‘The teacher Fox News warns you about’: Parents demand end to covert LGBT club in California elementary school
California parents were furious when they discovered their elementary school was secretly hosting a pro-LGBT club – and hiding it from parents.
The parents, represented by the National Center…
California parents were furious when they discovered their elementary school was secretly hosting a pro-LGBT club – and hiding it from parents.
The parents, represented by the National Center for Law & Policy (NCLP), sent a cease-and-desist letter to Elk Grove Unified School District (EGUSD) on March 21 calling the UBU (You Be You) meetings a “district-sanctioned, rogue, unregulated lunchtime club.”
“All of the evidence points to the fact that Elk Grove Unified School District’s UBU Club at Pleasant Grove Elementary School was intentionally designed and planned to be a covert child sexuality club whose very purpose was to deceive and undermine parents and families whose viewpoints regarding human sexuality differ from the extreme ideological and political agendas of the Youth Development Office, aligned administrators and rogue teachers like Daniel Bishop,” NCLP wrote.
“The club met on campus during lunch,” the letter explained, “allowing Bishop to dodge the normal requirement of parental notification and consent via permission slips.
“It was insinuated that [Pleasant Grove Elementary School] students should not tell their parents about the UBU Club.”
The California Family Council even found evidence dating back to Nov. 2023 that Bishop was forming the UBU Club and seemed to relish being “the teacher Fox News warns you about.”
When parents learned about the club and raised their concerns, school leadership “tried to silence parental opposition by implying that the reason parents oppose these secret sexuality clubs must be because they are somehow biased, discriminatory or anti-LGBTQ+,” NCLP alleged. “[Administrators] were not remaining neutral but were exhibiting government hostility towards religion in violation of the First Amendment.”
Parents also made their voices heard at the EGUSD’s March school board meeting.
“The teacher came in and spoke about how boys like boys and girls like girls,” testified Brittani Cortina, who has a 2nd-grader and a 4th-grader at Pleasant Grove Elementary. “Don’t keep secrets from parents.”
“These little minds just can’t wrap their heads around what these types of things mean to them,” said another mother, Pamela Davila.
“Permission slips are required for gardening club, so why not for this club?” asked a third parent, Heidi Moore.
“It was an inappropriate situation, and parents felt that it was inappropriate for their children to be invited secretly without them knowing,” Moore continued. “The district isn’t really giving any answers on what was happening, what the guidelines were, what the curriculum was.”
The cease-and-desist letter further outlines the legal precedent establishing parental rights in education, including the right to opt out.
“EGUSD effectively circumvents legal safeguards allowing adult teachers with ideological sexual agendas [to provide] unregulated sexual content to 8 to 12-year-old minors, completely without parental knowledge or consent,” it concludes.
NCLP has given EGUSD until April 10 to suspend the UBU Club or risk further legal action.
