We have seen update after update from the Arizona State Board of Education as teachers are disciplined for grooming behavior with students. A Legal Process has been writing about the situation in Arizona on Substack. Often, offending teachers are let go from their districts with no fanfare but then are hired at a different district so they can continue grooming a new audience while nobody knows why they left their previous job. Hopefully, the teacher is eventually caught, the case is documented, and action is taken. How much grooming is going on right now that parents don’t know about yet?

In Mesa Public Schools, Mrs. Tami Staas is quite honest about her intentions. We have written about her previously, and we have additional recordings of her. It is a wonder Mrs. Staas’s principal has no concerns about what is going on in her classroom. For those in Mesa, the school Mrs. Staas is currently “teaching” at is Summit Academy.

We have multiple clips of an interview Tami Staas and Carrie Wolfe did to encourage transitioning children, using the classroom as their own petri dish. Here is Ms. Wolfe’s bio. The Arizona Education Association (AEA) acts as the pseudo-teachers union in Arizona.

Here is the dynamic duo. In case you couldn’t figure it out, they had to share they are female.

This first video plants the seeds of harassment and mental health so the school community takes the blame for any problems the confused child is experiencing. This is an example of Restorative Justice. The mental health component artificially drives the conversation towards school-based health centers, which are spreading like wildfire due to the dangling carrot of government money and the takeover of the family.

In the video below, Mrs. Staas shares how she introduces pronouns to students. Do parents in Mesa Public Schools know she does this? Does the Summit community know Mrs. Staas is blaming everyone else for not liking the Pride flag she hangs in her classroom?

Be careful who you vote for this fall. A teacher from southern Arizona explains that she is Lesbian and running for school board. Teachers shouldn’t be talking to students about their sexual preferences. It has nothing to do with good teaching practices and learning. Luisa and Tami Staas also take jabs at conservative values during their conversation. The AEA is doing all it can to affect school board races so districts will rubber stamp grooming your minor children and hide it from parents. More on that later.

The following video speaks for itself. But listen at 2:05 when Mrs. Staas takes the place of students’ parents, overriding the upbringing of children who are not hers.

Notice the second bullet point below. At 55 seconds, Mrs. Staas explains how to hide gender affirmation counseling from parents. Synergy is a platform used in many Arizona school districts. Guess what? Your tax dollars are paying for Synergy so “educators” like Mrs. Staas can use it to hide information from you about your child. She is even pushing for grade school Gay Clubs at the 3:20 mark.

As if the AEA podcast hasn’t done enough damage, the next video explains that the goal is to take over school boards to circumvent laws which protect kids that were passed by the Arizona Legislature.

As a follow-up, the Arizona Education Association just this week proved its goals have nothing to do with academics or student achievement. The organization’s goals are to hijack the curriculum and steal the innocence of Arizona’s children who are in public school classrooms. On Friday, August 2, 2024, Coppersmith Brockelman’s own Adam, attorney Austin Yost, argued in support of the Arizona Abortion Access (through nine months) petitions in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Within days, he was hired by a sitting Higley Governing Board member to defend her candidate petition signature challenge in a court case. Did the candidate hire Mr. Yost or did the Arizona Education Association? Why did Mr. Yost’s case jump from a high-profile, nationally-watched case on Friday to a case in a small school district in a conservative suburb of Phoenix? I’d guess because of AEA’s goals in the above videos. It seems we are upside-down in the world right now. Why would schools push the legalization of abortion? Children should be learning reading, math, writing, how to think,–not distracted with political agendas and identity politics.

In addition, Coppersmith Brockelman’s central Phoenix law firm’s address was used by Fieldworks, the company hired to obtain most of the abortion through nine months of petition signatures. Fieldworks does not have an office in that building, yet some of the circulators wrote the Coppersmith Brockelman address as their temporary address. Were the circulators living in the law offices at night and gathering abortion signatures during the day? What a tangled web they weave.

As long as we are on the subject of Higley Unified, let’s clarify a statement by a different governing board candidate. Who is really disrupting public education? It is most likely not “right-wing” candidates who support academics. Governing board candidates supported by the AEA are disrupting education to focus on identity politics and more with minors, but the AEA doesn’t want anyone to know that.

Later in the podcast, Carrie Wolfe took over to represent the AEA.

Ms. Wolfe added the following screenshot about surveys during the discussion. Note what AEA highlights what the law doesn’t say.

Here is a screenshot of the actual verbiage surrounding school surveys from the Arizona State Statute.

Here are more tricks from the AEA podcast. Parents, you have rights to raise your children as you choose. Don’t let the Arizona Education Association, Save Our Schools Arizona, or any representative of a school district tell you otherwise.

Here is the statute.

Go back to the video clip above where Mrs. Staas advises teachers to use the ghost mode on Synergy; at 3:00 she pushes Rainbow Libraries. These are personal libraries of books in a teacher’s classroom or school counselor’s office so they can bypass Arizona laws and governing board procedures.

In summary, enroll your children at a government union school at their own risk and do lots of research before voting this fall.

*AFL brought a lawsuit against Mesa Public Schools in 2023. It is currently under appeal.

Freedom Forever is an all-volunteer organization that focuses its energy and time on preserving the innocence and safety of children. Courage is a Habit is a great resource for how to combat grooming in schools.

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**Editor’s Note: This column is a guest post originally written by Peggy McClain with edits by Freedom Forever’s managing editor.

McClain is an advocate for children in Arizona. It was originally posted on her website Not In Our Schools. She became an activist for kids when Tempe Union High School District invited Planned Parenthood for sex ed in 2013. After a year of pushing back and watching the one-sided media and misleading statements by district board members and the superintendent, she started her own website in 2015. She is doing important work and we wanted to highlight it.