Citizen arrested for exercising his rights.
Posted on 07/18/2021 6:17:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
For most of 2021, Loudoun County Public Schools has been in the news. While much of the coverage has focused on the debate about critical race theory or transgender policies, the story of Loudoun County is far bigger. It’s about how a pandemic led parents to open their eyes and witness a school system run by incompetent officials focused on pleasing special interests and refusing to give parents a seat at the table to help shape their children’s education.
The story began during the pandemic, when parents were balancing work and managing their children’s virtual learning. By June of 2020, parents started speaking out in favor of full-time, in-person schooling. These efforts had no effect; in July then-Superintendent Eric Williams declared that the beginning of the 2020-21 school year would be virtual. Frustrated parents started showing up to school board meetings in droves, begging for their children to be able to return to a productive learning environment.
In January of 2021, this led to the first of what are now many of Loudoun County School Board’s viral moments. One father stepped to the podium and delivered a passionate speech that lambasted the school board members for their failure to “figure it out” and get children back in school.
During this debate on opening schools, distance learning gave parents a peek behind the curtain of what their children were learning. Kindergarteners having access to videos promoting BLM protests. Second grader girls being told that women and minorities do not get credit for their work. Ninth graders being assigned sexually explicit books. High schoolers being told about their white privilege, white fragility, and that being colorblind to skin color is a microaggression. At the same time, teachers were being trained that light skinned people of color were privileged and that it is the duty of teachers, not parents, to “inculcate morals” in students and that parents must accept that.
Ultimately, the inflection point came this past spring. On March 4, 2021, due to deplorable social media behavior with constituents, one of the school board members – Beth Barts - was stripped of her committees and censured, the highest punishment the school board can levy on one of its members. The school board member then sent an email to an account entitled “School Board Confidential” in which she attacked parents she believed were responsible for her censure.
A mere eight days after that censure, that same school board member posted a call to action in a private Facebook group called “The Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County.” She expressed concern about parents opposition to critical race theory and demanded that her colleagues should be pushing back against their constituents. Responding to this post, one member sought volunteers to “infiltrate,” “expose,” and “hack” people’s websites for opposing critical race theory. A second member of the group responded to that post by creating a follow-up post to list parents by name, area of residence, and school board representative. From there, dozens of parents were listed for speaking at school board meetings in support of opening school, in opposition to critical race theory, and even standing up for students’ First Amendment rights.
But the membership in that group was not simply private citizens. It included six school board members, the Commonwealth Attorney for Loudoun County, and a member of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. All stood by and did nothing to stop this planned campaign against parents.
Making matters worse, the school board’s activities violated open meetings law, the Virginia and United States Constitutions, and its own by-laws. That is why several parents met on a back deck in March and decided to form a non-partisan political action committee to run an effort to remove these six school board members for neglect of duty, misuse of office, and incompetence in the performance of their duties.
Unbowed, the school board has doubled down in its contempt for the laws which govern its conduct. It created an anonymous bias reporting portal for students, which led to a federal lawsuit. It suffered a withering loss in court after putting a teacher on leave because he spoke up at a school board meeting against a proposed transgender policy. And it shut down public comment during another recent school board meeting because of applause. There is now evidence of a second private Facebook group with seven school board members discussing school closure policies to the exclusion of 99% of the community.
Now the media and teachers’ unions are saying that this is politically motivated. That it is some nefarious plan to win elections. That parents don’t want schools to teach accurate history.
They can keep spreading that false narrative. We’ll keep fighting for meritocracy and equal opportunity, while demanding that Loudoun County Public Schools focus its educational priorities on math, science, reading, and a reading of history that mirrors former President Barack Obama’s statement that we should not “elevate that which is wrong with America, over all that we know is right with America.”
In a just society the Attorney General would be having a word or two with this school board. Convening a Grand Jury would be a good first step.
There are cameras in banks, airports, Walmarts, shopping malls, on traffic lights. There are cameras everywhere.
If they are not in school classrooms in every public school there should be and parent should be able access the video anytime they want so they can see and hear what is being taught to their kids and the kind of socialist/Marxist crap being pushed on them.
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I’m a public school teacher and I welcome cameras in my classroom. I know I’d be fine if parents or admins tuned in, I’d love it if people saw the little darlings behaving like the little entitled sh*t heads they are. Perhaps behavior would change. It’s sad that we’ve come to this, but then again — the left is entirely responsible for the breakdown in behavior as well.
I am amazed at London Co. All that has come out of this fight. Bravo!
There is something changing in the country. The Left in their blind panic to rid themselves of DJ Trump have as they so often do over reacted. This has caused many who would otherwise not bother themselves with political nonsense to pick up their head and begin to pay attention.
The libs are meeting strong resistance in their plans to downplay or denigrate the attempts these now interested voters are taking in the plans of the Left to take over and rehape our Nation to better suit their own (Communist/Socialist)views.
These stories of resistance are popping up increasingly despite the medias dedicated and coordinated effort to ignore and/or belittle them. The Left is loosing control and the proof his their hysterical reporting of the China Virus variant Delta and the suggestion the next one (Epsilon) is waiting to further destroy us if we don’t do exactly what the government says.
They are also beside themselves with what these audits are turning up and are trying all manner of truly ridiculous attempts to keep attention away from the ever growing uprising by a population who they believed they totally controlled and now see are not just waking up but are armed to a degree no other population the target of a takeover has ever been.
The Left will never admit to the fear and certainly not the media but to those paying close attention it is a palpable thing.
Change like we have not seen in generations is upon us.
Taxation is theft.
Loudon County parents, you magnificent bastards!
For those who didn’t read the article to the end, Loudon County is in Virginia. Columnists for national/international websites should include the state’s name early in the article, or even in the headline.
For clarification, the correct spelling is “Loudoun.” It’s one of the five richest counties in the country, maybe the richest. Up until a few years ago, it was reliably Republican. Since then, many thousands of houses have been built there. They have been mostly infested by liberals, most of whom are sucking on the teat of the federal government in one form or another.
To start fighting back, we need to run for school board in our local district. The school board is one way to stop the teachers from indoctrinating our children. The liberals love to say that a tax increase is for the children, but ELECTING CONSERVATIVES to the school board is REALLY FOR THE CHILDREN. Yes, we might miss out on the watching one day a week, but isn’t it worth it?
The Virginia Attorney General is a real card-carrying member of the Communist Party. I'm pretty sure he is all onboard with this.
Sixty- One percent for Biden! Suburban white women Fifty - five percent for Biden . They deserve it!
My neighbor just had her two young granddaughters visit for a week. She was amazed and disgusted at what spoiled and entitled little bee-yotches they were. Couldn’t wait to bring them back home.
Instead..... “Nah... It'll be fine!” they said.
Getting elected to the SB is not as easy as it sounds.
Getting on the slate is difficult.
True, but my nephew is running for SB in a Connecticut small town. The town just outside of Hartford is 97.6% white, but they want to teach CRT in the schools... Hope he wins...
Citizen arrested for exercising his rights.
Yes. I’ve been saying for years that CCTV should be in every classroom, aimed at the teacher. Parents should be able to go online at any time and see what’s going on in their kids’ classes in real time. (Just parents ... they would need passwords to filter out the possible pervs.)
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