Even if you don’t live in an area where these candidates are on your ballot, this race affects you! Share these things far and wide. Help on a campaign! These people want to destroy our district and hand it over to vouchers and Prager U curriculum.
Thanks for your consistent coverage of the down ballot races - they have been targeted before and are being targeted once again. And when you hear "back to basics" it also means dismantling public education and stripping resources away from students and families. "Just teach readin' writin' and 'rithmetic and all will be well! 🫤
That bus logo, to your point, just signals all the candidates not to vote for, including Kelly Felton and Ziggy McBride in Tustin since apparently it's rinse and repeat from a graphic design POV. They all went through the Moms for Liberty bootcamp and used a "multiple choice" menu selection for their platform(s)...
Great article with one major error. Right now there are FOUR right wing extremist trustees on the board, so the majority...Lisa, Lisa, N-word Judy and Jennifer. CUSD is already drowning. We're toast if Ron Ruef, Jeanna Emmons AND Melissa Caldwell aren't elected.
Yes, but people like Judy Bullockus can't run again, or she isn't running again. I'm not going to take the time to see what CUSD term limits are, but it's looking life you can hold a max of 2 terms.
The ‘thousands of years’ rhetoric undoubtedly pertains to the bible and Jesus. The common maga trope is that all the founders beliefs stemmed from the their Christian beliefs. Never mind that nearly all were Deists at best if not outright skeptics. Heck, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson - made his own version of the bible. He cut out the entire Old Testament, most of the New Testament, kept the gospels which he edited to remove all supernatural elements (resurrection, water to wine, etc) l, and removed any mention of Jesus as divine or the son of god - just keeping the underlying philosophical and parable elements (love thy neighbor …). in the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797, signed by President John Adam’s asserted in the treaty that “the government of the United States of America, is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”.
Ron Ruef is scheduled to give a presentation at SouthOC4Democracy’s weekly protest next Wednesday Sept 23 at 11:30 at the corner of La Paz and Marguerite in Mission Viejo. Come out to listen and ask questions, then go home and tell all your friends and neighbors to support this excellent candidate with their vote.
I know you're a California transplant, and you don't have elementary school-aged kids, but AB 446, authored by my friend Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, took effect Jan. 1, 2024. It amended California Education Code § 51210 to require grades 1–6 to include handwriting instruction, specifically “cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels.”
I love that my 5th-grader can write in cursive, and she has much better handwriting than her old man, who developed a shorthand scribble when taking notes to quote coaches and players - before I finally bought a tape recorder.
One of my friends with school-aged children tried to argue that cursive isn't needed anymore. My response: Three years ago, my wife and I bought our home. Every page on the mortgage needed to be wet-signed. We refinanced earlier this year. Every page has to be wet-signed. When I write a check, it requires a wet signature.
Politically, if you sign a petition or sign someone's nomination forms or run for office, those forms require a wet signature. And when you file paperwork to run for office, the wet signatures are checked with the RoV database to validate the nominators.
The "thousands of years" reference is to the governance that took place before our founding fathers created our basis for the country, but that also references literal dynasties, empires, rulers, etc that were in no way good at what they did.
We need to teach children to at least sign their names in cursive. I just came from another meeting last night with the Canyon Dems where they had this fab speaker who is a professor at Fullerton College who closed her message with encouraging teaching cursive again as the curing of ballots in the under 35 group is nearly impossible due to the signatures *never matching*. I'll tell you, both of my adult daughters struggle with their signatures.
My girls were in CUSD many years ago and I don't recall them having that. They were also in Montessori where they probably learned a little of it, but either way I'm seeing it across the board not only with my girls but the youngsters I'm encountering when I volunteer at voter registration events. And I know people who cure ballots- there are 2 reasons they have to contact voters: they didn't sign the envelope OR the signature was too different from what they have on file.
To everybody: if you know anybody in the district who doesn’t have a clue about this election, please send them this. Or, if they want to vote for this crazy person, inform them that she is crazy.
Linda Shepard also co-chaired the last school closure committee for the district. Under her leadership, 7 of the 10 schools recommended for closure are/were Title I schools.
lol what. “The school board is on the brink of disaster”? So much sky-is-falling from the mewling liberal😂. Don’t let the middle aged white lady ruin everything!!!!😂
Even if you don’t live in an area where these candidates are on your ballot, this race affects you! Share these things far and wide. Help on a campaign! These people want to destroy our district and hand it over to vouchers and Prager U curriculum.
Thanks for your consistent coverage of the down ballot races - they have been targeted before and are being targeted once again. And when you hear "back to basics" it also means dismantling public education and stripping resources away from students and families. "Just teach readin' writin' and 'rithmetic and all will be well! 🫤
That bus logo, to your point, just signals all the candidates not to vote for, including Kelly Felton and Ziggy McBride in Tustin since apparently it's rinse and repeat from a graphic design POV. They all went through the Moms for Liberty bootcamp and used a "multiple choice" menu selection for their platform(s)...
Great article with one major error. Right now there are FOUR right wing extremist trustees on the board, so the majority...Lisa, Lisa, N-word Judy and Jennifer. CUSD is already drowning. We're toast if Ron Ruef, Jeanna Emmons AND Melissa Caldwell aren't elected.
Judy sucks, but—weirdly—she's not as extreme as the three MAGA xombies.
Yes, but people like Judy Bullockus can't run again, or she isn't running again. I'm not going to take the time to see what CUSD term limits are, but it's looking life you can hold a max of 2 terms.
No term limits.
And if you think no one’s paying attention, think again.
I was at the Denaults in SJC this morning and a couple of the clerks were discussing this.
Spread the word.
I'm curious what they were saying?
Not sure. I think, as far as I could tell , they were in support of “parental rights “ but unclear about what that meant.
The ‘thousands of years’ rhetoric undoubtedly pertains to the bible and Jesus. The common maga trope is that all the founders beliefs stemmed from the their Christian beliefs. Never mind that nearly all were Deists at best if not outright skeptics. Heck, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson - made his own version of the bible. He cut out the entire Old Testament, most of the New Testament, kept the gospels which he edited to remove all supernatural elements (resurrection, water to wine, etc) l, and removed any mention of Jesus as divine or the son of god - just keeping the underlying philosophical and parable elements (love thy neighbor …). in the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797, signed by President John Adam’s asserted in the treaty that “the government of the United States of America, is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”.
Ron Ruef is scheduled to give a presentation at SouthOC4Democracy’s weekly protest next Wednesday Sept 23 at 11:30 at the corner of La Paz and Marguerite in Mission Viejo. Come out to listen and ask questions, then go home and tell all your friends and neighbors to support this excellent candidate with their vote.
So he’s a democrat
Thank you for shining a light on CUSD school board. We need all hands on deck to get Ron Ruef, Jeanna Emmons, and Melissa Caldwell elected!
I know you're a California transplant, and you don't have elementary school-aged kids, but AB 446, authored by my friend Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, took effect Jan. 1, 2024. It amended California Education Code § 51210 to require grades 1–6 to include handwriting instruction, specifically “cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels.”
I love that my 5th-grader can write in cursive, and she has much better handwriting than her old man, who developed a shorthand scribble when taking notes to quote coaches and players - before I finally bought a tape recorder.
One of my friends with school-aged children tried to argue that cursive isn't needed anymore. My response: Three years ago, my wife and I bought our home. Every page on the mortgage needed to be wet-signed. We refinanced earlier this year. Every page has to be wet-signed. When I write a check, it requires a wet signature.
Politically, if you sign a petition or sign someone's nomination forms or run for office, those forms require a wet signature. And when you file paperwork to run for office, the wet signatures are checked with the RoV database to validate the nominators.
And yes, the coded language is ridiculous.
In addition to writing in cursive, it is sometimes necessary for educated individuals to be able to read it.
Yeah, I didn’t understand the rant against writing in cursive
The "thousands of years" reference is to the governance that took place before our founding fathers created our basis for the country, but that also references literal dynasties, empires, rulers, etc that were in no way good at what they did.
We need to teach children to at least sign their names in cursive. I just came from another meeting last night with the Canyon Dems where they had this fab speaker who is a professor at Fullerton College who closed her message with encouraging teaching cursive again as the curing of ballots in the under 35 group is nearly impossible due to the signatures *never matching*. I'll tell you, both of my adult daughters struggle with their signatures.
My kiddo is in CUSD schools and has had cursive the last 3 years.
My girls were in CUSD many years ago and I don't recall them having that. They were also in Montessori where they probably learned a little of it, but either way I'm seeing it across the board not only with my girls but the youngsters I'm encountering when I volunteer at voter registration events. And I know people who cure ballots- there are 2 reasons they have to contact voters: they didn't sign the envelope OR the signature was too different from what they have on file.
To everybody: if you know anybody in the district who doesn’t have a clue about this election, please send them this. Or, if they want to vote for this crazy person, inform them that she is crazy.
Linda Shepard also co-chaired the last school closure committee for the district. Under her leadership, 7 of the 10 schools recommended for closure are/were Title I schools.
She’s on this year’s committee too!
She is endorsed by Judy "N-word" Bullockus. Need we say more!
lol what. “The school board is on the brink of disaster”? So much sky-is-falling from the mewling liberal😂. Don’t let the middle aged white lady ruin everything!!!!😂