Truth Detector (06-23-2021)
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. An official school board vote on the proposal is not expected until at least Aug. 10.
After the recess, board chair Brenda Sheridan said members had voted unanimously to end public comment if the room erupted again.
"The board is here to hear from everyone," she said. "We started our meeting early because we knew we would have a large crowd and we had a large agenda. We ask again that you respect each other, and everyone is allowed to speak."
Residents approached the podium to weigh in on both sides of the transgender proposal – but others brought up several other high-profile incidents in the community.
Multiple parents asked the district to drop its appeal of a court order to reinstate teacher Tanner Cross, who was suspended after speaking out publicly against the proposal. They argued that fighting the judge is a waste of taxpayers' money and doomed to fail.
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Another woman urged several board members, facing a recall effort, to resign and save taxpayers even more money. Others blasted a district official who allegedly made threatening Internet searches on a district smartphone.
Former state Sen. Dick Black, a Republican, excoriated the board over its treatment of Cross and allegations that progressive community members had organized a list of their conservative neighbors to harass and publicly shame. The chamber erupted in cheers, prompting the board to vote 9-0 to end public comment for the rest of the meeting – which led to loud chants of "Shame on you" directed at the board and demands that members resign.
LCSO noted Wednesday that the school board's superintendent was the one who declared the meeting an unlawful assembly.
Parents with the group Fight For Schools, which is working to recall a number of school board members, rallied against the proposal Monday night and again before and during the meeting Tuesday.
Ian Prior, a spokesman for the group and father of two Loudoun students who is also a former Justice Department official, said during the Monday rally that the Loudoun County School Board is refusing to give parents a seat at the table when it comes to how their kids are educated on controversial topics, including transgender issues and critical race theory.
"And that is the ultimate mission here is, it's something that starts here and spreads across the country, where parents get a seat at the table," he said. "Whether it's an association or organization, something where they have some kind of power to shape the future of education in their own towns."
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.
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Truth Detector (06-23-2021)
The reason so many of you are up in arms about CRT is that the thing CRT does most effectively is kill the myth of American exceptionalism that many people need to justify their complacency.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
evince (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021), Phantasmal (06-23-2021)
People are afraid of what they don't understand.
evince (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
I think they're also afraid of confronting reality; they want to believe that they achieved everything solely through their own self-assessed effort, and that they didn't receive any advantages, handouts, or leg ups to achieve the mediocrity, of which they're so proud.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
AProudLefty (06-23-2021), evince (06-23-2021), Guno צְבִי (06-23-2021)
CRT is easily understandable.
white oppressor
whiteness
systemic racist country
equity as an out come -not equal opportunity.
the catechism is 1619 Project
It's racist dividing instead of by class,and gives the power to government to insure equal outcomes
( which again is not the same as equal opportunity.)
Darth Omar (06-23-2021), Truth Detector (06-23-2021)
Do you understand CRT? If so please explain it to me.
I've read up on it and it's so nebulous and convoluted that i've never seen anyone trying to explain it make any sense.
One explanation I did see was that racism against whites and asians in academics, e.g., is necessary to achieve "equivalent outcomes".
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