Loudoun County School Board meeting descends into absolute chaos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://loudounnow.com/2021/06/22/one-injured-as-loudoun-school-board-meeting-crowd-erupts/

Ha! That is a truly amazing picture in this article!!!

[Anonymous]

Well what an articulate fellow

[Anonymous]

Resisting arrest, but somehow the cops aren't afraid and aren't using weapons. Incredible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Resisting arrest, but somehow the cops aren't afraid and aren't using weapons. Incredible.

Seriously? This is being framed as a rights violation? Disrupting a public school board meeting is not a right.

BTW GOP, it’s “Loudoun”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Resisting arrest, but somehow the cops aren't afraid and aren't using weapons. Incredible.

Seriously? This is being framed as a rights violation? Disrupting a public school board meeting is not a right.

BTW GOP, it’s “Loudoun”.

I think they are citing the well-known right that white people can do whatever they want without consequence or penalty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are people freaking out about? Didn't Loudoun commit to opening school in person this fall?

They are freaking out that their children will learn about the role systemic racism has played in our nation’s history.

This is another poster with no children...

? only a racist wouldn't want their kids to be taught about actual history and the part racism played in it. I suppose you want history classes to teach that the Civil War was purely about state's rights and had nothing to do with slavery and that confederate soldiers were actually patriots rather than traitors.

-signed a parent

How about factuall history? CRT is not that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well what an articulate fellow

Please please tell me people refer to this group as PACk RaT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are people freaking out about? Didn't Loudoun commit to opening school in person this fall?

They are freaking out that their children will learn about the role systemic racism has played in our nation’s history.

This is another poster with no children...

? only a racist wouldn't want their kids to be taught about actual history and the part racism played in it. I suppose you want history classes to teach that the Civil War was purely about state's rights and had nothing to do with slavery and that confederate soldiers were actually patriots rather than traitors.

-signed a parent

How about factuall history? CRT is not that.

Could you describe what you believe CRT to be? Including specific examples from the curriculum that you find inaccurate would be helpful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was about transgender panic, not racism curricula.

"Black, of Ashburn, lambasted the board for its treatment of Byron "Tanner" Cross, a Leesburg Elementary School teacher who was placed on administrative leave last month after offering public comment at the May 25 board meeting.

"If his comments were not protected speech, then free speech does not exist at all," Black said.

Cross told the board that he would not recognize students' preferred gender pronouns or names if they choose to not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. He based his comments on a draft policy that, if passed in its current form, would mandate such recognition by school employees."

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/school-board-cuts-short-public-comment-during-final-meeting-of-academic-year/article_cd24fdfe-d3aa-11eb-a599-432963882f6b.html

It is not transgender panic, it is about living in reality. Throw in that the government cannot compel speech and I am in full support of him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This was about transgender panic, not racism curricula.

"Black, of Ashburn, lambasted the board for its treatment of Byron "Tanner" Cross, a Leesburg Elementary School teacher who was placed on administrative leave last month after offering public comment at the May 25 board meeting.

"If his comments were not protected speech, then free speech does not exist at all," Black said.

Cross told the board that he would not recognize students' preferred gender pronouns or names if they choose to not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. He based his comments on a draft policy that, if passed in its current form, would mandate such recognition by school employees."

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/school-board-cuts-short-public-comment-during-final-meeting-of-academic-year/article_cd24fdfe-d3aa-11eb-a599-432963882f6b.html

It is not transgender panic, it is about living in reality. Throw in that the government cannot compel speech and I am in full support of him.

His students should just start calling him Mrs. Cross and using feminine pronouns when addressing him.

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Anonymous wrote:The school board has approved curriculum that includes books describing blow jobs for 9th graders. In school. Blowjobs. They need to own that and they don’t want to. You can’t use that word in the school board meeting but it is ok in school? Ok! That makes total sense!!!

I would like to see a source for this. And I'd like to see the content, in context. Although I realize we probably can't yet.

If it's "Hey kids did you know Bl*w J*bs are really fun and you can't get pregnant! You should try it! Everyone is doing it! Here's the proper way to perform it!" then I would also be triggered.

Before the pandemic, LCPS purchased a diversity library of books to be included in classroom libraries. A group of parents started freaking out over the content of some of the books and demanding they be pulled from the classrooms. The pandemic shifted their attention to opening the schools and when the schools re-opened, books were brought up again. The two latest titles that the people are objecting to are Monday's Not Coming and #MurderTrending. I found the graphic violence in the latter more objectionable than the sexual content in the first, but both are appropriate for a high school audience. Also, in LCPS, a parent already has the option to ask that their child read an alternative title. The people flipping out aren't trying to say their kids can't read these books, they are saying that no kids should read them. And that's not okay. They don't get to decide what my kid can read.

Fwiw, people have banned mark twain and other books for using the N word. If people were allowed to read those books and see how commonplace racism was then that could be used as a tool to prompt discussion of racism. But no. we have to pretend that no one used the N word by banning books that have it. It’s crazy and a missed opportunity but blow jobs are just fine. Whatever. We are in private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was about transgender panic, not racism curricula.

"Black, of Ashburn, lambasted the board for its treatment of Byron "Tanner" Cross, a Leesburg Elementary School teacher who was placed on administrative leave last month after offering public comment at the May 25 board meeting.

"If his comments were not protected speech, then free speech does not exist at all," Black said.

Cross told the board that he would not recognize students' preferred gender pronouns or names if they choose to not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. He based his comments on a draft policy that, if passed in its current form, would mandate such recognition by school employees."

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/school-board-cuts-short-public-comment-during-final-meeting-of-academic-year/article_cd24fdfe-d3aa-11eb-a599-432963882f6b.html

It is not transgender panic, it is about living in reality. Throw in that the government cannot compel speech and I am in full support of him.

His students should just start calling him Mrs. Cross and using feminine pronouns when addressing him.

I'm not sure how you think that would help trans students or help trans acceptance. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Resisting arrest, but somehow the cops aren't afraid and aren't using weapons. Incredible.

Seriously? This is being framed as a rights violation? Disrupting a public school board meeting is not a right.

BTW GOP, it’s “Loudoun”.

I think they are citing the well-known right that white people can do whatever they want without consequence or penalty.

except here, it looks like a white person is being arrested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are people freaking out about? Didn't Loudoun commit to opening school in person this fall?

They are freaking out that their children will learn about the role systemic racism has played in our nation’s history.

This is another poster with no children...

? only a racist wouldn't want their kids to be taught about actual history and the part racism played in it. I suppose you want history classes to teach that the Civil War was purely about state's rights and had nothing to do with slavery and that confederate soldiers were actually patriots rather than traitors.

-signed a parent

NP. The vast majority of school districts have, for decades and decades, appropriately included the history of racism in their curricula. Acting like they haven’t isn’t a smart take.

Woo boy. The fact that all of us collectively learned about the Tulsa race riot in the last year is just one of MANY instances that clearly demonstrates that there is a large amount of this extremely relevant history that hasn't been taught. But also, as many have said, these lunatics are screaming about stuff that isn't actually happening.

I learned about it in school over 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Another racist VA county and the school system? How ordinary and not surprising. If they were in favor of their kids learning about systemic racism, now that would be a real surprise!