The Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) is a public school district serving portions of the Orange County cities of Anaheim , Buena Park , Cypress , La Palma , and Stanton . It oversees eight junior high schools (7-8), eight high schools (9-12), and one non-magnet, secondary selective school, Oxford Academy (7-12).
9-632: Its superintendent, Dr. Elizabeth Novack, was fired in December 2013 without public explanation. The Board of Trustees appointed Michael Matsuda, the district's former BTSA Coordinator who also currently serves as Secretary on the North Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees. The school district has gained brief national notoriety twice: once in 1968 when members of the organization Mothers Organized for Moral Stability , inspired by
18-639: A joint statement with the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association that they’ve rescinded all RIF notifications. Los Alamitos High School (Established 1967, was in the Anaheim Union High School District until 1980 when it left to become part of the new Los Alamitos Unified School District . From 1898 through 1954, Anaheim Union High School was a four-year high school. Starting in the 1954-55 school year, AUHSD 7th through 12th grade education
27-623: The Los Alamitos Unified School District . Other former junior high schools: Mothers Organized for Moral Stability Mothers Organized for Moral Stability , also known as MOMS , was a socially conservative American organization that arose in Orange County, California in the 1960s and whose primary goal was to counter the cultural trend at the time towards allowing sexual education and techniques for birth control to be taught in public schools. It
36-567: The course be halted immediately. They also stated their firm belief, based on the film Pavlov's Children produced by members of the political Radical Right who saw the US as locked in conflict between Christian-based traditional values and Communist subversive "new" values, that the course was the result of a Soviet communist conspiracy orchestrated through the United Nations to make American youth amenable to totalitarian dictatorship. Within
45-601: The information in the pamphlet " Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? ", flooded a school board meeting and demanded that a course in sex education at the school be suspended, and again in 1978 when it banned the novels Silas Marner and Gone with the Wind from the school curriculum. The books and the course have long since been reinstated. In 2024, the school district has received backlash from
54-479: The local community as a result of its decision for a mass reduction in force (RIF), with the intent to lay off 10% of teachers (119 out of 1,259) increasing to now 253 teachers district-wide. In response to recent backlash, Michael Matsuda claims the layoffs were because of the expiration of federal funding at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and a drop in student enrollment. As of May 2024, the district has released
63-477: Was enrolled at one of the district's schools, got wind of the curriculum and began organizing a network of like-minded mothers to confront the school board. The members of this group flocked to a meeting of the school board and quoted material from a pamphlet, Is the Schoolhouse the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? , which had recently been published by Billy James Hargis 's Christian Crusade and demanded that
72-523: Was one of a number of such acronym-based conservative American organizations focused on sex education. MOMS was largely an organized reaction by conservative residents of the county to the Anaheim Union High School District 's family life and sex education course. The school district had implemented a sex education course in 1965 with little resistance. Three years later, in 1968, a homemaker named Eleanor Howe , whose son
81-481: Was split between three-year junior high school (grades 7-9) and three-year high school (10-12). This would continue until the 1980-81 school year, when junior high schools became two-year (7-8) and high schools became four-year (9-12) institutions. Pine Junior High School (Established 1968, now Christa McAuliffe Middle School) and Oak Junior High School (Established 1962, now Oak Middle School) were formerly in Anaheim Union High School District until 1980, but are now in
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