Letter to the Editor: Lyon County's New Curriculum
I am writing to let people know what is happening in the Lyon County School District. I attended the Lyon County Board meeting on May 23 in Fernley. Unfortunately, there were very few parents there, mostly grandparents or concerned citizens. This has been an issue since I have been going to these meetings starting in August of 2021. Where are the parents? Are they not willing to go and find out what THEIR kids are learning?? Very sad indeed.
Well, because of the lack of interest and support, the Lyon County School Board has just approved purchasing a socialist/marxist curriculum for English Language Arts K-12, 8th grade social studies, 7 and 9-12 grade social studies curriculum. Mr. Gianotti & Ms. Moyle, both are Executive Directors of Educational Services for Lyon County (top heavy anyone!).
They told the board that this curriculum was “recommended” by the “State” to meet the new standards sent down from “above”. Board members Tom Hendrix and Sherry Parsons were the only two members who challenged these choices. Tom Hendrix suggested delaying this adoption, but the rest of the board overruled him and voted for it. Supposedly, there was overwhelming support for this from the teachers.
I commented to the board that this is probably not surprising because probably 90% of the teachers are left-leaning democrat/socialists and are fine with this stuff. Also, universities that are now training these teachers are very far left and have indoctrinated the new “batch”of teachers coming out of these universities, so not surprising that they are all for this!
And this is not all…. They also purchased materials for the Social Emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, so now your kids are going to learn how to be socially and emotionally taught! Isn’t this the parent’s responsibility? SEL is closely connected to the CRT indoctrination. Now your kids will be thoroughly indoctrinated into the Socialist and Marxist ideology in Lyon County. Congratulations! Yes, this is now going to be in the Lyon County schools.
Just so you know, those board members who voted for all this are: Bridget Peterson (Dayton), Holly Villines (Mason/Smith Valley), Darin Farr (Fernley), Phil Cowee (Dayton), and Neal E. McIntyre (Fernley). Tom Hendrix (Silver Springs) and Sherry Parsons (Fernley) voted against adoptation of this curriculum. If you are so inclined, please call or email these board members to remind them who they work for, US! My advise: Home school your kids NOW! Or find a Christian private school. There are options out there!Public education has become just an indoctrination institution.
By the way, this is on top of this board giving the superintendent a 35% salary increase in December of 2021 to bring his salary up to almost $300.000!
Cynthia Orlob