Posted on 01/13/2024 6:34:00 PM PST by Fiji Hill
More than 1,000 people took to the grassy area in front of the Miller Park Amphitheater in Fontana on Saturday, Jan. 13, to protest against school district policies they say socially transition children without parental consent.
The crowd waved signs calling for an end to abortion and proclaiming their rights as parents to be involved in their children’s lives. Several American flags peaked over the heads of the crowd decked in T-shirts with sayings such as “Leave Our Kids Alone” in large bold letters as a Christian worship band opened the rally.
The rally and march Saturday joined a growing list of public demonstrations in communities where school policies that promote student privacy have been attacked by critics for denying parents information about their children.
Aaron J. Hurley with White Rose Resistance, a Christian activist group, took to the stage Saturday and said he was there to call for the protection of children and to “get us riled up and to get our hearts turned in the right direction,” before the group started its march through the streets of Fontana and around the city’s civic center.
In a news release issued prior to the rally and march, White Rose Resistance and another political activist group, Not On Our Watch Inland Empire, accused the Fontana Unified School District board and Planned Parenthood of collaborating to infringe on parents rights, alleging that staff members refer to students by different names and genders without parental knowledge or approval.
The release also called out Planned Parenthood for its sex education curriculum related to gender identity.
Irene Salazar, senior vice president of Community Education and Outreach for Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, said that while the group is proud to work with a number of school districts throughout the county, it does not currently work with Fontana Unified.
“(Our) curriculum is evidence-based and compliant with the California Healthy Youth Act,” Salazar said in a text Saturday. “Repeated studies have shown that students who know more about their body, their rights, and how to take care of their reproductive health are happier, healthier adults. We do not, however, currently work with Fontana Unified and are unsure where this group got this information.”
Members of the Fontana Unified school board could not immediately be reached for comment.
Parental rights activists are pushing Fontana Unified to adopt a parent notification policy — such as the one passed by the Chino Valley Unified School District board last year — to the agenda for its February meeting.
Hurley said his group has been pushing the district for several months to discuss the policy and has been shut down several times.
Earlier this week, state Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a legal alert warning school districts against policies that require schools to inform parents whenever a student requests to use a name or pronoun different from that on their birth certificate or official records. Such policies violate the California Constitution and state laws safeguarding students’ civil rights, Bonta said in a Thursday news release.
Bonta sued Chino Valley Unified after it passed its parent notification policy in July 2023, and in October a judge granted a state-requested preliminary injunction preventing the district from implementing portions of the policy.
In addition to debate over parental rights in Fontana, there’s a legal fight over whether Planned Parenthood will be welcomed to town.
Planned Parenthood sued the city late last year after the Fontana City Council enacted a moratorium barring construction of a new clinic there.
The suit filed in San Bernardino Superior Court alleges the city violated its citizens’ constitutional rights by “illegally blocking the construction of a Planned Parenthood health center,” the nonprofit has said.
A hearing on the suit is scheduled in February 2024.
Title correction: the number is 1,000.
I’m happy this kind of subject matter is now being openly opposed by everyday people. They now realize just how harmful this ‘let’s pretend’ lifestyle has become.
Glad to see the protest in our area. I live in La Verne... I’m sure our church members were there today. Calvary Chapel Chino Hills is very ACTIVE in events like this.
I’m 82 and in poor health or I would be there in a heart beat.
very good. Christians need to stand and peaceably resist these depredations against our kids. Fontana was a very solid town back in the day. had many good HS competitions against the Steelers in the old 70’s CBL.
Nothing will change until those elected fools are not in power.
Didn’t parental notification for everything used to be the default? Yet these parents are somehow deemed to be dangerous revolutionaries.
Looks like some folks are about to get a knock on their doors from the FIB!
After all that trouble they went through to conceal what they were doing...
Question: what is Planned Parenthood doing with pushing the homosexualization of our children? Haven't they figured out that they'll lose money when there isn't anybody left who can make babies for them to kill?
PP is cashing in on gender affirming care. Drugs, surgeries. They are a vile group.
Good on you for standing up for parental rights and for the safety of our children. You did a good thing.
I think what we need tofo though is organize groups of families, perhaps by church or neighborhood and Crete home schooling groups that can share the load and experience everything on track. There are curriculums available to help home schoolers. Let’s face it our public schools are destroying lives and families. They are indoctrinated and mutilating, perversion, and dumbing down. They are harmful and need to be ended.
Knocking on doors as the FIB in Fontana not a smart move.
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