12/17/2023 0 Comments Illuminate pylusd![]() “In the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, we respect and value all students, employees, families, and community members equally-regardless of their race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, and/or nationality. UPDATE: more progressive Left Twitter activists have been promoting the allegation the graffiti spree at Yorba Linda High School is actually the work of anti-CRT activists attempting to discredit CRT supporters. Remember back in February when Blades and Youngblood voted down a program meant to reduce student conflict at YLHS? Cut to today at YLHS… /DGAE40HtgC- VoicesforPYLUSD April 26, 2022 Commenters on the conservative Yorba Linda Uncensored Facebook page expressed outrage at the graffiti and the belief it is perpetrated by a person or persons retaliating against the CRT ban. We will update the article with her comment when we receive it. On April 29, OC Independent reached out to PYLUSD Board President Carrie Buck for comment. People who are trying to create conflict and racial tension in our schools are shameful.” “Our main focus needs to be providing our students with a high quality education. I would hate to think this is in retaliation for the recent CRT ban implemented in our district,” said PYLUSD Trustee Leandra Blades. The CRT ban and its supporters were and continue to be commonly denounced in progressive social media circles as being “racist’ and proponents of “white supremacy.”Ī steel container on the Yorba Linda High School campus was tagged with the phrase “School=Prison” – a reference to a belief popular in woke social justice circles that the public education is functionally an adjunct of institutional systemic racism and geared toward funneling disadvantaged students into the criminal justice system. Opponents of the ban called it censorship and mistakenly claimed it would prohibit teaching about topics such as slavery and the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans. READ: PYLUSD Board of Education Votes To Prohibit CRT From District Curriculum Supporters of the ban said they did not support glossing over the darker aspects of American history curriculum, but opposed teachers employing CRT principles grounded in the belief the nation’s founding was intrinsically racist, that systemic racism is pervasive and that students are oppressed or privileged based upon their skin color and ethnicity. The boardroom for the April 5 vote was packed with parents and students from both sides of the issue. The vote was the culmination of a heated process that began last fall. The graffiti seems to be a clear reference to the PYLUSD Board of Education’s vote on April 5 to prohibit CRT principles from the district curriculum and classrooms. “Extra security measures have since been put into place to deter another incident of this nature.”Īlthough the tagging took place of Yorba Linda High School, it was clearly directed at the district as a whole. ![]() ![]() “District and school administrators involved the Orange County Sheriff’s Department immediately following the incident and a police report was filed,” said Griffiths. On April 29, PYLUSD spokesperson Alyssa Griffiths said the district does not know who perpetrayed teh tagging. Prior to publication of this article, OC Independent contacted the Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District for further information on the tagging. Graffiti scrawled on Yorba Linda High School campus early this morning. ![]() Yorba Linda High School was recently ranked as one of the best high schools in the nation by US News & World Report. Staff were able to remove the graffiti before school started. For two days in a row, Yorba Linda High School has been hit with graffiti accusing the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District of being racist, in what appears to be a reaction against the PYLUSD’s ban on Critical Race Theory (CRT) in school curriculum.Įarly in the morning on April 26, Yorba Linda High School was tagged with graffiti such as “PYLUSD Is Racist,” “Fuck You” and “PYLUSD Is A Cult.”Īccording to sources with the district, the taggers returned again early this morning to spray paint the same slogans.
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