Nearly one hundred supporters of TVUSD Board President Dr. Komrosky met in Temecula on Thursday, May 2, to rally against an upcoming recall vote for his position on the school board in Trustee Area 4. His supporters were carrying signs encouraging people to vote “No” in the upcoming June 4 election.
The effort to recall “Dr.K” has been supported heavily by One Temecula Valley PAC. They are challenging what they perceive as a divisive and controversial agenda under Dr. Komrosky’s leadership. Komrosky says many of the new policies they put in place are now in alignment with the California State Board of Education. Komrosky’s vote to create a committee to address materials parents presented in board meetings as erotica, pornographic and/or with pervasive profanity and not age appropriate also riled some teachers and residents.
The TVUSD board’s very first vote was to assure that if Critical Race Theory (CRT) is taught, it is presented as a theory in the classroom. The recall supporters cast it as racist, even though CRT separates people by color and casts all white people as oppressors and all people of color as victims.
The conservative board also passed a flag policy, causing teachers to get approval for any flag other than a state flag or American flag to be displayed on school grounds or in classrooms. This policy was also considered controversial.
Komrosky has criticized the recall effort, labeling it as baseless and accusing its proponents of using deceptive tactics to gather signatures. He staunchly defends his tenure and actions, asserting that he has faithfully executed the duties for which he was elected. He emphasizes his commitment to concentrating om upholding traditional family values and parental rights within the educational system and focusing more on increasing test scores.
Dr. Komrosky is a tenured professor and a disabled veteran who served as an Army Ranger. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from Biola University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. He’s a 10-year philosophy professor at Mt. San Antonio College who teaches logic full-time. He is also an adjunct professor at Cal State University of San Marcos. He has worked in nuclear medicine, as a nuclear medicine technologist & PET/CT technologist, for 20 years. His major research interests, with regards to his dissertation area, was Virtue Ethics.
To be counted, mail-in ballots must be postmarked on or before June 4 and received by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters no later than June 11. Ballots can be tracked by going to wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov.
