Public Barred from LCPS School Board Meetings

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What an embarrassing visual. Do these Democratic school boards that are curtailing public attendance at, and participation in, regular meetings realize the message they are sending parents and community residents before the fall 2019 elections?

https://loudounnow.com/2021/08/05/public-will-have-restricted-access-to-loudoun-school-board-meetings/

Good. Maybe "parents and community members" will learn to behave like adults and not like screaming teenagers from reality TV and then, and only then, the policy can be reevaluated.

That is cute considering getting in people's faces, screaming and yelling at government officials in PRIVATE settings, i.e., out at dinner, is highly encouraged and applauded by democrats.

A restaurant isn’t a private setting, it’s public. And it’s not impeding their actual job. You can tell Beth you don’t like her if you see her at Home Depot. You can’t threaten her or overrun school board meetings. It isn’t hard to conduct yourself like a human adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What an embarrassing visual. Do these Democratic school boards that are curtailing public attendance at, and participation in, regular meetings realize the message they are sending parents and community residents before the fall 2019 elections?

https://loudounnow.com/2021/08/05/public-will-have-restricted-access-to-loudoun-school-board-meetings/

Good. Maybe "parents and community members" will learn to behave like adults and not like screaming teenagers from reality TV and then, and only then, the policy can be reevaluated.

That is cute considering getting in people's faces, screaming and yelling at government officials in PRIVATE settings, i.e., out at dinner, is highly encouraged and applauded by democrats.

A restaurant isn’t a private setting, it’s public. And it’s not impeding their actual job. You can tell Beth you don’t like her if you see her at Home Depot. You can’t threaten her or overrun school board meetings. It isn’t hard to conduct yourself like a human adult.

Technically, a restaurant is a private establishment, which is why restaurants can require facemasks and deny service to patrons.

You have no expectation of privacy in public. Restaurants, however, since not public, can ban/bar you from coming in and from taking photos inside. That's why you see paparazzi photos of celebs through the windows of restaurants and not from 3 feet away at another table.

IMO, the restaurants should deal with those who yell at patrons eating by ousting them. I'm liberal but there's a time and place. Just because you happened upon Beth at your favorite restaurant it doesn't give you the right to make a scene, yell, and cause them to leave. If you want to do the yelling and screaming, go wait outside in public and try it there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have a link to the recorded meeting?

It will be posted in a few days at the LCPS website. It gets cut off around 10 or 11.

[Anonymous]

Tl;dr: The real fearmongers weren't able to put on a show for Tucker Carlson and NewsMax.

Cry harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

That is cute considering getting in people's faces, screaming and yelling at government officials in PRIVATE settings, i.e., out at dinner, is highly encouraged and applauded by democrats.

A restaurant isn’t a private setting, it’s public. And it’s not impeding their actual job. You can tell Beth you don’t like her if you see her at Home Depot. You can’t threaten her or overrun school board meetings. It isn’t hard to conduct yourself like a human adult.

Technically, a restaurant is a private establishment, which is why restaurants can require facemasks and deny service to patrons.

You have no expectation of privacy in public. Restaurants, however, since not public, can ban/bar you from coming in and from taking photos inside. That's why you see paparazzi photos of celebs through the windows of restaurants and not from 3 feet away at another table.

IMO, the restaurants should deal with those who yell at patrons eating by ousting them. I'm liberal but there's a time and place. Just because you happened upon Beth at your favorite restaurant it doesn't give you the right to make a scene, yell, and cause them to leave. If you want to do the yelling and screaming, go wait outside in public and try it there.

I don't agree with that either. You have the right to PETITION government for redress of grievances, and to assemble peaceably. This does not mean you accost government workers in other venues, or set up protests outside their house.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t VA have an open meetings law (didn’t real whole thread, sorry if already discussed)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t VA have an open meetings law (didn’t real whole thread, sorry if already discussed)?

IT WAS an open meeting! You signed up to speak and only spoke to the board one at a time with no one else but the board in the room! Nobody was banned from doing this, it went on for like 6 hours. They’re mad they lost their audience because the fight for schools nonsense is a performance

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t VA have an open meetings law (didn’t real whole thread, sorry if already discussed)?

IT WAS an open meeting! You signed up to speak and only spoke to the board one at a time with no one else but the board in the room! Nobody was banned from doing this, it went on for like 6 hours. They’re mad they lost their audience because the fight for schools nonsense is a performance

This. On top of everything else several of these extremists with very little education are hoping to launch political careers and get sound bytes on Fox. They are acting up for the attention. They saw that it worked for the orange fool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umm did you see what happened at the last one? They are rotating people in to keep the crowd small.

No more mobs. Sounds reasonable to me.

So the right to petition and protest our government stops when the crowd disagrees with your agenda. Got it.

More lying. This has nothing to do with what has gone on at the school board meetings. Grow up and stop imitating people on the Jerry Springer show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I personally abhor the idiots fighting the CRT straw man and hating trans children and demanding recalls of duly elected officials. But I don’t agree that the meetings should be closed to the public. I highly suspect this is illegal and hope someone sues.

It wasn't closed to the public. You had to sign up before the start of the meeting to speak. There were so many people signed up that it was estimated to take 6 hours. I didn't get to watch the entire thing, but I believe it did go 6 hours from what I've seen on FB. I think time was called and the vote will now happen tomorrow afternoon.

I think it's terrible that some of the Equity Loudoun speakers didn't feel comfortable enough to come in person due to what had transpired in the past. Also, nothing that was discussed tonight had to do with the CRT issue at all, so I feel that those protestors should have been made to set up at a perimeter farther back. It just distracts from the important issue of trans rights, which was the main point tonight.

Did you see the teacher who took her allotted time to publicly resign because she felt she had been forced to push a “politicized agenda” on students? They are going to find a way to keep it in the spotlight regardless of what’s actually on the docket.

I'm glad she resigned. I don't want any religious nutso teaching my kid. If I did, I'd send them to a private religious school.

Your religion has no place in your job. I don't care if you're a teacher, grocery store worker, doctor, garbageman, etc. - it doesn't belong.

Exactly. Good riddance. The fake tears were disgusting. Such a snowflake.