classroom. The union is jeopardizing its own popularity if it continues to put the needs of students and families last.

It's also time for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the paper said, to "fall in line with the CDC" and get kids back into schools.

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'Really f***ed up': Progressive writer blasts Democrats for playing politics, cowering to unions, and ignoring science in refusal to reopen schools



Parents across the country have been clamoring for state governments to reopen schools, yet in blue states those calls are largely being ignored, while red states are far more likely to have reopened schools.

The Democratic intransigence on opening schools has not escaped Americans' attention — both on the political right and left.

One Bay Area writer — and admitted left-wing progressive — is taking her fellow leftists and the Democrats they support to task for playing politics with kids' lives by cowering to teachers' unions and ignoring science in their refusal to get schools open again.

Dr. Rebecca Bodenheimer, an Oakland-based writer, posted what she called her "rant" about the politics involved in the fight over reopening schools this weekend — and she went directly after the "Democratic apathy" and the party's ties to teachers' unions.

Noting that experts in public health, including the CDC, have said it is safe to reopen schools and that reopening should be a priority, Bodenheimer lamented that "anyone can sit by and think this is an acceptable state of affairs for a developed country" and said it makes her "blood boil to see how little this country cares about kids."

And then she went after the specific culprits in all of this: Democratic leadership and teachers' unions.

"The politicization of this issue is what's really f***ed up," she wrote.

"Schools are largely open in red states and closed in blue ones," Bodenheimer continued, pointing to "Burbio's K-12 School Opening Tracker."

The tracker — which features an "in-person index" based on weighted averages of virtual, hybrid, and in-person instruction — clearly shows that red states are far more likely to have students back in the classroom than blue states.

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Bodenheimer has found herself flummoxed by the situation.

"It's very difficult for me to understand the simplistic thinking that says: Trump said open schools, so we must keep them closed at all costs," she said. "I have never felt so alienated from the people I usually align myself with politically. I will never understand how the left in this country has decided that advocating for putting kids first is somehow right-wing."

She's not the only one her in tribe noticing the left's failure, she said. Liberal California parents like her are about ready to take out their frustration on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom:

I'm hearing from progressive parents all the time who are so infuriated about the Democratic apathy around school reopening — from politicians like Gavin Newsom, who are willing to allow their stances to be dictated by teachers' unions — that they're considering supporting the recall effort, maybe even switching parties.

But she reserved her harshest criticism for the unions that have ignored the science surrounding the coronavirus and schools:

[H]ere's the thing: parents are not willing to sacrifice their kids' wellbeing for the sake of ideology or being a good leftist. And they shouldn't. It's our most important job to do what's best for our kids. And if that means calling out teachers' unions, so be it. I won't stay silent while unions ignore the science and the entire public health community, and all the research telling us schools aren't drivers of transmission, that spread is much lower in schools than in the surrounding community. Last March we didn't know any better. But now we know — and we've known for months. Europe opened up in the fall. Florida, Texas, all the red states opened up. Rhode Island was one of the few blue states that was committed to putting kids first. Can you remember even one major outbreak that was tied to school transmission (not a handful of cases, but an outbreak)? I can't. And teachers aren't at greater risk either.

Many of the parents I'm working with on this issue see themselves as progressive and have until now supported organized labor and unions (I myself went to the picket line for Oakland teachers 2 years ago), but it's so clear to us that teachers' unions are dead wrong on this issue and that their interests are diametrically opposed to what's best for our kids. Your own kid might be doing ok in remote learning, but by and large, kids aren't doing well. Mine sure isn't. Just remember: the principles of child development haven't just vanished because we're in a pandemic. It's still not good to have our kids in front of the screen for hours upon hours every day. Kids still need to learn alongside other kids and still need to play with other kids. What I'm saying is, there's no amount of improvement of distance learning you can do that will make it be a good platform for learning.

Unions and their allies, according to Bodenheimer, need to abandon their "absurd justifications" for not reopening — "like denying there's any learning loss associated with distance learning or suggesting parents can be adequate substitutes for teachers" — and get back to work.

The teachers' unions' "tone-deaf and ridiculous" claims are undermining the proclaimed worth of teachers, she noted.

"If parents or anyone else could fill in so easily, why should we pay teachers more?" she asked. "Why should we value them as professionals?"

High school football player bashes Newsom in viral rant against lockdowns: 'What a wasted final year of school'



A California high school football player went viral for his compelling rant against Gov. Gavin Newsom's restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns that have shut down team sports. Isaiah Navarro, who attends Paraclete High School in Lancaster, voiced his frustrations on all of the paramount life experiences that he was robbed of in his "wasted final year of school."

"Zero offers, zero looks, zero commitments, zero time on campus, zero homecoming, zero prom, zero traditional graduation," Navarro tweeted this week. "What a wasted final year of school."

"Worked hard and dedicated for absolutely ZERO. Big shout out to @GavinNewsom! You got what you wanted," the young man wrote, and tagged the Democratic governor of California.

After the tweet went viral with over 12,000 retweets and nearly 60,000 likes, Navarro remarked that he was "honestly humbled by the retweets and positive comments."

"I know there are thousands in my shoes across this State," the football player stated. "I do not want anything given to me, just a chance to show my value and be an asset. Gray shirt, red shirt, grass, turf or dirt. I will play anywhere, God willing."

Honestly humbled by the retweets and positive comments. I know there are thousands in my shoes across this State.… https://t.co/KpsNxeBXCV
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Navarro was invited to appear on "Fox & Friends," where he said his plans for this fall are "working on myself" since the future of high school sports is in question in the Golden State.

His previous plans for his senior year during football were to win another defensive lineman of the year award and to be named MVP.

Navarro called out Newsom's double standard coronavirus lockdowns that allow private schools to participate in sports, but public schools are barred from athletics — putting kids at a disadvantage in being awarded athletic scholarships.

When asked if Newsom hurt him financially by costing him a scholarship, Navarro responded by saying, "Yeah, he did, with a lot of opportunities that could have come along with the process of going towards offers and scholarships. With that being taken away was a huge thing taken away from high school students. It's a big thing for us student athletes."

"This is our only chance to help our family," Navarro stated. "We want to support our family and relatives."

"We love the sport, but being that taken away is a huge part of our lives," he said.

Navarro said the reaction to his viral tweet has been "ridiculous."

"I didn't think I'd get this big of an audience to side with me and get this out," Navarro said.

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Newsom lifted the mandatory stay-at-home orders on Jan. 25, which allowed certain sports to return: cross country, golf, tennis, swimming, and diving.

However, time is running out on the 2021 high school football season. The California Interscholastic Federation said football's end date this spring can be as late as May 1, but leagues around the state say the final date is April 17, according to CBS Sports.

"You go from the end date and work backwards," Junipero Serra High School's football coach Patrick Walsh said. "If we can start sometime in early March that gives us 5-8 games. I think all reasonable players and coaches would be happy with that."

On Wednesday, Newsom defended his position.

"As I said, I not only have four kids who want to be educated, but they love sports," Newsom stated. "So I recognize all of the benefits — physical and mental — as well as the benefits to teachers and parents who have kids who are engaged in physical activities in terms of our responsibility to support those children as well. We want to see this happen."

"We want to do it safely and a lot of great data has been provided by the same groups that are suing us," the governor said. "If I was concerned about lawsuits, I would have collapsed a year ago. We receive dozens of them every week. And some of them are from folks who are very close to us. It's clarifying. It allows for focus. Some are specious, political. Others like this I think are quite legitimate in terms of what they ultimately want to achieve."

Gov. Gavin Newsom sends his children to private school when many California kids can't, sparking backlash



California Gov. Gavin Newsom sent his children back to their private school this week, while at the same time, the state has forbid hundreds of thousands of other kids from attending school in-person. Many people saw this development as an unjust double standard.

Newsom said his four children have returned to in-person learning at their private school, according to Politico.

"They're phasing back into school and we are phasing out of our very challenging distance learning that we've been doing, so many parents are doing up and down the state," Newsom said on Friday.

Newsom and his family lives in Sacramento County, where some schools have opened.

"All school grade levels in Sacramento County are permitted to conduct in-person instruction with required mitigation measures maintained (social distancing, face coverings, and sanitization) in compliance with California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Sacramento County Public Health," the Sacramento County website states.

Sacramento County was allowed by the state to reopen schools as of Oct. 13 after the county moved into the Red Tier 2, which means that there are "substantial" cases of coronavirus, but it is not "widespread," that would equate to much more stringent restrictions.

Politico noted that the "county's large public school districts — including San Juan Unified, which serves Newsom's neighborhood," have yet to reopen. The report added that San Juan Unified hopes to reopen in January.

There are nine counties, including highly populated Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties that have over 12.5 million residents, that the state will not allow schools to reopen fully for in-person instruction because they have been deemed to have "widespread" coronavirus cases, according to the California state COVID-19 website. Newsom has ruled that these counties may not reopen until they move into the "substantial" tier of COVID-19 cases for two consecutive weeks.

In counties with a lower adjusted coronavirus case rate and COVID-19 positivity rate, local school officials decide whether and when schools reopen. In schools that are not open, students must learn remotely.

"We absolutely believe that the social-emotional learning that occurs in the classroom is the best place for our kids, certainly the best place for their parents as well," Newsom said. "And so it is absolutely incumbent to do everything in our power to provide support to our districts so that they can safely reopen, emphasis on safely reopen."

Newsom's announcement that his children were going back to school raised eyebrows with many, and was met by backlash.

Melissa Melendez of the California state Senate wrote on Twitter, "Kids across California are locked down at home, struggling to get an education. So glad Newsom has been relieved of his 'challenging distance learning' situation. Talk about white privilege."

Buzz Patterson, candidate for California's 7th congressional district, tweeted, "This is yet another instance of the political elitism in CA. Our kids are still unable to attend but Gavin's kids can? 'Let them eat cake.' Newsom sends his children back to private school classrooms in California."

"California Governor Newsom is sending his 4 children to private schools with in-person instruction I'm glad his family has that opportunity All families should have that choice," Corey DeAngelis, director of school choice at the Reason Foundation, said.

"Democrat CA Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent his kids back to private school while many Californians still can't send their kids back to public school. This is who Democrats are. Hypocrites," conservative commentator Robby Starbuck said. "Vote Republican if you think we need to give parents school choice!"

Adam Housley, former MLB player turned journalist, tweeted, "This is the complete double standard that pisses so many of us off. So your kids can go back, but all the public kids can't. Differ t standards cause disgust and distrust in government."

"Gavin Newsom sends his children back to private school classrooms while California public schools remain closed. This is government double standards in a nutshell," one person wrote.