Cps Contacted As Parents Express Concerns Over Turning Point Usa Event Aimed At High School Students In Maryland

A Turning Point USA arena for Maryland precocious schoolers was reported to Child Protection Services aft parents expressed “serious concern” astir their children’s information astatine nan meeting.

A parent, identified only arsenic “Nancy,” told attendees astatine a Calvert County schoolhouse committee gathering connected February 12 that kids had been put astatine consequence because adults were not allowed to be nan event.

However, nan 17-year-old president of Calvert County Club America, which is associated pinch TPUSA, said that immoderate big attendance would still beryllium permitted. This attendance was constricted to parents and volunteers only owed to nan “hate” nan group had received online.

“We person been accused of galore things,” nan unnamed president said, explaining nan decision. “We person been accused of grooming children - an allegation that a random, unnamed man was president of our group and had definite felony charges.

“I'm nan president of nan group,” he continued. “I'm 17, I'm a minor.

“I can't groom children because I americium a child. I don't person immoderate felony charges aliases convictions.”

At nan proceeding earlier this month, Nancy maintained that she still believed nan arena was not safe.

Before revealing that CPS had been contacted, she said that nan arena “raises superior concerns related to student safety, parental authorities and governance oversight.”

"Excluding parents and guardians from a student-focused arena creates a deficiency of transparency and undermines established champion practices for younker safety,” she continued. "Students are wide recognized arsenic a susceptible population, they are successful captious developmental stages, and particularly susceptible to influence.”

It is chartless whether Nancy revenge nan CPS study herself.

There has been a surge successful young group joining Turning Point USA successful nan aftermath of its founder, Charlie Kirk’s, assassination past year.

In nan week pursuing Kirk’s decease successful September 2025, over 54,000 assemblage students contacted nan blimpish group astir membership.

The nonprofit organization states connected its website that it hopes to “educate, train, and shape students to beforehand nan principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and constricted government.”

It besides claims that capitalism is nan “most civilized and proven economical strategy ever discovered.”

President Donald Trump has long sung nan group’s praises, moreover appearing astatine a immense memorial arena for Kirk past year.

But nan group has often been criticized for the utmost views Kirk expressed while he was alive.

He regularly denounced what he referred to arsenic nan “LGBTQ agenda,” and called connected followers to overturn convictions of group charged for dislike crimes aft burning Pride aliases BLM flags.

Kirk besides claimed that Covid jabs had created a “medical apartheid” and suggested that nan 2022 predetermination had been rigged by President Biden.

In nan aftermath of his death, nan group is now tally by his widow, Erika Kirk.

The Independent has contacted Turning Point USA and nan Calvert County Board of Education for comment.