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A former high school principal at the San Ramon Valley Unified School District is now set to lead one of the local elementary schools after stepping down from her previous position last summer and working as an English teacher during the past academic year.
Megan Keefer was announced as the SRVUSD Board of Education’s unanimous selection for principal of Montair Elementary School in Danville following a closed-session meeting on Thursday.
Keefer’s appointment comes following the resignation in June of former Montair principal Elizabeth Lyons, who had been appointed to the position in 2020 ahead of the first full school year during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keefer served as principal of California High School in San Ramon from 2019 to 2022, resigning last July and returning to her roots in the classroom as an English teacher.
While the reason for her resignation as Cal High principal was unclear, the move came shortly after social media posts and news stories in May 2022 showcased images of the school’s cheerleading team with a mannequin head considered as their unofficial “mascot” — leading to allegations of racism against the team, as well as outcry from parents who accused Superintendent John Malloy of tarnishing the girls’ names and mishandling the situation.
Elizabeth Lyons, departing Montair Elementary after just three years as principal, has reportedly “not announced her next career destination.” Was she simply overwhelmed by the grossly irresponsible, sex-and-gender indoctrination being pushed at SRVUSD schools and kids by activist teachers and administrators?
Some Sycamore Valley Elementary parents, meanwhile, recently discussed a position page criticizing formation of a “PRISM Club” (4th/5th grade “LGBTQ” Club), “LGBTQ Day of Silence” programming, pressure for “LGBTQ” books for even TK kids (4 and 5-year-olds), and “gender-transition” counseling without parental consent — blaming Sycamore principal Patricia Kawahara for these problems.
Supt. Malloy responded on July 12, insisting that “This information is inaccurate because this work is in alignment with the Board approved Strategic Directions, Policy and Resolutions which guide and direct the work we are doing in all of our schools…. We also understand the importance of engaging our students in age appropriate ways and collaborating with our parents/caregivers.”
Aside from a tacit admission of ongoing age-INappropriate activity, Malloy echoes his frequent claim that parents are SRVUSD “partners.” In fact, SRVUSD parents have become mere spectators to a usurping of their authority by some teachers, with administrative cooperation.
In a January 2021 email, Instructional Coach Korby Saunders (of “Queering the Classroom” notoriety, https://www.srvexpositor.com/lgbtq-activism and https://www.srvexpositor.com/queering-the-classroom-ii ) asserted that a child’s claim of a new “gender identity” or “sexual orientation” at school may not be disclosed to parents without the CHILD’s permission, no matter how young the child.
SRVUSD has recently confirmed to me that parents are informed of “gender-support plans” only if children give permission. Until Malloy and other SRVUSD indoctrinators are pushed out, students here remain in developmental and moral danger.
Principal Megan Keefer cares about the kids in this district. She apparently cares enough to come back after Malloy threw her under the bus at Cal for a political charade to stroke his own ego. The district needs more great administrators like Keefer and less of the political kowtowers at the district office that care more about virtue signaling than educating kids.
Readers unfamiliar with Malloy’s defamation of Cal High’s Stunt Team girls last year should read the detailed story: https://www.danvillesanramon.com/news/2022/06/17/cal-high-principal-keefer-resigns-position-to-return-to-teaching . Malloy’s behavior during the subsequent 06/07/22 SRVUSD Board meeting, facing student, parent, and other community condemnation, was something itself to behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4OZ1LLp1Mk at 51:00, and again at 2:45:00.
Having amplified a falsified social media post in his “Cal High Racist Incident 5.23.22” communique, Malloy said he already knew all the details because he and other administrators had spoken to “people closest to the team.”
But they hadn’t spoken even to team members themselves. It was one of the continually bizarre moments of Malloy’s superintendency.
Instead of firing Malloy, and further illustrating its own cooperation with corruption and insanity, the SRVUSD Board extended his contract, and increased his salary.
Cal High Principal Megan Keefer, in her own 05-23-22 school letter, referred to “an extremely racist and harmful situation in our community.” Later, Mrs. Keefer reportedly apologized, however, to the slandered Stunt Team girls and their parents. She then resigned.
Here’s hoping that she now stands up bravely against SRVUSD’s overtly racist “anti-racism” and “LGBTQ”/“PRISM Club” indoctrination — and Korby Saunders-recommended, homosexual and transgender-themed read-aloud picture-storybooks for TK-5 kids (ages 4 thru 11).
Otherwise, Montair will experience the same irrationality that infects other SRVUSD elementaries, especially Christy Glaser’s and Korby Saunders’ Country Club campus.
As an example, a young PRISM Club (4th or 5th grade) member there was induced to write his/her teacher as follows, spelling per original: “Hey [Teacher], I’m Pansexaut and would appresheat if you could hang this proggress flag in your classroom to suppourt the LGBTQA+ committy. Thxxx so much!”
It’s amazing there isn’t more concern about the incredible turnover rate of administrators. The fish rots from the head. The district office needs to be held accountable for their failures.
>>The district office needs to be held accountable for their failures.
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I’ve been informed now that Sycamore Elementary principal Patricia Kawahara sent notice to parents only a few minutes before authors Shannon Hale and Leuyen Pham spoke to a school assembly.
Hale and Pham are the writers/illustrators of the “Kitty-Corn” series, about a kitty which believes she’s actually a unicorn. The book is considered by some — especially those opposing gender-bender activism — as an entry-level enticement for vulnerably impressionable young children to begin considering new “gender identities.”
There are already similar books of this sort in the “queering the classroom” (their term) collection recommended by Country Club Elementary instructional coach Korby Saunders and principal Christy Glaser ( https://www.srvexpositor.com/lgbtq-activism ).
These other books include “Neither” (about a creature that is neither a blue rabbit nor a yellow bird but instead a green in-between) and “Red, a Crayon’s Story,” about a blue crayon with a mistaken red label.
In an April 19, 2022 SRVUSD Board meeting, Supt. Malloy claimed that “Our educators MUST do this [i.e., utilize such picture-story books — and worse — in TK-5 read-alouds], saying further that “This is not just something they do. It is a REQUIREMENT…. [And after claiming that parents are SRVUSD partners,] It actually MUST be done.”
That was either a thrice-emphasized mistake or an outright lie on Malloy’s part, as he misrepresented California’s “FAIR” Act. That legislation says nothing about a requirement to push transgenderism or other indoctrination with books of fiction and fantasy.
I wrote to Malloy the day after that Board meeting to request validation for his claim. He converted that simple request into a formal California public records-act request, then never responded to it.
SRVUSD and Malloy are the names. Indoctrination and gender alterations are the “games” — with potentially very harmful consequences when parents and other taxpayers fail to step in and call “foul.”