California Told Us to Deceive Parents, but We Said No

Between us, we spent more than five decades teaching in California public schools. We both won Teacher of the Year awards. We coached teams, mentored struggling students, and built the kind of trust with families that only comes from showing up year after year. We didn’t enter education to become plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit. We entered it because we believed in children and in the partnership between schools and parents.

Then California told us to start lying to those parents.