Conservative confusion over schools

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Anonymous wrote:DeSantis/FL are not only going after AP courses, they're also looking at a "classical and Christian" alternative to the SAT.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...e-board-ap-sat/?lctg=136252390

No APs will be a setback for many students. They will be far behind their out-of-state peers. Also, if he goes forward with an "alternative to the SAT" that will HUGELY limit the number of colleges and universities those kids can attend.

I feel particularly bad for teenage Floridian girls right now - invasive inquiries about their menstrual cycles, severe restrictions put on their reproductive health, and now having their collegiate future stripped away from them. It's like Florida is sliding straight into a dystopian hellscape right out of the Handmaid's Tale.

You are so uninformed, pp. Find other sources. Find out what DeSantis actually said and what he wants to do.

Nope, the source is DeSantis and this is what he wants to do. Stop dodging and deflecting.

Watch the video posted above. They are looking at options. Right now, they have dual enrollment for college credit. How exactly is that "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?" It isn't. They are also looking at IB courses...... something schools all over the country have. They are also looking at other advanced coursework from other vendors. So, tell me again - how does this equate to "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?"

A majority of colleges and universities in America require an SAT or ACT score for determining eligibility for admission. And Florida has less than 20 IB schools statewide. If tomorrow, Florida were to get rid of AP and other college placement and aptitude tests and rely on IB schools, only a few thousand Florida students out of 185,000 graduating would be able to be accepted into college this fall.

You understand that DeSantis isnt *banning* SAT tests in Florida, right? He hasnt proposed that. No one will be stoppef from taking an SAT test in Florida.

Re: IB. Okay great. Now do dual enrollment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DeSantis/FL are not only going after AP courses, they're also looking at a "classical and Christian" alternative to the SAT.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...e-board-ap-sat/?lctg=136252390

It sounds like this may be a better alternative, in line with the French approach to teaching classic literature and philosophy. SAT encourages a lot of rote memorization vs critical thinking, and this CLT test may be an improvement.

Heresy!! /s

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Anonymous wrote:Ever since Glenn Youngkin squeaked to victory on a bad-faith platform that exploited suburban fears about public schools, Republicans everywhere have been adopting the playbook. Yell about “parental rights” and attack the phantom CRT menace. Lambast “equity” programs, especially if commitments to those can be juxtaposed against changes to academic programs that are tailored to higher-achieving students like honors classes.

Obviously we all know beyond being a cynical attempt to win elections, the real agenda behind this attack on education is to dumb down the future electorate since poorly educated people tend to vote more conservative. It’s also about trying to redirect taxpayer dollars to fund public schools to for-profit companies that run charter schools and also to religious-based private schools.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis has taken it a bit further and, in the name of protesting “liberal indoctrination” at post-secondary education (something that doesn’t actually exist, like CRT being taught in grade schools, but the dumbed down and frightened electorate doesn’t grasp this) but deliberately doing things like trying to turn a public school into a bastion of right-wing, reactionary education (see what’s happening at the New College).

But this has all gone completely meta now. Even as Republicans complain that the focus on equity in K-12 is resulting in things like honors programs being emphasized, DeSantis (whose policies and rhetoric are copied as much as Youngkin’s) is planning to do with AP courses IN THEIR ENTIRETY in Florida high schools. Because they’re too woke or something.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/18/4-things-know-about-ron-desantis-idea-slash-ap-courses-florida/

Make it make sense.

Not only that, Youngkin sent out a bat signal and got far right activists from all around the country to converge on NoVA school board meetings pretending to be local parents shrieking about everything and anything including imaginary CRT, resulting in school board members and school officials receiving horrific threats to rape and murder them and their children, burn their houses down and so on.

Calling it bad-faith is too gentle.

You are willfully ignoring what happened. Read the Grand Jury report.

The rape and how it was handled was bad, yes. But the far right also willfully ignored a lot of other aspects of the case that were out of the district's hands and made a lot of wrongful accusations, along with their far-right CRT lies and everything else. And despite the rape, NOTHING warranted those far right loons storming meetings lying and falsely pretending they were district parents, and making horrific threats to rape, torture, burn alive, murder school board members, school officials and their families. That was utterly disgusting, terroristic behavior by the far right and you may not willfully ignore that either.

Do you mean the parents who demanded that the school board take accountability for the rapes, which the board lied and denied happened? And then had the father arrested? Those "terrorists"?

If you pass a rapist around schools, and then call the parents who protest it liars and transphobes, things are going to get heated. In the end, a Grand Jury agreed with the parents, not the school board/your version of events.

We were also not told that the second girl was nearly choked to death. It was made to seem like a much more benign attack.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers should not talk to 3rd graders about sex. This shouldnt be controversial. It was common sense 5 years ago. This is why DeSantis has appeal, because you are correct, the left is terrifying when it comes to the bizarre insistence that children should learn about things like dildos and oral sex at school.

It's not just the dildos and oral sex DeSantis objects to...he doesn't want kids reading any book that depicts a same-sex couple (but heterosexual couples are fine of course).

That's the problem. If my choices are dildos or nothing, I will go with nothing. This would be really simple for the left to win, since there isnt a huge constituency of people with strong beliefs in the educational value of early exposure to dildos. But every extreme movement has an equal and opposite backlash. Just stop insisting on inappropriate sexual content for kids, and you wont create an opening for people to go after benign things like gay parents in books.

+100
If more parents simply had the common sense to object to graphic sexual novels in public school libraries, there wouldn't be an issue with the other books. But they don't. So here we are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ever since Glenn Youngkin squeaked to victory on a bad-faith platform that exploited suburban fears about public schools, Republicans everywhere have been adopting the playbook. Yell about “parental rights” and attack the phantom CRT menace. Lambast “equity” programs, especially if commitments to those can be juxtaposed against changes to academic programs that are tailored to higher-achieving students like honors classes.

Obviously we all know beyond being a cynical attempt to win elections, the real agenda behind this attack on education is to dumb down the future electorate since poorly educated people tend to vote more conservative. It’s also about trying to redirect taxpayer dollars to fund public schools to for-profit companies that run charter schools and also to religious-based private schools.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis has taken it a bit further and, in the name of protesting “liberal indoctrination” at post-secondary education (something that doesn’t actually exist, like CRT being taught in grade schools, but the dumbed down and frightened electorate doesn’t grasp this) but deliberately doing things like trying to turn a public school into a bastion of right-wing, reactionary education (see what’s happening at the New College).

But this has all gone completely meta now. Even as Republicans complain that the focus on equity in K-12 is resulting in things like honors programs being emphasized, DeSantis (whose policies and rhetoric are copied as much as Youngkin’s) is planning to do with AP courses IN THEIR ENTIRETY in Florida high schools. Because they’re too woke or something.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/18/4-things-know-about-ron-desantis-idea-slash-ap-courses-florida/

Make it make sense.

Not only that, Youngkin sent out a bat signal and got far right activists from all around the country to converge on NoVA school board meetings pretending to be local parents shrieking about everything and anything including imaginary CRT, resulting in school board members and school officials receiving horrific threats to rape and murder them and their children, burn their houses down and so on.

Calling it bad-faith is too gentle.

You are willfully ignoring what happened. Read the Grand Jury report.

The rape and how it was handled was bad, yes. But the far right also willfully ignored a lot of other aspects of the case that were out of the district's hands and made a lot of wrongful accusations, along with their far-right CRT lies and everything else. And despite the rape, NOTHING warranted those far right loons storming meetings lying and falsely pretending they were district parents, and making horrific threats to rape, torture, burn alive, murder school board members, school officials and their families. That was utterly disgusting, terroristic behavior by the far right and you may not willfully ignore that either.

Do you mean the parents who demanded that the school board take accountability for the rapes, which the board lied and denied happened? And then had the father arrested? Those "terrorists"?

If you pass a rapist around schools, and then call the parents who protest it liars and transphobes, things are going to get heated. In the end, a Grand Jury agreed with the parents, not the school board/your version of events.

We were also not told that the second girl was nearly choked to death. It was made to seem like a much more benign attack.

And that the boy wasnt even trans. That fact is also lost.

Bottom line-- the school didnt care about student safety, and they got called out. And then they went on the offensive by claiming the parents were making terroristic threats. And gullible people believed it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DeSantis/FL are not only going after AP courses, they're also looking at a "classical and Christian" alternative to the SAT.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...e-board-ap-sat/?lctg=136252390

No APs will be a setback for many students. They will be far behind their out-of-state peers. Also, if he goes forward with an "alternative to the SAT" that will HUGELY limit the number of colleges and universities those kids can attend.

I feel particularly bad for teenage Floridian girls right now - invasive inquiries about their menstrual cycles, severe restrictions put on their reproductive health, and now having their collegiate future stripped away from them. It's like Florida is sliding straight into a dystopian hellscape right out of the Handmaid's Tale.

You are so uninformed, pp. Find other sources. Find out what DeSantis actually said and what he wants to do.

Nope, the source is DeSantis and this is what he wants to do. Stop dodging and deflecting.

Watch the video posted above. They are looking at options. Right now, they have dual enrollment for college credit. How exactly is that "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?" It isn't. They are also looking at IB courses...... something schools all over the country have. They are also looking at other advanced coursework from other vendors. So, tell me again - how does this equate to "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?"

A majority of colleges and universities in America require an SAT or ACT score for determining eligibility for admission. And Florida has less than 20 IB schools statewide. If tomorrow, Florida were to get rid of AP and other college placement and aptitude tests and rely on IB schools, only a few thousand Florida students out of 185,000 graduating would be able to be accepted into college this fall.

See. This is your problem. You are leaping to false conclusions.
If you listen to DeSantis, he has said they are looking at "the best way" to provide FL students with rigorous advanced coursework. He named several options. They are researching the issue.
You think they are going to get rid of them tomorrow? If you know DeSantis, he is much more thoughtful and strategic that doing away with something when there is not a substitute in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis/FL are not only going after AP courses, they're also looking at a "classical and Christian" alternative to the SAT.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...e-board-ap-sat/?lctg=136252390

No APs will be a setback for many students. They will be far behind their out-of-state peers. Also, if he goes forward with an "alternative to the SAT" that will HUGELY limit the number of colleges and universities those kids can attend.

I feel particularly bad for teenage Floridian girls right now - invasive inquiries about their menstrual cycles, severe restrictions put on their reproductive health, and now having their collegiate future stripped away from them. It's like Florida is sliding straight into a dystopian hellscape right out of the Handmaid's Tale.

You are so uninformed, pp. Find other sources. Find out what DeSantis actually said and what he wants to do.

Nope, the source is DeSantis and this is what he wants to do. Stop dodging and deflecting.

Watch the video posted above. They are looking at options. Right now, they have dual enrollment for college credit. How exactly is that "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?" It isn't. They are also looking at IB courses...... something schools all over the country have. They are also looking at other advanced coursework from other vendors. So, tell me again - how does this equate to "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?"

A majority of colleges and universities in America require an SAT or ACT score for determining eligibility for admission. And Florida has less than 20 IB schools statewide. If tomorrow, Florida were to get rid of AP and other college placement and aptitude tests and rely on IB schools, only a few thousand Florida students out of 185,000 graduating would be able to be accepted into college this fall.

You understand that DeSantis isnt *banning* SAT tests in Florida, right? He hasnt proposed that. No one will be stoppef from taking an SAT test in Florida.

Re: IB. Okay great. Now do dual enrollment.

They already have dual enrollment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis/FL are not only going after AP courses, they're also looking at a "classical and Christian" alternative to the SAT.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...e-board-ap-sat/?lctg=136252390

No APs will be a setback for many students. They will be far behind their out-of-state peers. Also, if he goes forward with an "alternative to the SAT" that will HUGELY limit the number of colleges and universities those kids can attend.

I feel particularly bad for teenage Floridian girls right now - invasive inquiries about their menstrual cycles, severe restrictions put on their reproductive health, and now having their collegiate future stripped away from them. It's like Florida is sliding straight into a dystopian hellscape right out of the Handmaid's Tale.

You are so uninformed, pp. Find other sources. Find out what DeSantis actually said and what he wants to do.

Nope, the source is DeSantis and this is what he wants to do. Stop dodging and deflecting.

Watch the video posted above. They are looking at options. Right now, they have dual enrollment for college credit. How exactly is that "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?" It isn't. They are also looking at IB courses...... something schools all over the country have. They are also looking at other advanced coursework from other vendors. So, tell me again - how does this equate to "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?"

A majority of colleges and universities in America require an SAT or ACT score for determining eligibility for admission. And Florida has less than 20 IB schools statewide. If tomorrow, Florida were to get rid of AP and other college placement and aptitude tests and rely on IB schools, only a few thousand Florida students out of 185,000 graduating would be able to be accepted into college this fall.

See. This is your problem. You are leaping to false conclusions.
If you listen to DeSantis, he has said they are looking at "the best way" to provide FL students with rigorous advanced coursework. He named several options. They are researching the issue.
You think they are going to get rid of them tomorrow? If you know DeSantis, he is much more thoughtful and strategic that doing away with something when there is not a substitute in place.

+1. Pp's assertions dont make sense. All in-state students would have no issues. And kids going out of state would just take the required entrance exams. This is so simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis/FL are not only going after AP courses, they're also looking at a "classical and Christian" alternative to the SAT.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...e-board-ap-sat/?lctg=136252390

No APs will be a setback for many students. They will be far behind their out-of-state peers. Also, if he goes forward with an "alternative to the SAT" that will HUGELY limit the number of colleges and universities those kids can attend.

I feel particularly bad for teenage Floridian girls right now - invasive inquiries about their menstrual cycles, severe restrictions put on their reproductive health, and now having their collegiate future stripped away from them. It's like Florida is sliding straight into a dystopian hellscape right out of the Handmaid's Tale.

You are so uninformed, pp. Find other sources. Find out what DeSantis actually said and what he wants to do.

Nope, the source is DeSantis and this is what he wants to do. Stop dodging and deflecting.

Watch the video posted above. They are looking at options. Right now, they have dual enrollment for college credit. How exactly is that "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?" It isn't. They are also looking at IB courses...... something schools all over the country have. They are also looking at other advanced coursework from other vendors. So, tell me again - how does this equate to "having their collegiate future stripped away from them?"

A majority of colleges and universities in America require an SAT or ACT score for determining eligibility for admission. And Florida has less than 20 IB schools statewide. If tomorrow, Florida were to get rid of AP and other college placement and aptitude tests and rely on IB schools, only a few thousand Florida students out of 185,000 graduating would be able to be accepted into college this fall.

You understand that DeSantis isnt *banning* SAT tests in Florida, right? He hasnt proposed that. No one will be stoppef from taking an SAT test in Florida.

Re: IB. Okay great. Now do dual enrollment.

They already have dual enrollment.

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

Lesson: when institutions on the left get rid of SATs, they are leveling the playing field. When Florida colleges get rid of SATs, they are under the spell of a crazed theocratic fascist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lesson: when institutions on the left get rid of SATs, they are leveling the playing field. When Florida colleges get rid of SATs, they are under the spell of a crazed theocratic fascist.

LOL. Nailed it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lesson: when institutions on the left get rid of SATs, they are leveling the playing field. When Florida colleges get rid of SATs, they are under the spell of a crazed theocratic fascist.

LOL. Nailed it!

Sigh, yes

Carl Schmitt was right, the friend/enemy distinction is pretty much all there is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This "they don't even teach CRT" line has to be the most tired and disingenuous part of this entire debate.

The right just got in the habit of calling it CRT because the left refuses to name it, and "CRT" is snappier than "race essentialism & everything is racism" - so just think of it that way, and then maybe you'll understand.

It doesn't mean "we don't want schools teaching kids about slavery," it means "we don't want schools teaching kids from stupid powerpoints about phantom white supremacy." Google "Tema Okun" if you're still confused, and yes, ideas like hers pop up regularly in public and private schools, and to many normal educated people, seem utterly insane.

So, the parent perception in many cases is that things like gifted tracks and even basic reading (Google "Lucy Calkins controversy" or similar) are getting the short end of the stick while far-left teachers (Google "libs of TikTok") are pushing incoherent, time-wasting nonsense on the children in their place.

Meanwhile the parents are being told to STFU and foot the bill and "trust the experts," as if real experts would be caught dead pushing any of the BS that regularly comes home in the kids' school folders.

So... if you're curious why McAuliffe lost.

Applause. Well said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ever since Glenn Youngkin squeaked to victory on a bad-faith platform that exploited suburban fears about public schools, Republicans everywhere have been adopting the playbook. Yell about “parental rights” and attack the phantom CRT menace. Lambast “equity” programs, especially if commitments to those can be juxtaposed against changes to academic programs that are tailored to higher-achieving students like honors classes.

Obviously we all know beyond being a cynical attempt to win elections, the real agenda behind this attack on education is to dumb down the future electorate since poorly educated people tend to vote more conservative. It’s also about trying to redirect taxpayer dollars to fund public schools to for-profit companies that run charter schools and also to religious-based private schools.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis has taken it a bit further and, in the name of protesting “liberal indoctrination” at post-secondary education (something that doesn’t actually exist, like CRT being taught in grade schools, but the dumbed down and frightened electorate doesn’t grasp this) but deliberately doing things like trying to turn a public school into a bastion of right-wing, reactionary education (see what’s happening at the New College).

But this has all gone completely meta now. Even as Republicans complain that the focus on equity in K-12 is resulting in things like honors programs being emphasized, DeSantis (whose policies and rhetoric are copied as much as Youngkin’s) is planning to do with AP courses IN THEIR ENTIRETY in Florida high schools. Because they’re too woke or something.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/18/4-things-know-about-ron-desantis-idea-slash-ap-courses-florida/

Make it make sense.

Not only that, Youngkin sent out a bat signal and got far right activists from all around the country to converge on NoVA school board meetings pretending to be local parents shrieking about everything and anything including imaginary CRT, resulting in school board members and school officials receiving horrific threats to rape and murder them and their children, burn their houses down and so on.

Calling it bad-faith is too gentle.

You are willfully ignoring what happened. Read the Grand Jury report.

The rape and how it was handled was bad, yes. But the far right also willfully ignored a lot of other aspects of the case that were out of the district's hands and made a lot of wrongful accusations, along with their far-right CRT lies and everything else. And despite the rape, NOTHING warranted those far right loons storming meetings lying and falsely pretending they were district parents, and making horrific threats to rape, torture, burn alive, murder school board members, school officials and their families. That was utterly disgusting, terroristic behavior by the far right and you may not willfully ignore that either.

This is what I remember about the parents who "stormed" the meeting.

As much as I feel bad for what happened in that school, you don't report a crime by getting violent at a school board meeting. Take it up with the police. That is what the school did - they reported it to the police and followed procedure. The right wing screamed about "coverup" but the reality was that they were NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED to divulge details of what transpired. I think the rapist kid should have been expelled and arrested rather than ending up in another school but the lack of arrest is on the police, not the school. Also, I think this has less to do with being trans than it does about the rapist kid being a predator. Being trans does not somehow automatically make one a predator and rapist. He probably would have raped someone even if he wasn't trans.

And again, Loudoun school officials were getting dozens of horrific, violent threats every single day. That's horrible and unjustifiable. https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/10/loudoun-co-school-board-receiving-violent-threats-school-says/ The people making threats are still making threats even today, and the calls come from all over the country.

Also, I recall reading about numerous far right activists who were identified disrupting Loudoun school board meetings lying and pretending to be parents who were from as far away as North Carolina. Some of them also turned up tied into the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. I recall the far right woman who was first questioned about the Moore County NC incident involving the transformers that were shot ahead of a drag event also was involved in the Loudon County protests. These are not nice people and were not "concerned Loudon parents" - they are extremists and domestic terrorists.

But people like Benny Johnson don't acknowledge any of that part of the story at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ever since Glenn Youngkin squeaked to victory on a bad-faith platform that exploited suburban fears about public schools, Republicans everywhere have been adopting the playbook. Yell about “parental rights” and attack the phantom CRT menace. Lambast “equity” programs, especially if commitments to those can be juxtaposed against changes to academic programs that are tailored to higher-achieving students like honors classes.

Obviously we all know beyond being a cynical attempt to win elections, the real agenda behind this attack on education is to dumb down the future electorate since poorly educated people tend to vote more conservative. It’s also about trying to redirect taxpayer dollars to fund public schools to for-profit companies that run charter schools and also to religious-based private schools.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis has taken it a bit further and, in the name of protesting “liberal indoctrination” at post-secondary education (something that doesn’t actually exist, like CRT being taught in grade schools, but the dumbed down and frightened electorate doesn’t grasp this) but deliberately doing things like trying to turn a public school into a bastion of right-wing, reactionary education (see what’s happening at the New College).

But this has all gone completely meta now. Even as Republicans complain that the focus on equity in K-12 is resulting in things like honors programs being emphasized, DeSantis (whose policies and rhetoric are copied as much as Youngkin’s) is planning to do with AP courses IN THEIR ENTIRETY in Florida high schools. Because they’re too woke or something.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/18/4-things-know-about-ron-desantis-idea-slash-ap-courses-florida/

Make it make sense.

Not only that, Youngkin sent out a bat signal and got far right activists from all around the country to converge on NoVA school board meetings pretending to be local parents shrieking about everything and anything including imaginary CRT, resulting in school board members and school officials receiving horrific threats to rape and murder them and their children, burn their houses down and so on.

Calling it bad-faith is too gentle.

You are willfully ignoring what happened. Read the Grand Jury report.

The rape and how it was handled was bad, yes. But the far right also willfully ignored a lot of other aspects of the case that were out of the district's hands and made a lot of wrongful accusations, along with their far-right CRT lies and everything else. And despite the rape, NOTHING warranted those far right loons storming meetings lying and falsely pretending they were district parents, and making horrific threats to rape, torture, burn alive, murder school board members, school officials and their families. That was utterly disgusting, terroristic behavior by the far right and you may not willfully ignore that either.

This is what I remember about the parents who "stormed" the meeting.

As much as I feel bad for what happened in that school, you don't report a crime by getting violent at a school board meeting. Take it up with the police. That is what the school did - they reported it to the police and followed procedure. The right wing screamed about "coverup" but the reality was that they were NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED to divulge details of what transpired. I think the rapist kid should have been expelled and arrested rather than ending up in another school but the lack of arrest is on the police, not the school. Also, I think this has less to do with being trans than it does about the rapist kid being a predator. Being trans does not somehow automatically make one a predator and rapist. He probably would have raped someone even if he wasn't trans.

And again, Loudoun school officials were getting dozens of horrific, violent threats every single day. That's horrible and unjustifiable. https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/10/loudoun-co-school-board-receiving-violent-threats-school-says/ The people making threats are still making threats even today, and the calls come from all over the country.

Also, I recall reading about numerous far right activists who were identified disrupting Loudoun school board meetings lying and pretending to be parents who were from as far away as North Carolina. Some of them also turned up tied into the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. I recall the far right woman who was first questioned about the Moore County NC incident involving the transformers that were shot ahead of a drag event also was involved in the Loudon County protests. These are not nice people and were not "concerned Loudon parents" - they are extremists and domestic terrorists.

But people like Benny Johnson don't acknowledge any of that part of the story at all.

Are you misinformed or lying? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/loudoun-county-school-board-fires-superintendent-after-explosive-grand-jury-report/ar-AA150Vs8