Chino Valley Unified School District Discussing Book Banning Tonight
CHINO – Fresh off a loss in court today defending a forced outing student policy that Judge Michael Sachs described as “discriminatory on its face,” Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) will be discussing a book banning proposal at their board meeting tonight. California Governor Gavin Newsome signed AB 1078, a ban on book banning, on September 25. CVUSD’s regular meeting starts at 6 PM, and the agenda as well as a link to the district’s YouTube page can be found here.
CVUSD President Sonja Shaw indicated she was ready for another legal battle with the State of California on the One America News Network on 9/30, saying “if [Governor Newsome] comes after us for that, let it be… I’ve been working with amazing people. I don’t know if you know Karen England. She is really helping bring light to the porn in the libraries, and alongside her and our school district, we came up to a revision to our current policy that gets rid of explicit material and we’re just going to make it that much more stronger [sic]. We’re going to allow the community to be involved. So when we don’t see something as school board members that was pushed into a library or the classroom, we’re going to allow the community to come and bring that to our attention with a hearing and determine if that book is porn or sexually explicit, and we’ll be able to vote that out.” [Starts at 3:28]
Tonight’s meeting was advertised in megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs’ Calvary Chapel Chino Hills congregation on Sunday. According to an email sent from Hibbs’ Real Impact political organization, individuals, especially those outside of Chino Valley, were encouraged to attend the meeting and speak. Respondents were directed to contact Real Impacts’ staff person at a Calvary Chapel Chino Hills email address.
CVUSD uses a system that reduces each speaker’s time based on the number of people wanting to speak. For example, at the 7/20 board meeting where the forced outing policy was passed, the speaking times were reduced from 3 minutes to 1 minute per person. The real impact of Calvary Chapel flooding the room with non-resident speakers is that it effectively silences residents.