Our Schools USA’s COO Interviewed About Far-Right Extremism in Temecula Valley Unified

Our Schools USA’s Chief Operating Officer Kristi Hirst was interviewed and discussed how national far-right extreme groups are pushing an agenda to local parents.

“Kristi Hirst, a former teacher in Chino who co-founded the education nonprofit Our Schools USA to push back against right-wing extremism in schools, said she thinks conservative school board members are being used as pawns in a national movement to bring about “the slow dismantling of public education.”

‘“I think on the local level, these people have been manipulated to fulfill this plan that I don’t even think they’re fully aware of,” Hirst said. “I don’t think the local school board members see the big picture. But the big picture definitely has to do with the breakdown of public education.”’

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From the article text:

“A dedicated group of right-wing activists has been showing up at school board meetings in Temecula, Murrieta, Chino, and elsewhere to support anti-trans policies. Komrosky, the Temecula school board president, was seen at the Murrieta Valley school board’s vote on a parental notification policy on Aug. 10. There, he was photographed with Chloe Cole, an anti-trans activist; Jessica Tapia, an ex-teacher who claims she was fired for refusing to recognize trans students identities; and activists who previously showed up to the Chino Valley school board’s parental notification policy vote, according to information provided by Our Schools USA.”

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