A groundswell has been happening in California since the winter of 2020, and it has only gotten stronger. We may have failed to oust Governor Gavin Newsom in a 2021 recall election, but the grassroots momentum the recall organization created continues to grow stronger, and the continued selfishness, short-sightedness, and arrogance of Hair Gel and the elected class in the state has only added fuel to the engine.

As our Managing Editor Jen Van Laar reported, El Dorado County in Northern California has now made their campuses mask optional, after massive protests in the El Dorado Unified School District schools, as well as school districts in Elk Grove, Carmichael, and Sonora.

Several protests were held Tuesday across Northern California, with students and parents speaking up against mask mandates in schools.

At Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, students in attendance of that protest said they were tired of wearing masks in the classroom.

“I think it should be optional,” freshman Jonas Merrill said. “It’s totally your choice. But I think if you don’t want one, you don’t have to wear one.”

Some students said there are other ways to stay safe against COVID-19.

Yes, there are, and it’s time to stop punishing children so the school districts can collect those COVID bucks; because at this point, that is all this is about. When you choose to host a major sporting event with 70,000 plus people in attendance, most without masks, no one takes you seriously that you care about COVID spread.

Go. Sit. Down.

Placer County is doing the same. The Roseville Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees submitted a resolution making masks optional; this despite being out of compliance with their insurance carrier, according to the El Dorado County press release:

We are very aware of the action that Roseville Joint Union High School District took to make masking optional. We have confirmed that their liability carrier will not cover them from any claims or damages since they took action in defiance of the California Department of Public Health and they have significant legal exposure that can jeopardize their district.

But it’s not just the mask mandates that are at issue in the state, but the ability for children to receive a quality education, free from a woke agenda. In Uber-Leftist San Francisco, voters recalled three San Francisco School Board Members: Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, and Faauuga Moliga. With over 70 percent of the votes tallied as “YES” on recall, it wasn’t even close.

Bye, Felicia!

The majority of San Franciscans who voted in Tuesday’s special election were in support of recalling three San Francisco school board members, with 79% voting to oust Alison Collins, 75% saying yes to recalling Gabriela López and 72% opting to remove Faauuga Moliga, according to tallies by the San Francisco Department of Elections.

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Parents in the politically liberal city launched the recall effort in January 2021 out of frustration over the slow reopening of district schools while the board pursued the renaming of 44 school sites and the elimination of competitive admissions at the elite Lowell High School.

“The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable to put our kids last,” said Siva Raj, a father of two who helped launch the recall effort. “Talk is not going to educate our children, it’s action. It’s not about symbolic action, it’s not about changing the name on a school, it is about helping kids inside the school building read and learn math.”

A-freakin’-MEN. The CRT-styled agenda in California school curricula is all symbolism over actual substance, and San Francisco was the bastion that promoted this to the nth degree. Renaming schools and removing gifted classes to create equity is the priority. Learning loss from Zoom? Actual fundamentals? Who cares! Johnny may not be able to read and write, but he knows how to identify his implicit bias. And boy, does he know how to protest!

In a puff piece in LA Magazine, UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said as much.

“Our kids didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.” She even went so far as to suggest darkly that “learning loss” is a fake crisis marketed by shadowy purveyors of clinical and classroom assessments.

Notice the language: “OUR kids,” “OUR babies,” the whole, “government is co-parent” nonsense. This San Francisco School Board recall was about parents saying, “not today, and not my child.” It was a precursor earthquake—4,5 to 5.0 on the Richter scale. Enough to jolt you awake, so you can prepare for the big one. We know it has gotten the attention of Democrats and the Left (but I repeat myself), because the Left is already trying to tie these grassroots efforts to big money, right-wing donors, and astroturf. It’s classic Marxism: accuse your opponent of what you are doing (and have done) in order to diminish and confuse.

It’s not going to work this time. How many people discounted what was happening in Loudoun County, Virginia? A parent-led movement, and the elected leaders tone deaf and adversarial response to it, created a groundswell that changed the executive branch from the bottom up. Throughout the state of California, signatures are being collected to get the Educational Freedom Act on the 2022 ballot. Californians want educational choice on the ballot, and this act would move educational funding away from the school districts and to the child. Of course the fat Teachers Unions are against it, but like MC Hammer sings: You Can’t Touch This.

Even though the state has dropped the indoor mask requirement (except for schools), Los Angeles County refuses to do so. So, Los Angeles is taking a page from Assemblyman Kevin Kiley’s (R-Rock Star) playbook with this savage move. They plan to drop off their masks at the doorstep of the Crypt Keeper, Los Angeles Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.

Now that CA dropped the indoor mask requirement (except for kids, natch) looking for something to do with all those suddenly worthless masks? How about joining us this Friday 12pm dropping them at Barbara Ferrer's @lapublichealth downtown office. 313 N Figueroa St, LA 90012 pic.twitter.com/HOnwNHGm7i

— LA Uprising (@UprisingLa) February 16, 2022

On February 28, Secretary of the California Department of Health Dr. Mark Ghaly claims he will reassess the school masks mandate. Whatever his decision, if he fails to understand that California parents are over the political science, and way past being patient, then the next protests will be at his door.