‘Battle Between Normal And The Crazy’: State Official Fiercely Condemns School Board For Terminating Contract With Christian University

After some board members claimed that the university’s beliefs were disturbing, Arizona’s superintendent of public instruction attacked an Arizona school board.

Washington Elementary School district ended its agreement with Arizona Christian University in February, after members of the board attacked it. The contract allowed students to get field experience, and Washington Elementary School District was able to terminate the contract.

“My concern is when I go to Arizona Christian University’s website, [they are] ‘committed to Jesus Christ, accomplishing his will and advancements on earth as in Heaven,'” board member Tamillia Valenzuela said. “At some point, we need to get real with ourselves and take a look at who we’re making legal contracts with and the message that is sending to our community. Because that makes me feel like I could not be safe in this school district.”

According to Valenzuela’s bio, Valenzuela was “a bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent Queer Black Latina … who loves a good hot wing (but only with the right ranch) and things that sparkle.”

Her suggestion was also that the university’s Christian views on sexuality were a problem.

“I want to know how bringing [teachers] from an institution that is ingrained in their values so directly brings impact to three of your board members who are a part of the LGBT community,” Valenzuela continued.

Kyle Clayton, school board member joined the charge, “Proselytizing is embedded into how they teach. And I just don’t believe that that belongs in schools.”

Tom Horne was the Arizona State Superintendent for Public Instruction. He served from 2011-2015 as Arizona Attorney General. Horne fired back, telling Fox News The school board made a wrong decision.

“There’s nothing more outrageous than religious prejudice. Prejudice of all kinds has been responsible, in my opinion, for almost all of the evil in the history of humankind. And the person who raised this on the school board describes herself as a ‘neuro-divergent queer.’ And when she says that she expects you to be tolerant of her” He stated.

“I’m Jewish, and there’s an old Jewish expression: ‘He who expects respect, has to give respect,'” Horne added. “And this is an absolutely outrageous violation of people’s religious rights.”

“The best teachers’ preparation program in Arizona is a Christian college; it’s called Grand Canyon,” He noted. “I served 24 years on the school board, and we always want to get as many teachers from there as we could get because they were the best at preparing teachers for the classroom.”

“There’s some bad things that have developed in our society, primarily Critical Race Theory,” He continued. “I made that my number one issue in the political campaign. Everybody who voted for me knows I was against Critical Race Theory because my volunteers and I put up 1,500 signs all around the state that had my name on it and it said ‘Stop Critical Race Theory.'”

“So we who want the normal, as the governor of [Arkansas] said; there’s a battle between the normal and the crazy,” Horne declared. “Those of us who want the normal, we’ve got to organize; we’ve got to fight back, we’ve got to elect people to statewide office and local office and school board office and we’ve got to fight back and we’ve got to bring the country back to normal.”

He said, “Teachers should adhere to state guidelines” and not force their ideology onto students.

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