Conservatives are cheering after an indignant father demolished the members of Glendale County, California’s woke school board during a heated public meeting, speaking protectively on behalf of his two young boys who attend school in Glendale and calling out a leftist on the board who pushed for including transgender students on opposite-gender sports teams.
For context, in a Glendale County School Board meeting held on April 4, 2023, tensions rose to a fever pitch, with many parents protesting the proposed integration of transgender students into boys’ and girls’ sports teams. One father, who later went viral, went on an eight-minute tirade, shielding himself from interruptions coming from the smug, entitled school board member who headed up the meeting.
In his speech to the school board, which later went viral after being shared by The Blaze, the frustrated father began his statement by explaining his situation and the reason he felt so strongly about the issue at hand, saying, “I’ve got two young boys. We live in Glendale, and when they come of age, I am deeply concerned about their educational prospects in this city.”
Continuing, the disgruntled parent kept his cool as he explained his frustration with his tax dollars going towards the salaries of woke school board members. He explained, “I’m deeply concerned about how that money is being spent, particularly, and I’m going to single out a person in the school district named Dr. Kelly King.”
Unafraid to confront the woke school board member, the father told the parents gathered in the room about her egregiously high salary, saying, “Dr. Kelly King makes over $250,000 a year. Every four years, we give her a million dollars. We will be paying her pension for, you know, the duration of her life after she retires. And she’s doing things I completely disagree with.”
Moving on and becoming more specific, the father explained that Dr. King had deflected concerns from male coaches in the school district who were “horrified at the thought of having a biological girl changing clothes in front of them. The father explained, “[Dr. King] continued, ‘It’s not a girl, it’s not a girl. You only have boys in the boys’ locker room. She just said it was a biological girl.”
Attempting to make his point, the father continued to be interrupted by the school board member presiding over the meeting. Undeterred, the father went on to point out the tyranny of Dr. King’s policy towards transgender children at Glendale schools, explaining, “In these gender support plans, she ranks parents on how affirming they are. Who determines that based on what criteria? I’d love to know that policy.”
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Concluding his viral speech, the father pointed out to the school board that it was extremely hypocritical to offer board members like Dr. King such a high salary while students struggled to learn. In a mic-drop moment, he told the board, ” Only 43% of Glendale Unified high schoolers are proficient in math upon graduation, only 65% are proficient in reading, and you pay that much money to institute those policies while you’re failing, literally failing, to produce the adequate students for the 21st century.”
Watch the dad demolish the school board:
Featured image credit: screenshot from embedded video