A Riverside County pastor is meeting with the city council to determine what to do about a school administrator’s allegations that students organized a sex room at Temecula Valley High School and took turns using it.
“It was in a changing room for the drama team,” said Pastor Tim Thompson who founded the 412 Church in Murrieta and Temecula Valley. “There was a roster and schedule of it created by a female student who had a key to the room. This person was keeping a schedule and promoting this as something that she was facilitating.”
Thompson learned of the allegations from Kevin Druhe, a retired Temecula Valley Unified School District assistant principal, who made the comments in a video interview that is posted on YouTube.
“The school board hasn’t said anything yet,” he said. “They've made no public comments at all. This is what they do. They just sweep things under the rug. That’s why I'm working with our city council to see what we can do to help hold the school board and the school district accountable.”
School Board President Adam Skumawitz and the Temecula Valley High School did not respond to requests for comment. However, the Temecula Valley Unified School District superintendent responded in a July 29 email.
“It's not the transparency we're looking for from our elected officials,” Thompson told the Southern California Record. “I think the school board is complicit in this and they need to be replaced.”
Thompson is cultivating conservative Christian school board candidates who are campaigning for election in Temecula, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, and Menifee in an effort to improve the education California students receive. As previously reported in the Southern California Record, he launched the Inland Empire Family PAC earlier this year and has been holding fundraisers ever since to reach a financial goal of $250,000.
“I'm not letting this blow over,” he said. “This is why I'm doing what I'm doing to get new school board members. This is just going to be fodder for us during the campaigns is that school board members have been complicit in their silence.”
Druhe also alleges that teen girls are allowed to parade around nude in the boys’ locker room in front of male staff and students.
“This female child who is clearly wearing a skirt, long hair and makeup looks like a girl and is disrobing in the boy's locker room but if the teacher says anything, then it’s insensitive towards this child's identity,” Thomspon added. “It's odd because the child is not dressing in a manner that would identify as a boy and clearly she is biologically female and dressing like a female. So, it’s a weird situation.”