Do you REALLY know what's happening in Conejo Valley schools?
Our PURPOSE is to provide a space to inform the public and share the TRUTH about what has really been happening in our schools. This is a collaboration of countless parents and community members speaking out in concern for their children in the Conejo Valley public school system under the incumbent leadership.
We have had ENOUGH!!!
This is what they DO NOT want you to see.
SEE: evidence via social media screenshots, email, FOIA documents etc.
HEAR: Personal experience, opinions, and the lasting effects on families.
MEET: The key players that have destroyed this district.
We have been ignored, bullied, and silenced by the district for years
and OUR CHILDREN DESERVE TO HAVE A VOICE!
District leaders have abused their power, using websites, community emails and social media platforms to spread misinformation and mislead parents in a desperate attempt to hide the truth to keep thier high paying gov jobs! This page is dedicated to exposing the individuals putting children in harms way.
We are pro-restoring public education and pro-staff that protect children and promote academics above indoctirnation. We want to restore public education to a safe and healthy environment for ALL children.
Why would this many parents go through this much trouble to voice our position and concern if it where not true? Because these are OUR children, not theirs!!
CURRENT CALL TO ACTION: VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT!!!
***Much more to come: This website is currently underconstruction***
MEET THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ELECTION 2024
JUST SAY NO TO LAUREN GILL
CONEJO VALLEY USD BOARD TRUSTEE
Lauren Gill's actions as a board trustee demonstrate that she is one of the most progressive and liberal voices CVUSD has ever seen. Despite consistent feedback from both teachers and parents, she has persistently advocated for implementing controversial, progressive ideologies into CVUSD's curriculum and policies. Now, as she runs against Frank Enderle in Area 5, Newbury Park, voters have the opportunity to correct the misdirection of our schools and return to the values that created a once thriving school district in the Conejo.
JUST SAY NO TO KAREN SYLVESTER
Conejo Valley USD Board Trustee
Karen Sylvester has a proven track record of consistently voting for progressive and extreme liberal ideologies and agendas in school board meetings. She supports keeping parents uninformed about their children's well-being and mental health. She is running against Nancy VanVolkinburg in Area 1, Westlake Village.
Meet Lauren Gill: CVUSD Board Trustee
FAILING ACADEMICS and BUDGETS Under GILL's LEADERSHIP
CVUSD is officially a sinking ship. Once known for "academic excellence" and a well-rounded education, this district is now a shadow of its former self. Mrs. Gill is misrepresenting data and misleading you about the true state of our schools by reporting graduation rates as success instead of test scores. Our children are falling behind academically, while the Board just increased the superintendent's salary and benefits to over $400K per year! Meanwhile, they cut crucial positions like PE teachers and classroom aides, all while asking parents—many of whom are already struggling financially—to contribute even more to support the bare minimum resources for their children. With Deputy Superintendent of Business Services Victor Hayek forecasting bleak budgets, prepare to be asked to dig deeper into your pockets to provide basic school necessities while also covering the astronomical salary of Superintendent Mark McLaughlin. Given the substantial taxes and funding directed to California schools over the decades, why are we still being asked for more? This is a clear result of failing leadership and gross mismanagement of funds. It’s time to hold them accountable for inflating payrolls in a failing district. This Board’s priorities are alarmingly misguided, evident in their funneling of funds into positions unrelated to academic improvement. Recently, CVUSD hired an Assistant Superintendent of Student Services with an increased focus on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) at over $200K per year, and another for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at $150K+ per year. For the sake of our children, enough is enough!
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Progressive Liberal Activist: Promoting and Approving of "Pornographic" Books in Schools
Lauren Gill has been very outspoken in her opposition to place asterisks next to books with graphic child rape and other extreme violence. She has fought to keep parents in the dark and uninformed about the content of this CVUSD approved book, "The Bluest Eye", with 140+ copies at Westlake HS (most likely means mandatory reading). This is only one example of books with adult content allowed in our schools. This is not about "banning books", this is about approving age-appropriate reading materials for children. What may be a profoundly good book with "mature" content, meant to be read by adults, does not need to be in a public school setting. See Conejo Valley on "Take back the Classroom" link here to see what other age inappropriate, obscene and violent literature is in our district libraries and classrooms. Here you will see the excerpts from "The Bluest Eye", you decide should we be notified of the content as parents? This election, VOTE your opinion. See this Lauren Gill Tweet/retweet about allowing children to read books with sexual content, also further implying it is the schools responsibility to give your child the sexual verbiage to communicate in life. They continuously undermine our parental rights any chance they get.
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Age Inappropriate and Medically Inaccurate Sex Education (7th & 9th grd) and Co- Ed Human Growth and Dev. (4-6th grd) Policies for Children.
Lauren Gill voted for the extremely controversial comprehensive sex education curriculum, funded by planned parenthood, against teachers and parents advocating against it. CVUSD is currently in a lawsuit with local families due to adopting this explicit curriculum and other dangerously deceptive practices. They voted to adopt Teen Talk against the votes of a parent/teacher focus groups recommendations for a less extreme curriculum. Teen Talk includes a "pregnant man", false science on male/female chromosomal make up and sexually explicit language for children as young as 12 years old. Mrs. Gill proposed and lead the charge (with Karen Sylvester also voting yes) to implement Co-Ed human growth and development videos 4-6th grade. Yes, thanks to Lauren Gill, unless you happen to catch that email notification to opt-out, your 4-6 th grade daughter will be forced to watch the video about their male classmates "wet dreams". Copy past his link (https://www.conejousd.org/Page/1654) in your browser. They do not disclose the co-ed policy on line, again keeping the truth from parents. Go ahead and ask the district, yes it's true "CO-ED", they passed this unanimously.
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Lauren Gill: Indivisible Conejo Education TEAM LEADER
Indivisible Conejo is a subset of a national liberal, progressive, extremist movement that has infiltrated every facet of our society. Indivisible is a far-left political activist group that promotes Lauren Gill and Karen Sylvester as their picks, knowing they will inject these extreme and proven dangerous agendas in our schools. Gill has been very active with this group speaking at seminars and promoting radical ideologies. School boards should be non-partisan. All board members are outspoken far left Democrats siding with the extremist ideologies destroying our schools, community and nation. One of the local leaders of INDIVISIBLE: CONEJO is John Cummings. He also is a primary player in the foundation of CONEJO TOGETHER another local far-left, progressive activit group with the goal of full school board domination of their union backed candidates. See link below, John Cummings, is an admin.
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Active with Multiple Radical Extremist Groups that Promote Violence and Dangerous Rhetoric Against Families in the Community
Here are some questions to ask: Why would Lauren Gill follow so many extremist groups? Why can we not find any history on Lauren Gill? Why do the school board members delete all social media history? Click on "Learn more" to see her X (twitter) activity.
Learn MoreMEET KAREN SYLVESTER: CVUSD BOARD TRUSTEE
FAILING ACADEMICS and BUDGETS UNDER SYLVESTER'S LEADERSHIP
Karen Sylvester is complicit in supporting this board's decisions. Though she may come across as quietly polite, she consistently votes in line with the other progressive extremists pushing these failing policies. Outside of the same 10-15 usual supporters (who will be listed later), nearly every parent in this district has encountered challenges with at least one of the following issues: academic performance, adequate support for special needs, proper assessments and services for IEPs, ineffective bullying policies, dress code enforcement, or the mixing of genders in bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports, among others. *Note: Image from Niche — even current CVUSD board supporters recognize Niche as a valid source.*
Learn MorePromotes the Disinformation Campaign Against Parents: Brushing Issues Under the Rug
Conejo Together: An activist group started by Mary Anne Van Zuyle, Jon Cummings and Betsy Connolly with the goal to take over the Conejo Valley School Board in 2020 with all Progressive Democratic Candidates. They are also linked with Indivisible Conejo as you can see in this letter written (click learn more) in 2022. Karen and Gill are both very active with Conejo Together in falsly promoting to the community that our schools are just fine and performing amazing by discrediting parents concerns.
Learn MoreSYLVESTER Supported All Parent Secrecy Policies
Karen Sylvester stood by and supported all of the Board comments and backed every board member that dismissed parents wanting to have knowledge when controversial LGTBQ material would be presented in elementary classrooms to their children. The district said NO, we WILL NOT tell parents if we will read a transgender book in class. We support the teacher's decision and we will not inform you. Karen will hide this from you and tell you there is nothing to see here. Supported by the extremist progressive liberal "Indivisible" movement.
Trustees Not To Be Trusted
Cindy Goldberg
Trustee
Votes for progressive agendas in CVUSD. Not up for re-election until 2026. *stay tuned
Bill Gorback
Trustee
Votes for progressive agendas in CVUSD. Not up for re-election until 2026. *stay tuned
Lisa Powell
Trustee
Votes for progressive agendas in CVUSD. Not up for election until 2026. *stay tuned
Below are the egregious ways the current leaders have destroyed our district:
*Evidence of every claim below will eventually be on this website.
- Promoted the LGBTQ agenda in grades TK-12, with no parent permission
- Approved controversial pornographic books in schools
- Allowed racial slurs and excessive bullying without consequences
- Hid gender transitions from parents with official school documents
- Supported co-ed open bathrooms and locker rooms (gender fluid environment)
- Hid from parents that they are allowing girls to sleep in boys cabins at 6th grd outdoor school
- Planned excessive educational time for DEI/SEL
- Mandated co-ed only viewing (or opt out completely) for 4-6th grade human growth and development videos
- Adopted Planned Parenthood funded controveral Teen Talk as comprehensive sex-ed against teachers and parents vote.
- Implemented confidential mental health clinics on campus that will not inform parents when used by their child.
- Set board policy to excuse your child for medical care at their discretion.
These are just a few radical agendas creating a mental health crisis for our children in CVUSD.
June 14, 2022 CVUSD Board meeting
See Sup. McLaughlin and the Board Defend the Position to NOT INFORM PARENTS on the reading of a gender confusing book to a 3rd grade class. They claim, we "DO NOT HAVE TO TELL YOU AND WE WILL NOT" The truth is that they CAN NOTIFY YOU, they CHOOSE NOT TO. The parents position is solely to allow them the opportunity to parent their own child, not the class. No they are not asking to OUT the student, they did not even ask them to NOT read the book.
CVUSD In the NEWS (stay tuned)
LGTBQ Agenda
https://www.conejousd.org/Page/1669
https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/conejo/Board.nsf/Public#
Sample of upcoming agenda: Petition to change current 4th-6th grade human growth and development curriculum to include LGTBQ "education". Current policy, lead by Lauren Gill Board President, is to have co-ed instruction. BOTH boys and girls watch both videos together. Yes 4th grade girls (9 yo) get to watch a video about boys having "wet dreams." That was a fun dinner topic to explain, thanks to our school board policy! The district has taken public access away from the community as to what is in these new videos. Why? Brown Act Violation? Are they really being transparent? The community has a right to view the public board approved curriculum.
Meeting Date May 22, 2024.pdf
Please see docs from a parent with district admins attempting to get information from the district on the agendas in the meetings. Ultimately, Kenny Loo Ass.Sup, implied that they do not have to follow the Brown Act for disclosure because they are an Ad-Hoc committee. This is true, Ad-hoc committee's do not have to follow the Brown Act for full public disclosure. We believe this is intentional to hide the full agenda from parents, otherwise why wouldn't they make this committee permanent? You decide deceitful or not?
For your children's sake and your fundamental rights PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THE LIE that ALL parents are the enemy and secrets must be kept by the schools to protect children. How did we let the school board have the control to discern what we get to know about OUR OWN children. MOST parents are loving and choose to support their children unconditionally. Our entire judicial system is based on the greater good while trying to protect the individual. We do not ignore the fact that there is abuse happening to some children. There are many policies and resources in place to protect children from abuse of all kinds.
We believe that this form will ultimately be found illegal and cost the district hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. It assumes families and parents are abusive and not supportive, that violates the 14th amendment, period.
https://genderlcgb.substack.com/p/lawyers-train-school-districts-how
Sample of VENTURA county board of Ed to implement KINDERGARDEN - 5th grade Gender Diversity Lessons without parent notification. All parents want is the opportunity to view the material and have a conversation with their child. The board says NO and their community staged influencers call you "transphobes and bigots"
https://libertyjusticecenter.org/pressrelease/california-school-board-and-district-join-lawsuit-to-stand-up-against-gov-gavin-newsoms-attack-on-parental-rights-through-ab-1955/
One thing to consider, even if the laws ALLOWED schools to hide this information from parents, does that mean they should? Parents at Maple Elementary just wanted to be informed so they could talk to their 8-9 yo children first. That is all folks. They were not asking to stop the reading, just to be allowed the opportunity to be a parent to their OWN child, not the class. They did not ask for disclosure of the the transitioning child.( A section will be added on this incident soon).
Yes, it is happening in CVUSD
Our mission IS
TO PROTECT ALL CHILDREN FROM HARM
To expose and provide evidence on what HAS happened in CVUSD.
To expose and provide evidence on what IS happening in CVUSD.
To show the evidence of misleading and hidden agendas by leadership.
To cause community awareness that leads to change in current leadership
To cause change in policies that have or may cause harm to any child.
To support pubic schools with age-appropriate curriculum.
To support teachers, admin and staff commited to including parents on ALL policies regarding thier children.
To support a public school system committed to learning, NOT indoctrinating.
To open discussion points for parents to make decisions based on facts.
To provide truth to struggling youth and create a health environment for them to be children
To support children and allow them to grow into adulthood and before making adult decisions
To expose the incumbant leaderships deceits and failures!!!
The mission is NOT
To "dismantle" public schools
To NOT "ban books"
To NOT "attack" teachers, admin and staff
To "attack" the LGTBQ community
and
We condemn "hate" and "discrimination" against any pupil for any reason
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Links
US news link to basic CVUSD info
https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/california/districts/conejo-valley-unified-100691