Parent Alert: CA School District Endorses Limiting Parent Access to Campus!

oh we're live now okay hi everybody we're live we're live on Facebook we're live on YouTube I'm Jill simonian from prageru kids we have Cam operating everything I don't know if we can see you or hear you no the answer is no you we can't hear you we can't hear you at all oh my goodness so I'm solo how's everybody doing today is oh my Tuesday May 16th I hope everyone had a lovely wonderful beautiful fulfilling Mother's Day I want to get into something that I found out about recently Happening Here in yes another school district in Southern California the El Segundo Unified School District most of you know that we are obvi you know we're based here in California prageru kids is based here in California so a lot of the alerts that I get about what's happening on the ground floor are in fact from Southern California schools and I had a parent recently send me something that is happening in El Segundo Unified School District regarding the school board and School District allegedly trying to keep parents off of elementary school campuses in the name of safety and we'll get to that in a moment but first because it was Mother's Day I want first of all tell me in the comments I will be trying to follow along on Facebook here uh because I always like to respond to your comments on Facebook but tell me in the comments where you're from if you're a mom if you had a lovely Mother's Day while we are getting going here with our um you know with our audience and and and and the live stream I want to share with you something that I actually got a ton of heat over online last week it was an Instagram post shared by prageru and myself about Mother's Day and I'm just going to share this with you right now because if any of you saw this I want you to weigh in but just before we get to the headline about El Segundo shutting parents out allegedly I want to review what happened last week regarding Mother's Day being quote unquote canceled by so many corporations take a listen consumers and opt out for Mother's Day emails because they're triggering Levi's jean says we know motherhood and all the associated feelings emotions and memories can be tricky MAC makeup understands that Mother's Day can be a difficult time for some of us and from doordash click the button below if you prefer to be removed from receiving certain emails group think much here's a life skill learn how to cope yes Mother's Day can be difficult for those of us who no longer have a mom but never in a million years would I want Mother's Day to be vilified for those who do we cannot raise another self-centered generation who cannot cope with anything unless it specifically caters to them and we can't keep erasing the celebration of moms under a false veil of sensitivity I'm actually offended that companies are asking people to opt out of Mother's Day I mean do I get to opt out of emails about diversity equity and inclusion if you've had it like me do something double down in teaching our kids the importance of moms our prageru kids episode and book Otto's Tales today is Mother's Day is our answer to rejecting nonsense and teaching our kids values subscribe for free at prageru kids.com okay so there was like the little commercial for preggeryoukids.com the Mother's Day book all of you who follow us already already know that we celebrate the importance of moms and dads and those those very specific roles that parents have in our life lives and I got a lot of heat for that last week I want to hear from you if you you you disagree with me I realized that video in social media style was very haughty and snarky and all the things but it what I said in there was very true in that we are living in an age now where children are being raised and educated to be overly sensitized if something does not specifically pertain to their specific life life Journey exclusively now I know that Mother's Day is very hard I am part of the population that Mother's Day is very very hard for I lost my mom five years ago to a battle with cancer rest in peace five years ago Mother's Day is a very difficult day I also am a mom so it's also on the other side of the sword a very beautiful day where I celebrate my family and my children and we have a lovely family day my point in that video last week which so many of you jumped on me for was that life happens to all of us and we cannot continue to raise children with this self-centered Life View where heaven forbid if we get an email about something that might tap into a you know a tender part of our life that we're trying to work through like heaven forbid we can't just delete it or we can't just ignore it on our own volition we have to make a scene and opt out and notify everyone don't talk to me about this topic and and and and and you know do all of these over-the-top things that really should quite frankly be unnecessary everyone has something that doesn't pertain to them everyone has a challenge everyone has sad spots in their lives but it's part of our job as parents to teach our children to yes work through it have sensitivity towards others but we cannot raise our kids to be constantly offended or triggered by every little thing that comes our way because it's setting our society up for bigger problems and I think we're seeing the result of that my love to anyone who had a difficult Mother's Day my love to anyone who had a beautiful Mother's Day um that was that was the whole point of that that social media thing last week I'm seeing a lot of frowns coming up in the comments listen I love and respect everyone's point of view and we do respect freedom of speech here especially at Prague you kids and that's what we want to teach our children to always be respectful and speak your mind but I just wanted to touch on that now let's get into the topic okay all right let's see let's see let's see let's oh I'm looking at the comments I want to scroll opt out of paying taxes Texas mom Texas mom and grandparent I'm from New Mexico okay North Carolina great all right we got all sorts of different people across the country welcome let's get to the headline now El Segundo unified allegedly pushing uh a uh you know endorsing a push to keep parents off of elementary school campus in the name of safety I want to get into this like I said at the very top if you're just tuning in one of our uh prageru kids uh parents uh you know a fan so to speak a viewer sent this information to me as they are a part of the El Segundo Unified School District and they said that recently the school district has been exploring options and initiatives to keep their campuses more safe understandably we don't need I'm not going to get into a debate about you know what's happening with you know school shootings school shootings are tragic they are ongoing we've discussed possible root causes before we've discussed how to keep our children safe before I will absolutely welcome any comments in the comments section here in on Facebook and YouTube to continue that conversation about safety in schools but in El Segundo unified specifically they have allegedly in recent months hired a safety consultant that they uh worked with before in previous years and there have been a lot of school board meetings discussing this new safety plan right now on the screen I have pulled up the El Segundo Unified School Safety plan there we go El Segundo Unified School District next steps in school safety I'm just going to scroll through this because as a parent who used to have my children in public school I know too well what all of these slide shows involve when you go to a school board meeting and it's up to us parents to stay informed and involved and really pay attention to our school board meetings as painful as they sometimes might be for the sake of our children here's the slideshow Ali rabihi is the coordinator of District safety this gentleman is also the newly appointed assistant principal for Center Street School in El Segundo Unified School District here in Southern California the board unanimously approved him he spoke at the school board meeting which I'm going to show you shortly seems like a very decent gentleman well spoken I don't know anything about him other than that so these are the actions taken to keep the El Segundo Unified School District safe they have a contract with someone by the name of Dave klug consultant to reassess schools they had a board meeting about this I'm just going to scroll down I'm having a hard time actually seeing this whole let's see oops seeing this whole presentation there we go we got it okay so they had all these meetings with the parents how to keep schools safe we have Implement locked classroom door policies revised and standardized safety plans install video surveillance monitors this is all pretty standard I don't disagree with any of it trained personnel and public address system develop plan for lockout technology install people viewers and select doors standardize Access Control these are all steps that this consultant determined to recommend to El Segundo Unified School District to keep their campus safe they have developed a plan here at the bottom the cougar crew as they call it solicit parent volunteers I'm guessing that the cougar is their mascot secure safety vests and lanyards train volunteers parents here it says parents may walk their students to the classroom on the first and second days of school which seems pretty standard but it's interesting to me the way they specify the first and second days of school so here I'm going to take you now to the board meeting that happened on May 9th and uh this specific meeting is again public information I just want to walk you through this we had a bunch of parents stand up and talk about how in the district the information has been circulating that these schools in El Segundo unified do not want parents on campus with their children dropping them off and picking them up okay uh the assistant principal to this school discussed earlier in this meeting what he called a layered approach and that means limited number of people on campus at the beginning of a school day because that was recommended by safety Consultants to to to limit the you know reasonably limit the access of who can come in and out of campus to keep that campus safe however the information that I've received from parents in the school district is saying that the Board of Education here which is shown on the screen wants to limit access of parents dropping off their children on campus through the meeting we had a dad speak we had another dad speak we had a mom speak who cited that 60 parents 60 percent of parents in the school district voted against the plan in the district-wide survey to limit parental access on campus I want to play you a sound bite now of Dr Melissa Moore who is the superintendent of El Segundo Unified School District she's speaking about this proposed safety plan to limit parental access to campus specifically at this Elementary School Center Street Elementary School let's hear what she had to say it's about a minute generated the most amount of feedback was that of this Access Control at Center Street School so the safety of the students the faculty and the staff is of us most importance to I know the board and certainly myself as if an individual whether it's a student or a teacher or the front office staff don't feel safe whether it's at school or their workplace um that individual cannot fully Thrive whether it's they're not thriving as learning they don't feel sense of belonging they don't feel they can perform their duties at the level that they need to because they're they're worried um we we need to we need to address that and we need to take that into consideration so I truly wish our students of today were able to live in the innocence of The Wonder Years existence that I had when I grew up okay so again I don't disagree with that she wants students to live in The Wonder Years of when she grew up and again this is the superintendent talking about how the teachers and the staff are nervous for people to be on campus I get that however I want to back it up a little bit to what Dr uh Moore was saying it is more right yes it is more I've said it 12 times and I still can't remember I want to back up a little bit to see what Dr Moore was saying when you grew up when you grew up I will bet that there were consequences for bad behavior at school when you grew up I bet that there was not a push to keep parents off of Campus when you grew up I bet that there wasn't a diversity equity and inclusion program that divided students and made them question themselves I bet that there was not an SEL social emotional learning program that that uh that that that that forced children to break apart what they were uh what they were feeling every single second of the day in trading it for you know trading that time to teach social emotional feelings in place of academic knowledge when you were growing up I bet that kids maybe even prayed before football games or before school plays or band performances without being lambasted we are talking about when you grew up we were in a different time that actually embraced American values based in judeo-christian values schools used to Value character morals good behavior consequences we are now seeing an uptick in the day danger of you know certain campuses because most of our schools especially in here California have completely abandoned morals they've completely abandoned teaching children knowledge they are replacing teaching knowledge and academics with Dei and s-e-l and shoving these divisive confusing Concepts about identity and seeing race first onto young children that creates an and a circumstance of Chaos and we wonder why our school safety has declined especially when you are pushing parents away think of the time when you grew up Dr Moore that schools and parents were genuine Partners where parents and teachers would meet and discuss individually what is going on with students think of the times when teachers were able to give students consequences for bad behavior or disrespect or acting out dangerously or in a harassing way towards another student those were the times when we abided by a moral code that the root cause of all of these dangerous circumstances on campus is that we have completely abandoned our moral code AS parents and Educators who are supposed to work together yeah you can hire the consultants and put the fencing around the school yeah you can hire the Consultants to say we need to lock every classroom door we need to blockade all the you know the we need to blockade the enter the entrances and exits yeah we can hire these consultants for thousands and thousands of dollars and we can also hire the Consultants to come in and tell everyone that they're a racist and and and misdirect where the focus should be for educating children but if you continue to completely ignore the fact that our moral code in our education system has been abandoned we're going to continue to have tragic horrible situations that are dangerous on campus like school shootings um I want to go to the comments on this I'm scrolling it takes me a moment people miss the days where the words go see the principle meant something we all sat up and showed a lot more respect yes we did Liz yes we did myself included Truth uh God is watching you all do the right thing for the future please let me see I'm scrolling I'm scrolling I'm scrolling now I can hear you thank you oh good I guess people couldn't hear me before so who knows what I said before was all for not uh uh oh can't hear me can't hear me oh sorry guys hope you missed the best part um it was quiet all right all right let me see I'm scrolling these comments uh God help us all save the babies and children of this country okay so my point is in all of this El Segundo unified God bless them trying to find a solution parents who sent me this information God bless them trying to hold the line and demand and really uh you know make the make the plea to allow parents on campus to continue to to ensure safety and communication between parents and children and teachers um if your school is saying that parents cannot be entering our campus in the name of safety my advice to you parents is to continue to hold the line continue to go to the school board meetings continue to walk on campus you are the parents we are the parents and the more we are pushed away the more problems our schools are going to experience that is a fact that's not an opinion that's a fact that's a fact so that said the parents in El Segundo unified have started a petition children's safety benefits from parents on campus this is on change.org again one of the parents sent this to me this is a public petition God bless these parents trying to speak truth and reason to the school board and the school district to stay involved on campus in their children lives because when parents are involved in their children's education the campus becomes safer period uh this this is at change.org and it's for El Segundo unified if you're in El Segundo unified I'm also curious to hear your thoughts if you have personal experience about what's happening there these parent alerts that we do uh pretty much every week are just to keep you guys informed about what's happening what could happen in your school district even if it's not happening now be aware be alert we you know this trend of trying to just push parents and keep them at Bay is taking all sorts of forms you know between oh we want to keep our campus safe from people who might come in with ill intentions yes absolutely true but you know we saw it with covid oh parents can't come on campus because we need to keep everyone safe be wary of that word safe again be wary of that word safe because that word's safe all too often is very overreaching and abused and quite frankly adds to the decline of our struggling education system all right right now I'm going to take you to prageru kids.com take a look at where we're at prageru kids.com because our answer to this is nourishing our children's Minds values and of course staying alert and informed and active for parents that is little scroll with all of our shows here we go if you can see autostales Crafters Street smarts guess or Miss Leo and Layla cash course around the world how do TBH all of these shows everybody oh plus we got the magazines for the kids so we have about 250 pieces of free content for kids kindergarten through 12th and 12th grade and yes of course you can watch it on your computer or on your phone but I was reminded this morning to um to endorse again that all of you all download the app it's free it's a much better viewing experience on the app I know that we have parental controls where parents can specifically Mark for kids to only watch our kids content so that 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to find out what your district is doing oh there it is it's at the top here kids menu parent action guide here we go parent action guide this is a road map for how to stay involved and informed at your child's school if you don't know where to start with asking questions or filing a Freedom of Information Act request this goes for any parent who wants to know what is happening on campus with activities curriculum emails between Educators and outside Consultants you name it this goes along with staying involved and informed um whether or not your school board and School District happens to be endorsing parents stay off of Campus like El Segundo unified allegedly is these days all right with that I'm going to wrap up I'm going to wrap up and let me see if I can I always like to find a comment that leaves us on a high note on a positive on a motivational note if you haven't subscribed yet to prageru kids.com subscribe join us you'll love everything we have there let's see scrolling the comments Kim if you find one before me let me know I'm looking oh I'm failing I'm failing I can't find I'm looking I can't read and talk at the same time mm-hmm what's this unfortunately too many parents have decided to turn school board meetings into their personal soapbox no it's not a personal soapbox parents involved is always a good thing Colorado stop sending your crazy California people here they are ruining our state I'm laughing even though it's not funny Sarah my condolences my condolences oh here here we go positive note to end our live from Amelie Louisiana where every school is teaching the children to put God first in every step they take to God be the glory God's got our children here in Louisiana and every day is Mother's Day and all women can be nurses and teachers for each child I'm praying for all what do not see the hand of God in all of this since welcome back everywhere all right Amelie thank you for that God bless Louisiana where the parents and teachers put God first in the schools we love hearing that hold the line join us at prageru kids.com if you've got uh if you've got tips about what's happening in your school district and you want us to discuss it here if you want to alert parents so that they can keep an eye out in their local districts definitely send send us a DM on Instagram you can send me a DM on Instagram at Jill simonian and God bless all the parents and great teachers doing the right thing trying to work together to partner to put Faith reason and virtue first in our schools for our children for our future in America I'm going to say goodbye until next time bye bye guys