Posted on 10/15/2021 4:50:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
The education world is ablaze with the story from Loudon County, Virginia, about the tragic consequences of a school district policy opening up restrooms to students of both sexes. The Daily Wire reported this week that in May 2021, a boy (“allegedly wearing a skirt”) allegedly attacked a girl in the girls’ restroom and was criminally charged with forcible sodomy, anal sodomy, and forcible fellatio. A few weeks later, the victim’s father — Scott Smith — was arrested at a Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Board meeting when he joined other parents in protesting the bathroom use policy that enabled the attack on his daughter.
At the time of Smith’s arrest, LCPS had not revealed to other parents that the assault occurred. Nor had it revealed that the same assailant – whom LCPS reportedly transferred to another school as a result of the first assault — had attacked another girl at his new school.
But the problem goes much deeper than simply not mentioning the crimes, as bad as that is. In fact, at the June board meeting that prompted Smith’s arrest, LCPS officials were asked specifically about assaults in schools’ private facilities since the 2019 implementation of the bathroom use policy – and their responses were blatantly untrue.
Beginning at about the 6:47:10 mark of the meeting video, during a discussion of revising the bathroom use policy (officially known as Rule 1040) to comply with new state law, School Board Chair Brenda Sheridan poses a question to LCPS personnel who are testifying: “Have we had any issues involving transgender students in our bathrooms or locker rooms since the passage of 1040?”
The response comes from an official who is off-camera and therefore not clearly identifiable: “Ms. Sheridan, we have not had any issues to my knowledge.”
Maybe this official is just out of the loop, which would raise the question why they're the one responding to the inquiry. But none of the other officials speak up to offer any correction either.
Even worse, and even more incredibly, Superintendent Scott Ziegler asks for the floor so that he can double down on the erroneous denial. According to Ziegler, “The issue of assaults taking place, or transgender students assaulting other students in the restroom,” is a “red herring.” Ziegler then cites a 2016 Time Magazine article claiming such assaults are a myth.
“In fact,” Ziegler proclaims, “regardless of the gender or gender identity of a student, if a crime or a violation of the rules is committed, that would be investigated and dealt with to the full extent of the rules or the law... It’s not happening.”
Is it even conceivable that the district superintendent was unaware of two sexual assaults allegedly committed in the schools he supervises? If that’s true, LCPS has a critical problem in its administration. But the other possibility is much worse – that LCPS officials were deliberately misleading, and even going out of their way to mislead, the board and the community about the tragic results of the policy that LCPS champions as a testament to social justice and civil rights.
Forced to respond to the uproar after the assaults were reported publicly, LCPS finally issued a statement noting — contrary to the statements at the Board meeting — that the assault on Smith’s daughter (plus the other similar attack) had been reported to law enforcement and would be properly investigated by LCPS. The statement also claimed that “members of the Loudoun County School Board were not aware of the specific details of the incident until it was reported in media outlets earlier this week.” LCPS also added the irrelevant observation that Smith had not signed up to speak at the board meeting as though that somehow justified his arrest.
Note that LCPS doesn’t assert expressly that the board was unaware of the assault. It merely says the Board members didn’t know the “specific details” of the assault. Would LCPS officials really have concealed from the Board crimes committed at two schools – enabled by a policy that the board passed? Given the general level of incompetence and perhaps venality demonstrated by the administration in this sordid episode, anything’s possible. But if the district officials really were hiding the information, surely the board will consider mass terminations in the district office.
But maybe not. After all, this board passed the dangerous policy in the first place, with the majority ignoring common sense concerns about the safety of all LCPS students. And at the end of Superintendent Ziegler’s declaration of Nothing to See Here, one board member rejected the entire notion that possible assaults are a concern, saying “Our students do not need to be protected and they are not in danger from their transgender peers. And so that rhetoric is hurtful and false.”
Or maybe not.
Parents should remove their children from any schools that maintain these misguided policies. In the meantime, trust no one in any school administration to tell the truth — or to protect your kids.
More info here: https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/virginia-dad-vilified-for-defending-daughter-shows-rot-at-heart-of-system-devine/
Depends on who wins the Governor’s race . . .
So,so true......good catch.
The freak is most likely black and the race card prevents street justice.
I doubt the perp was even in the slightest "transgender".
He was a horny "normal" male who put on a skirt so he could get in and rape someone.
A "transgender" would have little interest in "another" female.
I know it's crazy, but this whole mess the left has gotten us into is insanity.
Parents should remove their children from any schools that maintain these misguided policies. In the meantime, trust no one in any school administration to tell the truth — or to protect your kids.
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Fool!
All schools have these policies for they are policies that are federal in nature. Remove all children.
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Hmmmmm......sounds a lot like 2020 prez election.......good thinking, FW.
absolutely why he was transferred.
Mommy must be on the board or otherwise involved with the school system.
Another dangerous Obama school district policy similar to the policy in Florida where the district shutdown reporting violent students to police.
These policies promoted a culture of rape and murder.
I doubt the perp was even in the slightest “transgender”.
He was a horny “normal” male who put on a skirt so he could get in and rape someone.
I doubt it. More likely the perp is a foster home kid who has been molested and abused himself. Severely deviant behavior like this isn’t due to being “horny.” There are much deeper issues at work here.
I had a similar problem with a grade school principal a few years ago.
I tried many ways to get through to him with no luck.
Finally, I told him, all right, I'm going to walk over to the courthouse and file a lawsuit against you for malfeasance.
I don't need a lawyer to do it.
I'll probably lose, but I don't care.
You will have to hire a lawyer to defend yourself.
I will attach every penny you have in savings, checking, 403B, you name it, everything for the length of the suit, which I will drag out for years.
Later that day, the bully who had been beating up my daughter apologized, and he and she even became friends.
Sometimes you have to threaten to make these peoples' lives a living hell to get through to them.
And I would have.
One has to wonder just what else the school board is not telling parents.
You are probably right.
That's why I put "normal" in quotes. Not really normal.
From the article:
“In fact,” Ziegler proclaims, “regardless of the gender or gender identity of a student, if a crime or a violation of the rules is committed, that would be investigated and dealt with to the full extent of the rules or the law”
That is how it used to be. Nowadays a girl or woman who dares to complain about being sexually assaulted by a biological male in the ladies’ room is labeled a transphobe and canceled. From the side that claims to be pro-woman, no less.
The FBI is probably labeling these parents as domestic terrorists as we speak.
The Super is LYING as it was Virginia state law at the time that ANY occurrence such as this, the Super and the Principal must be briefed IMMEDIATLY.
IMHO, VA is doomed. I live across the river from VA and the majority of voters there, particularly in northern VA, are stridently blue. Couple that with the national republican party lack of funding for the campaign (DNC is bring out the big guns in terms of campaigning and funding) and it spells doom.
Yes, that’s my guess too. But the idea that they just moved a rapist from one school to another is disturbing. Isn’t the RC church in BIG TROUBLE for doing just this?
Yes, that’s my guess too. But the idea that they just moved a rapist from one school to another is disturbing. Isn’t the RC church in BIG TROUBLE for doing just this?
Seems to me a whole lot of people in the Loudoun County Public School system are guilty of Accessory After the Fact.
...this includes ALL MEDIA, ALL GOVERNMENT and all the self-proclaimed experts.
Between the election, COVID, RUSSIA,RUSSIA,RUSSIA, and the "armed insurrection", have we learned NOTHING?!?!?!
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