‘They want to keep the education system their own indoctrination mill’
Loudoun County parents gathered outside the National School Boards Association (NSBA)’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, following a judge’s ruling Monday that a male student is guilty of sexually assaulting a female student at a girls’ bathroom in Loudoun County . Public Schools (LCPS)’s Stone Bridge High School.
“Loudoun County, Virginia, has been in the national news spotlight for several months,” Loudon County mother Patti Menders said at a rally on Wednesday, in a video posted on Twitter by 7 News I-Teams Scott Taylor. “It all started when six of the school board members were in a private Facebook group, and one of them incited the mob to blacklist and go after parents.”
People hold up signs during a “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) convention being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. – “Are you ready to take back our schools?” Republican activist Patti Menders called for a demonstration opposing anti-racism teachings that critics, like her, say train white children to see themselves as “oppressors.” “Yes!”, The hundreds of protesters gathered over the weekend near Washington responded to fight “critical race theory”, the latest battleground for America’s ongoing cultural wars. The term “critical race theory” defines a line of thought that emerged in American law schools in the late 1970s and which views racism as a system, made possible by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudice. But critics use it as a unifying phrase attacking teachers’ efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
“There were three pictures of me – my first and last name, my husband’s name, where my son goes to high school, what city I live in – they would take postcards and send them to my neighbors and call me racist.” said Menders. “They would bring a megaphone to our home and call us racists.”
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Loudon County’s mother Patti Menders now speaks at @momsforamerica protest in front @NSBAPublicEd headquarters in Virginia. She, along with other mothers, is outraged by NSBA letter sent to President Biden comparing some parents’ actions to domestic terrorism. @ 7NewsDC @LCPSofficial pic.twitter.com/5VLnugf6sJ
– Scott Taylor 7 News I-Team (@ScottTaylorTV) October 27, 2021
Another concerned mother in Loudoun County, Xi Van Fleet, spoke during Wednesday’s demonstration comparing the NSBA to the Chinese Communist Party, saying, “Americans need to know that communist infiltration in America is complete, especially in our education system.”
“The National School Board Association offers us a good example,” Van Fleet said. “When parents across the country go to the school board and express their outrage at CRT, what did the NSBA do then? They called the parents home terrorists.”
“Here’s another parallel,” Van Fleet continued. “The Chinese Communist Party and the NSBA do not want parents to be part of the education system. They want to keep the education system their own indoctrination mill.”
“The NSBA wants to keep our schools from using it to train our children to be social justice fighters and foot soldiers for the anti-American radical agenda,” Van Fleet confirmed.
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Loudoun County’s mother Xi Van Fleet is blowing on @NSBAPublicEd in front of its headquarters in Alexandria, VA. @momsforamerica is holding a protest against NSBA letter sent to President Biden asking the FBI to investigate parents in some school districts. @ 7NewsDC @LCPSofficial #Loudoun pic.twitter.com/rhy5u9gaq6
– Scott Taylor 7 News I-Team (@ScottTaylorTV) October 27, 2021
On Tuesday, two rallies were held outside LCPS headquarters – one group said they supported teachers and another group talked about the way the two cases of sexual assault were handled in the district – according to FOX 5 DC’s Lindsay Watts.
Other protesters are urging Ziegler to resign.
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2 rallies taking place outside the Loudoun Co-school headquarters. One group says they are here to support teachers and oppose division in the county. The other is here to comment on the way 2 cases of sexual assault on students were handled, with some urging inspectors to resign. @ fox5dc pic.twitter.com/4N5b0zRgXy
Lindsay Watts @LindsayAWatts October 26, 2021
The same day, students at Loudoun County’s Broad Run High School held a walkout in support of victims of sexual assault in the school district and to demand security.
During the demonstration, students were heard shouting, “Loudoun County protects rapists.”
Earlier this year, Loudoun County School Board member Beth Barts was found to be part of a private Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” that had created and shared a list of parents who were against CRT, according to the Political Action Committee Fight for the Schools, which initiated a recall effort against Barts and five other board members.
“What did we do to encourage this intimidation? We attended a school board meeting during public comments,” Menders explained.
Barts ended advertises her resignation a few weeks ago, after LCPS Inspector Scott Ziegler admitted the school district “failed” to provide a safe environment for its students. Ziegler’s comments were in response to local parents’ outrage over how reports of two sexual assaults were handled inside schools.
“The school board has adopted the transgender policy, which allows the opposite sex to use the toilet,” Menders continued.
“A horrific sexual assault happened in May, and this school board and superintendent covered it up,” she added. “They placed the predator back in another school to sexually assault another girl.”
On Monday, a 14-year-old male student – who was arrested in connection with the case for two cases of forced sodomy – found guilty of all charges. The sentence for the student will happen in November, but only after a Loudon County judge has ruled on the outcome of another set of charges against the same student involving sexual abuse at Broad Run High School.
While the gender fluidity was not raised during the hearing, court documents confirm that the male suspect was wearing a skirt when the assault took place in the girls’ bathroom.
Around the time of the sexual assault was LCPS about yourself with a policy that would give students who believe they are the opposite sex access to school facilities, groups and sports teams of their biological counterparts.
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