"Beth Barts, an elected Leesburg-Loudon County school board representative, promoted the “silence the opposition” message.Taxpayer-funded educators echoed the call. Jen Evans, whose Twitter handle @JenEvansLCPS lists her as “Supervisor, Student Assistance Services at Loudoun County Public Schools,” retweeted it.
Susan M. Hayden, a fourth-grade teacher at Mill Run Elementary School who volunteers “with the LCPS Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee,” did as well. The enemies list began after Barts was censured by the school board for failing to “welcome and encourage active cooperation of Loudoun County residents,” and then retreated to a private Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County,” whose members include current and former teachers and elected officials.
“I am very concerned that this [anti-] CRT ‘movement’ for lack of a better word is gaining support. It is difficult for me to bring attention to it without calling out specifics which may violate our code of conduct,” she wrote to the group.
Members — including most prolifically former Loudoun teacher Hilary Hultman-Lee — listed parents who were critical of, or even “neutral” towards, Critical Race Theory.
Member Jen Durham wrote that the purpose of the list was to use “hackers who can either shut down their websites or redirect them to pro-CRT/anti-racist informational webpages” and “expose these people publicly.”
Barts cheered them on. “Thank you for the response to my posting this morning,” she wrote. “Thank you for stepping up. Silence is complicity.”
She got one thing right. Silence is complicity. Throw them all out. Replace the government schools with something that works.