Our Background
We are a local group of parents, grandparents and taxpayers concerned with the increasingly widespread incursion of ideology into public school curriculum that inevitably diminishes, or in many cases, comes into direct conflict with the academic focus of public education. This disturbing trend of employing public schools for the purpose of political indoctrination in part of a broader national movement. It takes various forms and impacts a wide range of school subjects and programs. Our purpose is to ensure that public school curriculum is harmonious with American ideals spelled out in our nation's founding documents: The Declaration a of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. We seek to preserve the innocence of our children and insist that Public Schools respect the role of parents as the primary agents responsible for the moral formation of our children. We will continue to act as Coronado's faithful public school watchdog group. Our efforts and actions have a track record of success in oversight. Some of those actions include:
- Petitioned and convinced our school board to remove the language “racist, classist, and colorist” from their public statement vilifying our CHS boys' basketball team.
- Working with CUSD administrators to bring back the Pledge of Allegiance to our schools.
- Our investigative efforts to detail to CUSD Trustees the political and ideological content in the No Place for Hate program resulted in the relegation of this ill-conceived political activism program, a program later publicly repudiated by its originators, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) from an administrator run K-12 indoctrination and activism program to an extracurricular club.
Mission Statement
We the Parents Coronado is a local, volunteer-based, grassroots group dedicated to meticulous public-school oversight, championing parental rights, demanding academic excellence and administrator accountability, while providing active community engagement in Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) schools. We are parents, grandparents, attorneys, business owners, real estate agents, school employees, teachers, and computer programmers. We are united in our common vision to ensure CUSD delivers the highest-quality education possible to Coronado's young people, while always respecting the role of parents and faith traditions as the primary sources of ethical guidance and moral formation each child. We will press Trustees and Administrators for complete and accurate information regarding curriculum. We maintain that transparency with parents and accountability to the community for all administrator and trustee actions is an inherent requirement for all those in positions of administrative authority and those elected to serve the public trust.
Our Vision
We will work without ceasing to ensure that all CUSD schools focus on academic excellence and student mastery of the fundamental skills of literacy, language, science, mathematics and a balanced, even-tempered account of both world and American History. There is no reason why Coronado Unified District should not be the top performing school in San Diego County or the State of California. That should be our goal. We will demand all curriculum, programs, training, and policies be free of ideological bias and never be structured for purposes of political, social or sexual indoctrination. We clearly understand that the mission of public education is to serve a diverse and pluralistic constituency. We will never advocate for any curriculum indented to align with or impose any exclusive viewpoint on contentious ethical or moral issues upon students; nor will we tolerate any such efforts at indoctrination purposefully intended to undermine the deeply held ethical or moral convictions of any of the families in the Coronado community the public schools were created to serve.