An article by Wall Street Journal editor Allysia Finley bluntly detailed how California was "trying to exile parents" from a village in allusion to Hillary Clinton's quote "It takes a village to raise a child" in the context of promoting gender ideology to children, even in minority communities whose culture has predominantly been binary and heterosexual.
In particular, Finley focused on what she called the state's "crusade" against minority parents in the town of Chino, a predominantly minority working-class community east of Los Angeles.
California Calls Parents from Minority Groups 'Bigots'
"Last week California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School Board of Education over its new policy—adopted by a 4-1 vote at a July 20 meeting—that requires schools to inform parents if their child requests to use a name different from that on his birth certificate or to be referred to by opposite-sex or nonstandard pronouns," she wrote.
Bonta's lawsuit contended that Chino Valley's policy has allegedly violated students' putative right to so-called "informational privacy" under California's constitution. This prevents teachers from notifying parents of misbehavior or bullying, as well as the issuing of report cards.
Finley added that liberals in the state claimed Chino Valley's policy was "driven by right-wing bigots" despite the district not being truly conservative, with Republicans only making up about a third of voters in the area, and only 12% of the students there were white. She also detailed that the policy was actually a common cause for "parents of all colors and political stripes" to get behind after complaining about school employees encouraging their children to adopt opposite-sex identities.
Cecil Howell, a single father of three and "a first generation African and Hispanic Muslim American," wrote in a letter to the local newspaper that despite him being a "poster boy" for being a liberal, he argued that parental entitlement to full access of every aspect of their children's health information "has been the foregone assumption in [the] country for over 200 years."
However, in the state's defense, Bonita argued the state needed to intervene to protect children from "intolerant and abusive parents." Bonita also claimed the Chino Valley school district also threatened what he said was "gender-nonconforming" students with emotional, physical, and psychological harm.
"In short, the state of California is deeming parents who don't subscribe to the left's woke ideology a mortal danger to their children," Finley retorted. "The lawsuit encapsulates the popular view of left-wing governments: Parents can't be trusted with their own children."
Same Game on the East Coast
Moving on to the other side of the United States, Finley also detailed the instruction New York state's education department imposed on schools, where they should keep the information about a child's gender identity from parents.
The state believed, she explained, that students are, in the department's words, "in charge of their gender transition" and that the school's role was to support them in undergoing such transition while leaving parents with no say about the whole process.
Finley also detailed how the National School Boards Association convinced US President Joe Biden in 2021 to qualify parents' protests over school closures, mask mandates, and leftist curriculum as alleged "threats and acts of violence" tantamount to "domestic terrorism."
"Education bureaucrats don't want their authority questioned," she added.
Russian Roots Running Deep
Finley then detailed how the political left attempted to abolish the concept of a family, starting with Karl Marx himself. She also detailed how some communist sympathizers gave praise to the Soviet state-run nursery system during the Cold War.
"The Soviet belief that neither the individual nor the individual family exists in isolation and that it takes a community to raise a child, resonate today as we struggle with increased working burdens," University of Kansas professor Ani Kokobobo wrote in a Washington Post 2017 article.
Finley further argued that the purpose of Soviet nurseries was not to "liberate" women but to usurp them and indoctrinate their children as young as 6 months old that they were merely cogs in the machine and nothing more, something that could be similarly and eerily observed with "the Democrats' underlying goal" in promoting universal preschool and child care.
Families Leave the Village
In the Biden administration's effort to increase public school social workers, as well as increasing the funding for so-called "full-service community schools," Finley noted that they were done at the expense of families who are concerned with how their children are being taught at school.
Citing a Stanford study, she detailed that public school enrollment in California declined by 271,000 between 2019 and 2022, and it was not just because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The underlying reason is that parents want a say in the education of their children and are tired of leftists telling them to shut up," Finley concluded.
On the other hand, in a previous interview with Fox News Digital, Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) president Sonja Shaw called California's lawsuit against the district an example of "government outreach" that has tried to "shut parents out" of their children's lives.
"Once again this is government overreach and the political cartel of Bonta, [California Governor Gavin] Newsom and [California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony] Thurmond is using their muscle and taxpayer's dollars to shut parents out of their children's lives," she added.
Bonta did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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