00:00:10.000We talked about the need to get involved on a local level, how nasty, how awful it can be.
00:00:14.000I hope this is an inspiration for all of you to get involved in your school boards and keep the parents movement going.
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00:00:36.000Willoughby from Texas, Isaac from California, William from Alabama, Lanny from California, Jovita from California, Art from California, Barbara from Tennessee, Eric from Florida, Bernard from Virginia, Christine from Georgia, and Alexander from Delaware.
00:01:27.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:13.000And then I know Bryce and Steve will be able to add all kinds of insight to it.
00:02:18.000In our community, the Canejo Unified School District, CVUSD, there's two newspapers in the Canejo Valley where I reside, and as does Bryce and Steve.
00:02:28.000These two newspapers, one is The Guardian, the other is The Acorn.
00:02:31.000The Guardian did a paper, did an article called Third Grade Teacher Promotes Gender Confusion in the Classroom.
00:02:39.000And it was an article writing on behalf of Steve Schneider, who's on the program with us, who was standing in defense of his third grade daughter, who was told by the teacher to, now these are the new pronouns of this fellow student in your class, and this is a book I want to read to you on transgender, and then expose the children to a video without parental permission.
00:03:13.000The Acorn, which is a defender of, you know, what I would say, the California Teachers Association and the district itself, took great offense to it.
00:03:22.000Then the news channels came out, CBS, they did a whole thing on it.
00:03:25.000And then there was graffiti at that elementary school, and they blamed Steve Schneider for it.
00:03:32.000He wasn't even there, so it was crazy.
00:03:35.000I'm wondering if they're going to arrest the people that said they witnessed him doing it, which is why the police searched his home to begin with.
00:03:52.000The superintendent of schools wrote a letter to every parent in the district blaming the newspaper, The Guardian, and saying we were the ones responsible for the graffiti.
00:04:03.000And then Joel Kirkpatrick, who is the Kilpatrick, he's the one who is the editor for this Guardian, wrote a great response.
00:06:11.000So inserting extra curriculum unapproved by parents that then sparks all these other questions and basically cutting in line for where a parent otherwise would be having these very mature conversations with their child.
00:06:27.000Pretty much, but we're missing an important point I want to bring up.
00:06:30.000Before the teacher decided that she was going to show the video, she went to the principal of Maple Elementary School and asked if she needed permission to show the video.
00:06:42.000And the principal, from the way I understand it, from what was explained to my wife, is that the principal told her, no, you don't need permission to go ahead and show the video.
00:06:52.000Wait, so the teacher actually did something right.
00:07:04.000And this teacher I've known through two children now at that school, and I'm actually pretty shocked she did this without communicating with us.
00:08:04.000I mean, it wasn't like God Speak was your fellowship, but we've come alongside the community and our neighbors defending their right to be parents to their children.
00:08:17.000He's one of the bravest guys I've ever met.
00:08:19.000So that's where this story gets interesting, in my opinion.
00:08:23.000It's notable that they were putting this into a third grader's classroom, totally violating parental notification and parental rights.
00:08:31.000But then, Steve, then you fell victim to what so many other parents listening to this are afraid of, and so many other parents listening to this have also fallen victim to, which is the snares of this mob, this cartel almost.
00:08:49.000You know, I mean, it goes pretty, it goes pretty wild.
00:08:53.000After the paper came out, there was a lot of pushback in the community, but within days of that, there was some graffiti put on the school.
00:12:43.000Well, let's first get the board out of there, and then we'll move on to the next boards in California.
00:12:48.000And then once we flip this state and we put the right people in the school board to help our children avoid things like this, then we'll see where it goes from there.
00:12:57.000But for now, victory is going to be getting rid of CVUSD board members.
00:13:03.000Additionally, they think that they own our kids.
00:13:07.000That's the big thing here is they believe that they own our children.
00:13:11.000And what they also believe is that the majority of parents and teachers are with them, and they are not.
00:13:18.000So victory here is getting other parents and the teachers who are afraid to stand up and guys like Steve are leading that because, you know, you have to be willing to take some of these arrows because they come in full force against you.
00:13:32.000And you have to be very clear on what they're doing.
00:13:35.000They are advocating for child abuse that, you know, starts with this sort of stuff and ends in chemical castration and mutilation of kids.
00:13:45.000That's really what they are pushing here.
00:13:50.000This is, we don't have a lot of time, but the superintendent of school sent this out to every parent in the community.
00:13:58.000And we can have the letter available for folks to read in its entirety.
00:14:02.000But he basically blames the newspaper, the alternative newspaper in our town, which is the one that reports well.
00:14:10.000And he comes after it, but never addresses any with clarity, any allegations or anything with evidence towards the paper itself.
00:14:18.000And then the editor of the Guardian, his response was tremendous.
00:14:24.000And if we can take a second, can we just read it?
00:14:27.000He says, to the Canejo Valley community, in response to the Canejo Guardian story, third grade teacher promotes gender confusion in classroom, CVUSD Superintendent Mark McLaughlin emailed a response apparently to all CVUSD parents and employees in which he resorted to bluster and slander because the facts are entirely against him.
00:14:45.000McLaughlin did not even attempt to argue that the Guardian article is incorrect in any particular.
00:14:51.000We challenge McLaughlin to point to any inaccuracy or error in our article or in any article the Guardian has published about CVUSD.
00:14:59.000We call on McLaughlin to cease and desist making baseless statements and retract his comments, or we'll bring legal action against him personally and in his capacity as CVUSD superintendent.
00:15:09.000The facts of the story stand undisputed.
00:15:11.000A Maple Elementary third grade teacher whose name we elected not to publish in the first article presented a girl student to a class as a boy with a new name.
00:15:20.000We elected not to publish the child's new name, then showed a video promoting transgenderism called Call Me Max.
00:15:26.000As stated in the article, the Guardian sought comment from the principal, Patty Lewis, and the Parent Faculty Association and received no response from either.
00:15:33.000The article came out because a concerned father, and that's Steve, of a child in this third grade class was so troubled that this had happened without parent permission or notification that he attended and spoke at the CVUSD school board meeting.
00:15:47.000He requested to speak with board members, but they would not contact him.
00:15:51.000Principal Patty Lewis and the third grade teacher were similarly dismissive, according to this father, which led him to approach the Canejo Guardian.
00:15:59.000After verifying what had happened, we published an accurate story, which McLaughlin has not sought to challenge directly because it is true and factual.
00:16:06.000Perhaps more importantly, McLaughlin's letter marks a turning point for CVSD schools.
00:16:11.000The superintendent declares publicly in his own words that all students in every grade level in any class, in any CVUSD school, can at any time be taught transgenderism for the sake of inclusion.
00:16:22.000And parents don't need to be notified that this is happening.
00:16:25.000This is coming from a primary public servant over the area's public school children.
00:16:30.000And the article goes on: it's accurate, and yet it seems as though the CVUSD thinks that there isn't going to be any backlash and that they control the major paper.
00:16:40.000But we just basically said, Charlie, if we can get national attention on this like we did in the Loudoun County, guys like Steve, that man's brave, and I want to stand behind him.
00:16:51.000It's just remarkable what he's done, and he deserves accolades and support from the people.
00:16:55.000Do you anticipate, Bryce or Steve, a good amount of people showing up to school boards now and really caring about this because of it?
00:17:48.000So, Bryce, you and I were texting when this was bubbling up a couple weeks ago, and you said you were getting kind of competing pieces of advice.
00:17:56.000And I told you, you got to fight punchback twice as hard.
00:17:59.000What have you kind of learned through this kind of for other parents that are maybe in the middle or on the edge of publicizing or standing against this kind of nonsense in public schools?
00:18:11.000Yeah, so first, listen, my natural inclination, I'm a combat sports athlete, right?
00:18:16.000So my natural inclination is to lean in and press in and fight these things.
00:18:20.000But I want to be, like Rob says, dangerous and wise, you know, and we have to strike the appropriate tones of these things.
00:18:26.000But the real thing here is we need other people to be safe and know that they can participate and should push back because they don't own our kids.
00:18:37.000And the teachers and the parents need to see the example.
00:18:41.000Once you do stand up, look, these people are wimps at the end of the day.
00:18:45.000And in the last school board meeting, the people that were trying to dox all of the people that were supporting Steve and tried to lay out the people that are behind the alternative paper here and naming names and all that stuff, they were crying at the school board meeting.
00:19:02.000We need to stand up and we need to do it bravely because they will back down.
00:19:09.000They had the audacity to call Steve a Nazi.
00:19:38.000That's all that they can do is attack and say silly things like that.
00:19:43.000They blanket the parking lot of the church with flyers, while we're in worshiping.
00:19:48.000They're out there saying, you know, racist, fascist, bigot, on and on and on.
00:19:54.000And they just, and then they're sending out postcards all throughout the community with the same accusations simply because you're standing on behalf of parental rights and you're not bowing to something that is chemical castration for children and exposing them.
00:20:37.000So, but let's talk about like the nationalization of this, meaning the national implications.
00:20:42.000There's people in Florida right now listening to this, people in Virginia, people in Wisconsin, and they're debating whether or not they should stand and fight.
00:20:51.000And they have to also realize this is a long fight.
00:20:53.000This is going to take a fair amount of struggle.
00:20:57.000What would your advice be to them, first, Rob, and then we can throw it back to them?
00:21:01.000It's perfect timing on the question because as I was telling you about Dr. Shawnee Anderson, and they've come after her and they're trying to get her license and they've filed a complaint.
00:22:10.000And I think everyone has to look at that and say, this is more valuable to me, the freedom of my children and my grandchildren, than my temporary, you know, what it would be, comfort or safety or security.
00:22:24.000That really isn't any of those things.
00:22:27.000They're just causing you to compromise.
00:22:29.000And so the bravery of Shawnee, the bravery of Steve, they're putting it on the line and it's going to come at a cost.
00:22:36.000But listen, whatever that cost is, it pales in comparison to the celestial article of freedom that is the most valuable thing you can give your children.
00:24:30.000And I'll add for years we've been hostage to some of these evil ideologies and people have not stood up and fought because they thought that, okay, I guess this is what we just have to go along with.
00:24:41.000And we have to stop wanting to be liked by people who are promoting evil.
00:24:54.000So guys like Steve, you know, need to be standing up.
00:24:57.000And the more Steve's we have, you know, that take some of those first arrows and expose the weakness of these people and the fact that the only thing that they have to add is to call you a Nazi or a bigot or a racist or a whatever transphobe.
00:25:11.000You know, once that gets exposed, then more people will come along and say, get out of here with that ridiculous stuff.
00:25:17.000I'll never be ashamed for standing for my children ever.
00:25:21.000So Bryce, I'm interested in one wrinkle of this.
00:25:24.000If I'm not mistaken, you homeschool your children.
00:25:52.000And we all need to come together to provide opportunities for people who have to, you know, their only alternative a lot of people feel is to put them in public school.
00:26:01.000And I think it's, you know, Dennis Prager says this about universities, that you're playing Russian roulette with your kids, sending them to a university where all chambers are filled except for one.
00:26:13.000And the truth is, is that now they brought this down into public schools, and they're conditioning these kids very young into just, you know, terrible confusion and evil thoughts.
00:26:26.000We care about truth and we care about other people's kids.
00:26:36.000But Rob, if you're a Christian, which if you're homeschooling, you're probably a Christian, but that's not always true, but probably we're called to be salt and light.
00:27:18.000And instead of them being a pawn for a social experiment, we protect them from that.
00:27:24.000And as we're watching, you know, FDA approval of this and that, all these other things, all this stuff coming down on our kids, we're going to stand in the gap on their behalf.
00:27:33.000And that's what every Christian should do.
00:27:35.000The Bible commands that, you know, Matthew 16, 18, upon this rock, I'll build my public square, my assembly, my city hall, stepping in to that realm of culture that decides the welfare, which politics, like you and I both know, highest form of community, morality and sociability.
00:27:55.000We contend for the welfare of our city and the school.
00:28:09.000We've been called to love our neighbors ourselves.
00:28:12.000And that's why it's absolutely pertinent that every Christian engage in these topics and should be at those school board meetings on behalf of our brother here, Steve, who may not go to your church and may not profess faith in what you believe, but he has found respite, strength, and encouragement from our fellowship because he's our neighbor and we love that man.
00:28:37.000So, yeah, Steve, can you talk about that?
00:28:39.000You know, who else has come to your support or aid outside of Godspeak?
00:28:46.000That is a long list, but there's two that stick out the most.
00:28:50.000And I got to say, my friend Carrie really helped me.
00:29:14.000And even today, I'm getting phone calls from people and other people in the community that have some pretty horrible stories of things that, you know, I'm pretty shocked.
00:29:23.000And I'm certain that the truth is going to start coming out here real quick because it's bad.
00:29:27.000But everyone in my community gives me support.
00:29:30.000And I know when people come up to me on the street and tell me, hey, man, thank you for doing that.
00:29:35.000This community has my back and I have theirs.
00:29:39.000I got to give him kudos because he came to service.
00:29:42.000Hey, steps foot in a Christian church.
00:29:44.000He stands up in front of the congregation, sweet as a button, but he comes on Father's Day.
00:29:49.000I can't think of a better illustration on Father's Day than to have a dad who is willing to bear the slings and arrows of the misery of Antifa and the secular progressive left and the alpha mafia coming after him.
00:30:04.000And there he is, just standing strong.
00:30:06.000What a great Father's Day illustration.
00:31:23.000Yeah, there's some speculation that that's the case, and we've got folks following up on that, which is it's not surprising.
00:31:30.000I mean, when we have Bill Federer come on and he talks about how you start a revolution and you set fire to the front of the store and sell fire extinguishers at the back of the store, yeah.
00:31:41.000But whatever they're doing, whatever their motivations are, the one thing I do know is this is bringing the community together on a topic that has been ignored.
00:31:50.000And everyone knows it's there, but they were just hoping it'd go away and it's not.
00:31:53.000And now these folks are brave and are standing.
00:31:56.000And Steve's the first penguin off the iceberg.
00:32:25.000People need to get involved and start paying attention.
00:32:29.000I mean, that's the biggest thing that you can do is go to these school board meetings because they run these things intentionally long and they do the worst stuff at the end of these things.
00:32:40.000They drip with contempt towards parents.
00:32:43.000And so we need to really be a threat to them.
00:32:49.000And I mean that in the show up sense and proclaim that they do not own our kids.
00:32:55.000And we have to do that at the local level.
00:32:57.000And that's why this is of national importance.
00:33:01.000I would also add, let the superintendent of schools, McLaughlin, Canejo Valley Unified School District know of your displeasure if you want to let them.