Posted on 06/23/2021 3:30:29 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The embattled school board of Virginia’s Loudoun County cut off public comments during a fiery meeting Tuesday as residents traded barbs over new transgender policy proposals.
The meeting followed weeks of protests from district parents who oppose some of the measures, which they have criticized as potential left-wing indoctrination and a violation of parental rights.
The policies affect transgender student rights, privacy and restroom accommodations and would require Loudoun County Public Schools employees to use students’ preferred names or pronouns.
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The board meeting comes days after the district confined a Christian student to a small room during schoolwide periods of transgender-themed lessons that his family had objected to based on their faith – and after a court ordered the district to reinstate a suspended phys ed teacher who spoke out against the proposed new transgender policy at a board meeting last month.
259 people signed up for public comments. Only 51 voices were heard.
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The large number of conservative parents in the room began singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as board members filed out.
At least two people were arrested as parents cut off from speaking before the board remained in the room to deliver their prepared remarks to others in the crowd. One of them refused to leave until everyone had an opportunity to speak, and deputies told him that he would be arrested for trespassing if he refused to follow their orders to vacate the room.
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STOP PAYING YOUR SCHOOL TAXES
Lot’s of interesting comments at source.
I just watched the video on another forum and I wept !!!!!
It will break your heart!
A distinguished older man was earnestly trying to explain to police why they should support the parents........he was doing a good job.....
...a burly ‘officer’ comes up behind and says,....’Are you refusing to leave the room’.....
......the man says...yes
The officer says....’Arrest this man’......and they do!
The police are not your friends. they are pensioners with badges, following orders until they can retire.
They are revenue generators, ignoring safety issues to get the citizen most likely to pay the fine.
Don’t trust them. Especially the ones being rushed through the ranks now.
And once again, the paid enforcers of the democrat party, called police, stay right in line and follow the illegal orders of their democrat party overloads.
The way I see it.......there were kinder officers listening to the man.......
......it took one to change the trajectory
We support the police....
....they are caught in this web too and I imagine are very frustrated
Nothing would give our enemies more pleasure than for Conservatives to turn on law enforcement!
>> Nothing would give our enemies more pleasure than for Conservatives to turn on law enforcement!
If it only took one “bad” cop to turn the tide and get all the “good” ones to go full Nazi, then it proves out that all of them are bad but some of them are leaders.
Supporting the police is just giving bribes to your executioner to strike true.
You two are saying scary words that I don’t agree with
....I will NOT turn against law enforcement!
We have the best Sheriff in my county..........he would not do this
GESTAPO! It is past time to split with our libtard brethern.
GESTAPO! It is past time to split with our libtard brethern.
White liberal elites in liberal Loudoun county don’t want to be called racist 😂😂😂😂. On record I lived there from 99-06
Wow - Did the Deputies have on their Brown shirts and Swastika’s when they arrested their neighbors for trying to speak at a local school board meeting?
Major tax revenue in Loudoun County comes from Real Estate Tax and Personal Property Tax. I also pay Business Taxes.
Schools get 60% of the RE tax.
Tell me what happens if I stop paying.
Instead of that, I am actively working to Recall the School Board and I am constantly urging the Board of Supervisors to act. I push back when the Supervisors tell me the School Board makes policy and they can do nothing- Even though the BOS approves the LCPS budget.
I've lived here for 40+ years and don't want to deal with the Sheriff.
Your notion would make sense if 40 or 50% of Loudouners joined your "plan". That's not gonna happen.
Do you have any practical ideas?
There is no good queer, even in San Francisco
We are about to realize the real Marxist purpose and push for defunding the police.
FEDERALIZATION OF THE POLICE FORCES
Today, Joe Biden will address his new anti-crime plan and on the agenda is “the Federal government giving “NEW TOOLS” to local police departments.
(Remember how they moved into controlling local school districts)
I support the Sheriff. Yesterday, the School Board put the Sheriff in a "no win" position. I wish he had made the "other" choice.
It wasn't good when one of the protesters resisted arrest. That is not the guidance that Dr. ML King gave when he paraphrased Gandhi, writing:
“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. Do to us what you will and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children; send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities and drag us out on some wayside road, beating us and leaving us half dead, and we will still love you. But we will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.”
The arrestee would have made more progress if he had been cooperative because he would have been in a better position to be heard in a post-event interview on the Larry O'Connor show.
“Nothing would give our enemies more pleasure than for Conservatives to turn on law enforcement!”
Maybe law enforcement shouldn’t turn on conservatives.
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The school board needs a recall immediately.
If they keep acting like Gestapo for Leftist elected officials they will lose Conservative support, quickly.
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