An alarmed former elementary school principal, Brett Loring, and current Director of Student Services at a TK–8 district in Northern California, is one of several concerned Christian educators who have reached out to the California Family Council. “It’s not training; it’s programming,” Loring said. “It’s telling teachers what to think and how to respond to students, no matter what their own beliefs or the parents’ beliefs are.”

The curriculum, mandated by the California Safe and Supportive Schools Act, AB 5 and AB 130, was funded with $2.4 million in taxpayer dollars. These funds support online courses designed by LGBTQ advocacy groups in partnership with the California Department of Education and the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Organizations such as the ACLU, Equality California, the Trevor Project, OUT for Safe Schools, the California Teachers Association, and the California State PTA helped craft the training outline—called PRISM—but school board members and parents have struggled to access the full material.

CFC has spoken with several school board members who have been denied access to PRISM training in their districts. One Southern California school board member was even told by his superintendent that the Department of Education will not allow school board members to view the material.

Recently, however, CFC obtained a recording of a teacher taking the LGBTQ “cultural competency” training and final exam as promoted by AB 5 and PRISM. While the PRISM website allows districts to create their own “substantially similar” version of the course, the content must still meet the same ideological standards. (read the ED code for details) Yet since the PRISM online training is free to school districts, it is assumed most school boards will opt for the no-cost version.

Watch the LGBTQ Cultural Competency Training Video

Curriculum Themes:

•Using Preferred Pronouns:Teachers are told they must “promote safety and well-being” by using each child’s chosen pronouns.

•Heterosexism is Bigotry:The training claims that believing heterosexual relationships are “normal” is a form of discrimination called “heteronormativity.”

•Keeping Secrets from Parents:The curriculum insists that teachers cannot disclose a student’s gender identity or orientation to parents, asserting that children have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” from their families.

•Requiring Gender Affirmation:Employees are told to affirm a child’s chosen identity, including social, legal, and medical “gender affirmation,” despite global pushback against such policies and the growing number of detransitioners warning of regret.

At the end of the training, teachers must take a test reinforcing these messages. The test falsely claims that FERPA—the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act—forbids schools from sharing a child’s gender identity with parents. In reality, FERPA protects parents’ right to access their child’s records, not the state’s right to withhold them. The test also suggests teachers cannot tell parents about a child’s sexual orientation, twisting AB 1955 to suggest a ban that doesn’t exist.

As Brett Loring explained, the implications are chilling. “They’re pushing this idea that gender is a social construct and that biology doesn’t matter. That’s what they’re teaching,” he said. “If you believe there are only two genders, they call you transphobic. That’s offensive, and it shuts down real discussion.”

Loring continued, “Middle schoolers are the most impressionable. They’re still figuring out who they are, and this kind of messaging feeds confusion. We’re telling kids who don’t even know what college they want to go to that they can pick their gender. That’s dangerous.”

He also warned of the long-term damage: “I’ve seen students transition, and not one of them has gone on to become a healthy, well-adjusted young adult. We’re going to see the fallout from this in ten years—confusion, regret, depression. It’s coming.”

Perhaps most concerning to Loring was how the training instructs teachers to withhold information from parents. “The training actually teaches that students have privacy rights from their parents,” he said. “It assumes parents are unsafe or will mistreat their children, so the school has to step in and keep secrets. That’s not our job.”

He added, “As a principal, I was always taught in loco parentis—we act in place of the parent while the student is in our care. This completely flips that on its head. If my son was holding hands with another boy at school, I’d want to know. Not to punish him, but to talk to him. That’s what good parents do.”

Finally, Loring emphasized his calling as a Believer: “I am called as a Christian to expose darkness and to defend the poor and the weak. Right now, there are a lot of weak kids out there—not physically, but mentally, spiritually, and emotionally—and they’re going to be taken advantage of if this continues.”

California Family Council Vice President Greg Burt said the PRISM curriculum represents a dangerous escalation in government-led indoctrination:

“Parents, pastors, and Christian teachers need to sound the alarm. This so-called ‘training’ isn’t about inclusion—it’s about indoctrination. It’s designed to shame anyone who holdsBiblicalbeliefs about sex, marriage, and what it means to be male or female. The state is funding a worldview that breeds hostility toward Christianity and undermines the moral foundation of our schools and families.”

Burt urged parents to get informed and involved in their local districts:

“Silence is not an option. California’s Christian community must stand up for truth and the rights of parents to raise their children without government interference.”

The California Family Council is currently preparing a follow-up article outlininghow teachers can formally request opt-outsfrom this offensive training andhow the PRISM curriculum violates federal directivesprohibiting the teaching of transgender ideology in public schools. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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