Thank you to everyone in our community who voted for me in the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District special election. I am sincerely grateful to all of the individuals who supported my campaign through volunteering, donating, providing encouragement, or contributing in any other way over the last several months. While the election results did not provide the outcome I had hoped, I have wished Mr. Enney well and offered any guidance I can provide during his term.
I am exceptionally proud of my team for helping me to run such a positive and thoughtful campaign. I learned a tremendous amount from meeting with voters and engaging with our community as a school board candidate. I intend to remain involved in the Paso Robles school district as a volunteer because working with students and families brings me joy and is my life’s work.
I hope you have been inspired in a positive way and that you too will continue to be involved in our community. For the next 18 months, this school board will be making decisions about the future of our schools, and it is extremely important to remain engaged. I urge you to continue paying attention because our students need strong voices in the community, and their education will dictate the future of our community. I encourage you to talk to your friends about the direction of schools and get them involved too.
In the meantime, I will remain an advocate for students, families, and teachers. Thank you again for showing me so much support during this campaign. Please stay tuned.
Angela Hollander
Paso Robles
This article appears in Apr 27 – May 7, 2023.
Sorry to hear of your defeat. I thought the Paso District had finally moved on from the dysfunction that has plagued it for years. I was wrong. Mr. Enney is a culture warrior and will be a thorn in the side of that board until they can get him out. I’m hopeful that the general election next year will see his demise.
The culture wars were started by the progressive who rewrote the curriculum to undermine Capitalism, Western Civilization and the Constitution. The book Let’s Talk About It is a completely immoral and libertine guide to sex education. Angela Hollander’s campaign manager refused to answer specifics on how she would vote. Paso voters spoke and supported a common sense approach to education.
“The culture wars were started by the progressive who rewrote the curriculum to undermine Capitalism, Western Civilization and the Constitution”
Sounds reminiscent of southerners in the 1950’s and 60’s when textbooks and American History classes began to accurately portray the history of chattel slavery and the plight of blacks under Jim Crow. They consistently argued that allowing blacks into mainstream society was the end of “Western Civilization.” Look it up.
While Let’s Talk About It may be too graphic to be considered for a junior high or high school curriculum, numerous studies have shown that a comprehensive sex education curriculum has reduced teen pregnancy. A University of Washington study, “found that adolescents who receive comprehensive sex education are significantly less likely to become pregnant than adolescents who receive abstinence-only-until-marriage or no formal sex education.” This means that schools need to talk about uncomfortable issues to the benefit of their students.
Sex education is particularly crucial for school districts with large percentages of migrants and Hispanics—see Paso Robles. First generation Hispanic parents are often likely not to mention sex to their teenagers because of a variety of reasons, religion first among them. In 1991, California’s teen birth rate was 72.6 per 1,000 teen girls. Today it is 45.1. Obviously this number is still to high, especially since most couples in this day and age are forgoing establishing families for a variety of reasons. But its decline can be attributed to more aggressive sex education curriculums in our public schools.
As for capitalism, I think corporate America is perfectly willing to sell to men, women, gay, lesbian, transgender, non-binary, etc.