Exclusive | Woke California schools warned: Indoctrinate kids with extreme ideology — lose federal cash

California’s K-12 schools have been put on notice that indoctrinating children in extremist left wing ideology will lead to federal funding cuts.

In an exclusive interview with The California Post, the nation’s chief enforcer of civil rights Harmeet Dhillon has warned that political indoctrination, such as anti-Semitism, is now under the microscope, and won’t be tolerated.

Dhillon’s warning comes with genuine bite as all American public schools received federal government funding.

The push to investigate — and potentially defund — public schools comes as the federal government last week moved to join a lawsuit against UCLA’s medical school.

“What we’re seeing in K-12 is antisemitism, we’re seeing racism — all kinds of things,” said Dhillon, assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, said about California’s schools.

“There was a child injured in California during an anti-ICE protest, so there is political indoctrination going on at these schools as well.”

A 17-year-old was brutally stabbed when an anti-ICE protest turned violent LA in February last year.

In December, a group of eight San Jose high school students formed a human swastika on their school’s football field in a horrifying display of antisemitism that has sent shockwaves through the Silicon Valley community.

The disturbing scene was photographed and shared in a since-deleted social media post that featured an antisemitic 1939 quote from Adolf Hitler.

The students were ultimately disciplined with “restorative justice” — though the school’s administrators didn’t offer further explanation about what exactly it was.

Dhillon said they weren’t looking at admissions criteria in school talented and gifted programs, but specifically at ”racial, religious or anti-religious indoctrination”.

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“We’re also interested in making sure girls aren’t forced to expose themselves to boys in locker rooms. We’re seeing antisemitic, racism — we’re seeing all kinds of things,” she said.

In September, the Temecula Valley school board unanimously voted to let parents request privacy if their kids didn’t want to share bathrooms or changing rooms with trans classmates, backing down from an earlier proposal that sparked fury across the community, reports the East Bay Times.

The board’s original working policy would have required students to seek a religious exemption or fill out mental health forms to get privacy – a move that ignited a firestorm among parents who said their daughters shouldn’t need a shrink’s note to change in peace.

One parent, Gabriel Babin, claimed his 10-year-old son was watched by a girl in the bathroom earlier this year. “You’ve opened the door to unlimited scenarios where boys can start going into the bathrooms and touching girls.”

Since her appointment last April, Dhillon has aggressively redirected the focus of civil rights investigations and cases.

Her hiring prompted a slew of liberal-leaning prosecutors to resign from the DOJ.

Dhillon has put a microscope on close to 100 higher education institutions for issues ranging from racial discrimination and antisemitism to violations of free speech in silencing conservative groups. In her first week, she sent more than 70 letters to schools, alerting them that they would be coming under scrutiny.

“I want to eliminate race-based discrimination in America,” Dhillon said.

The lawsuit federal prosecutors are seeking to join accuses UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine — one of the top medical schools in the country — of giving preferential treatment to black and Hispanic applicants over white and Asian students.

It is the first case seeking to enforce a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that found Harvard and other schools’ affirmative action admissions programs were in violation of the law, Dhillon noted.

“Generally speaking, we are seeing some improvements in some schools, but medical schools seem to be the last bastion of openly woke and radical discrimination against whites and Asians,” Dhillon said.

The lawsuit against UCLA accuses school officials of engaging in “racial balancing” and “intentional discrimination” in favor of black applicants over white and Asian students.

The lawsuit, which also names Gov. Gavin Newsom as a defendant, was filed by Do No Harm, a group opposing identity-based policies in medicine, and Students for Fair Admissions, which filed the lawsuit that led to the anti-affirmative action Supreme Court decision.

Between 2020 and 2023, white and Asian applicants to UCLA’s medical school comprised approximately 73% of the applicant pool; however, their share of admissions declined sharply from 65.7% to 53.7% over those four years. Meanwhile, black applicants made up between 7-8% of applicants during this time as their admission rates rose from 8% to 14.29%.

“Students for Fair Admissions is deeply grateful that the Department of Justice has intervened in this important lawsuit,” Edward Blum, the group’s president, told The Post in an email. “This case may be the first of many.”

Dhillon called the lawsuit’s finding on applicants’ MCAT scores “very striking,” as they suggest black and Hispanic students, on average, had far lower scores than white and Asian applicants. Federal prosecutors have have engaged in settlement discussions with officials for UCLA and the University of California system, but no agreement has been reached. School officials did not respond to a request for comment.

“UCLA is clearly in violation,” Dhillon said, “but we are going to get a lot of information in this lawsuit and push forward the United States’ position to say they can’t do what they’re doing.”