‘Chaos’ ensues as left-wing protesters in California disrupt school board’s workshop explaining CRT ban

Left-wing protesters in California crashed a workshop at a middle school organized by the school board which recently banned Critical Race Theory (CRT).

The Temecula Valley Unified School District board hosted the event on March 22 to explain its decision to ban CRT. A six-person panel of experts was invited to discuss exactly what CRT is, how it currently creeps into the classroom and why it shouldn’t be part of the K-12 curriculum, reports Fox News.

However, the demonstrators, which included left-wing activists, parents, students and staff, claimed the CRT ban would eventually lead to a complete ban of African-American History and that the board’s decisions were making the district less inclusive.

The protestors were so disruptive that the panelists’ comments were drowned out by yelling and heated debate among audience members. At one point security removed at least three people to prevent further disruption.

Board Clerk Jen Wiersma and Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky explained in a statement that the individuals were removed for making inappropriate comments directed at other attendees, violating the rules of conduct for public comments.

Wiersma told Fox News she was disheartened by the behavior of the protesters as the board simply wanted to be transparent about its decisions and allow for polite, open discussion around the issue.

“It was evident that there was a plan in the room for disruption and chaos and hopefully to cancel the meeting,” she said.

Wiersma added that she, her supporters and other board members have suffered from harassment and intimidation tactics, including the distribution of online memes with “Wanted” posters with local people’s faces, doxing and calls to boycott local businesses.

But Wiersma is determined to continue speaking out.

“They want to cancel people and make them afraid to be a part of this,” she said. “And I’m going to continue to fight for those voices and those people because that’s what America’s about. We need to have the conversations.”

Wiersma ran for school board because she wants to help educators get back to the basics in the classroom and stop the teaching of content which “weaponizes skin color” and “bullies kids into hating themselves.”

“Classrooms devoid of the ideological division, that was our whole entire point,” she said. “Not to censor conversations.

“Students are allowed at an age-appropriate level to discuss what CRT is, but we don’t use it as a lens to determine how every discussion and how every historical event has happened. That’s the difference.”

Similar protests from leftist ideologues have occurred around the nation.

As reported previously by The Lion, protesters disrupted a conservative book’s launch party in New York earlier this month by reportedly throwing drinks, damaging books and harassing attendees as they were leaving.

Transgender activists unsuccessfully tried to shut down a speaking engagement Monday at the University of Pittsburgh by NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who was set to talk about her experience competing against transgender athlete Lia Thomas.

Protesters reportedly threatened violence, harassed students and even blocked traffic, but the event went on without any delays.