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.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Parents need to dump the entire board and start afresh
"If the Union is dissolved, I shall return to my native State, and share the miseries of the people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none" Robert E. Lee, February 1861 following hearing of Texas secession.
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