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  1. That means that most Democrats will never learn anything about any of this except for hearing that some angry and aggressive right-wing parents have become domestic terrorists against noble progressive school boards.

    That’s both infuriating and depressing, but almost certainly true. In a sane world this would be a lead story everywhere for days. But in this world it’s going to be relegated to some sort of whacky “right wing conspiracy theory” story in the minds of a lot of progressives (if they hear anything about it at all) who may otherwise have been as rightfully appalled as everyone else.

    But it does make me wonder if all these supposed “journalists” who refuse to report the truth ever feel any empathy or sympathy for either the child or the father, and if so if they actually feel any guilt for hiding the truth? How many raped children stories will they bury in order to protect their precious narrative?

  2. The left wing activist who provoked the father by telling him his daughter had lied about the rape was wearing a tee shirt with a heart shape in front that was filled with rainbow colors. You can see her in the video of the incident.

  3. For the mendacious MSM (the Ministry of Propaganda for not only the ruling party, but also for the regnant ideology of “wokeism”), the suffering of a young girl brutally raped and valiantly defended by her unsophisticated father (a plumber of all things!) is as nothing compared to the importance of maintaining the entire foundation of lies and insanity upon which is built the hideous edifice which protects the power and the privilege of those utterly corrupt persons who are in the process of demolishing our badly-damaged, perhaps irreparable republic. It is not at all clear whether there exists anything at all which might save the nation which formerly existed from utter ruination.

  4. A few years ago Loudon was the fastest growing county in the country. I suspect that the once sleepy environment was inundated by immigrating petty tyrants who were infected with the DC power-control virus.

    We had begun to get a small taste of it in beautiful, neighboring Fauquier County. When I left, Fauquier had a total population of about 75,000, but was beginning to experience pangs as the overflow from our neighbors in Fairfax and Loudon found us.. Many people moving to our bucolic environment from the in-close DC suburbs, immediately wanted to change it. I attended a Board of Supervisor’s meeting and sat behind two women who were obviously recent arrivals, and listened to them lament (euphemistically speaking) the paucity of services and culture.

  5. I found out that Loudoun County, VA, is named for a Scottish nobleman, the Earl of Loudoun, who was governor-general of VA in the late 1750s. The spelling of his title varied, however– Benjamin Franklin and others spelled it “Loudon” — which made me think of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudon, a nonfiction book about a town in France that was gripped by an outbreak of mass hysteria and fanaticism in 1634. The local priest (who was a Lothario, to put it mildly, and had seduced several of the town councilors’ daughters) had previously offended Cardinal Richelieu for political reasons, and the cardinal saw to it that the priest was burned at the stake in August 1634.

    There must be something about the name “Loudo(u)n” that brings out the worst in people inclined to mob violence.

  6. Loudon is one of the several counties surrounding D.C., which are predominantly peopled by Federal employees. Thus the makeup of the Loudon school board and its Democratic attitudes. It is truly the Deep State, amoral, lying and powerful.
    But, heh, even these people need plumbers and other trades!

  7. A Loudoun County School Board member, Beth Barts, has resigned:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10097271/I-look-forward-simpler-life-Member-woke-Loudoun-School-board-RESIGNS.html

    There are also calls for the superintendent of schools to resign. The school district is no longer required by law to report misdemeanor incidents (law change signed by Gov. Northam), but it is required to report “crimes,” which certainly includes this rape report.

  8. Did the parents of the girl go the police to report the assault? Did the school report the assault to the police? What about the second assault committed by the perp, same questions? Is there any reporting on that?

  9. Loudon is one of the several counties surrounding D.C., which are predominantly peopled by Federal employees.

    They aren’t. Federal employees account for about 20% of the working population in and around DC. That’s military and civilian, btw.

  10. Let me guess; nobody on the Loudoun school board has a child in that school district.
    Liberals are all for promoting agendas that do not affect them.

    Guaranteed, if their own children came home asking questions about oral sex or homosexual sex – stuff their kids learned in school – they, the liberal parents, would raise hell.
    One can only hope that their own kids are exposed to this garbage. Let’s then see how the pseudo-liberal parents react.

  11. Aggie —

    IIRC there was a Nazi-era German word that meant “doing what the Führer would want without having to be ordered to do it”. Naturally I can’t find the word, but we’ve certainly seen it in operation over the last ten years — nobody had to order Lois Lerner to mess with the Tea Party groups, she just knew it was the right thing to do by the then Administration.

  12. Getting the school superintendent fired is not nearly enough consequence for his actions. And the entire board needs to both be fired and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Not that the county’s Soros DA will do so. Add her to the list.

    The Smith’s are sueing, which at best will result in the taxpayers paying, which again is both somewhat misplaced and insufficient. Every member of that school board who knew and did not go public deserves imprisonment. There’s probably no law with which they can be charged, so civil lawsuits will have to suffice. If not, politics by other means. One way or another, there must be personnal consequence. Justice can be satisfied with nothing less.

  13. If the system fails to punish the boy in a dress, it is the citizens duty to bring about justice. Brutal permanent justice.

  14. Whoops, I responded in the wrong thread. I’ll re-comment over there where it’s germane.

  15. It would not matter if the dems knew about this. They have their victim hierarchy as to who can do no wrong and to whom nothing may be done, and to whom it is perfectly fine for the first group(s) to do harm.
    As in Rotherham; if any complaint managed to come to the attention of the authorities, it was dismissed as the Brit version of white trash complaining.

  16. PA Cat,

    That’s an incredible analogy with the title of the Huxley work! I hope a journalist with a national audience reads your comment. Very coincidental factoid to add to reporting on this.

  17. Paul in Boston,

    I live in Loudoun County so have been following this story closely. My understanding is that there was a police report for at least the first assault. Also the girl was evaluated at the hospital and there was evidence of rape.

    BTW, it’s pronounced Loud-oun County. Not Lou-doun County as most pundits have been saying.

  18. Geoffrey Britain,

    I agree the citizens end up paying a lawsuit, but, my goodness, that family deserves recompense. That poor girl has suffered mightily and her parents were treated horribly.

  19. There were a fair amount of minor-aged delinquents and oddballs in my school district. When they broke laws or refused to obey teachers’ instructions they were removed from class. The district had separate facilities to work with those kids, and if they demonstrated improvement they could earn their way back to their school and classroom. I felt for many of them l. Almost all were from rough home environments, but school was a privilege for kids who wanted an education.

  20. Yes Richard. Shades of Rotherham.

    “Time magazine in 2016 called that a red herring … we’ve heard it several times tonight from our public speakers but the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist,”

    This verbal misdirection and legalistic wordsmithing really pisses me off. Who gives a sh_t what Time magazine said in 2016? It’s related to a documented sexual assault how? The predator transgender student doesn’t exist because the perp was actually a predator bisexual student in drag. Aargh!

  21. PA+Cat, Rufus T. Firefly:

    Ken Russell, the director, turned Huxley’s “The Devils of Loudon,” into an over-the-top film. Good, though not great, unless one is a fan of Russell or Huxley.

  22. I ran across a secondary reason for the retreat from merit in American education.

    It’s not just to help blacks and hispanics on account of “equity,” but also to conceal that teachers are doing a worse and worse job of educating all their students — minorities the worst of all.

  23. It’s not just to help blacks and hispanics on account of “equity,” but also to conceal that teachers are doing a worse and worse job of educating all their students — minorities the worst of all.

    Not sure they’re doing increasingly poorly, but there’s long been tremendous slack at all levels. Quite unnecessary.

  24. The school in loudon are run by budding satanists. Notice their household incomes.

    These are routine satanic rite practices and initiations. They must target someone in the communityz destroy them, and then have the community cover it up.

    So long as america ignores thisz all of you are held cokkectively responsible. Which includes collective penalties.

  25. After hearing his daughter being accused of lying about the rape, Scott Smith demonstrated phenomenal restraint by not actually strangling someone.

  26. je @ 3:23:

    “For the mendacious MSM (the Ministry of Propaganda for not only the ruling party, but also for the regnant ideology of “wokeism”), the suffering of a young girl brutally raped and valiantly defended by her unsophisticated father (a plumber of all things!) is as nothing compared to the importance of maintaining the entire foundation of lies and insanity upon which is built the hideous edifice which protects the power and the privilege of those utterly corrupt persons who are in the process of demolishing our badly-damaged, perhaps irreparable republic. It is not at all clear whether there exists anything at all which might save the nation which formerly existed from utter ruination.”

    Thank you je- for me that says it all.

  27. Rufus,

    The only compensation that will even begin to satisfy the girl and her family is castration of her rapist and the imprisonment of the entire Loudoun school board. Then and only then will financial recompense be appropriate because without the aforementioned consequences, any amount of monetary compensation is an insult. No amount of money can, solely in and of itself return justice.

  28. Re: Beth Barts…

    Kate:

    The articles on Beth Barts’ regsignation I’ve seen fail to mention a crucial fact — Barts was facing an investigation:
    _________________________________

    One of them, school-board member Beth Barts, now faces a special prosecutor investigating her for misconduct. Barts is accused of asking members of her group to target, harass and even hack parents opposing the teaching of CRT.

    https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/schools-boards-persecute-dissident-parents/
    _________________________________

    Good riddance.

    However, it seems to me her resignation should not exempt her from that investigation.

  29. The penetration happened through the back… black hole… wh h/t NA… Oh, never mind. It wasn’t rape-rape.

    The predator transgender student doesn’t exist because the perp was actually a predator bisexual student in drag.

    Transgender, trans-social, and transhumane. The trifecta of social progress.

    All’s fair in lust and abortion, I suppose.

  30. These are routine satanic rite practices and initiations.

    Rites or rights? A novel religion.

    Roe, Roe, Roe your baby, gently down the river Styx.

  31. Paul in Boston –

    My understanding is that when the the Dad arrived at the school after being called, he was told what had happened, and that the school would handle it internally. He raised a fuss about this, and the school called the cops. But when the cop who arrived was told what had happened, he immediately took the father and daughter to the hospital for a rape test kit. The cop then took a report.

    From what I’ve heard, the suspect was waiting for his juvie hearing. But rather than lock him up in the meantime or suspend him, he was sent to a different school, which is where the second attack occurred.

  32. But rather than lock him up in the meantime or suspend him, he was sent to a different school, which is where the second attack occurred.

    junior:

    Sounds like Loudoun has taken lessons from the Catholic Church’s handling of pedo priests.

  33. Sounds like Loudoun has taken lessons from the Catholic Church’s handling of pedo priests.

    Complaints against priests were seldom made in real time. Fifteen years after the fact was about normal.

  34. @ Art Deco > “Complaints against priests were seldom made in real time. Fifteen years after the fact was about normal.”

    That was back when people trusted institutions like the Churchesand Schools.
    We know better now.

    BTW, props to the cop who did the right thing. I suspect he (she?) will now be fired for messing up the narrative.

    Roundup of links for some of the things mentioned above.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-final-straw-pa-school-board-assn-withdraws-from-national-assn-after-domestic-terrorism-letter

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-update-family-of-alleged-rape-victim-to-sue-school-district

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking

  35. Not the Bee has some things that aren’t in any other report I’ve read, but they don’t give a source; however, I eventually tracked it down to the Daily Wire story here, which I didn’t read because it’s behind a paywall, and I try not to get my nom on too many Samizdat outlets. Plus, I can’t afford to pay every site I read on the Internet! I may sign up for DW sometime, though, because they do great work.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says

    This outlet pretty much summarized the DW report (so did others, but it was the best), and confirms NTB’s account.
    https://politicofire.com/2021/10/12/man-arrested-at-loudoun-county-school-board-meeting-says-officials-covered-up-his-daughters-rape/

    Andrea Widburg aka Bookworm took a hit for the team ($4/month) and commented on the DW story here.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/loudoun_county_schools_are_worse_even_than_you_imagined.html

    So, what is comment about?

    https://notthebee.com/article/loudoun-county-father-says-daughter-was-raped-by-male-transgender-teen

    At the meeting, a woman named Jackie Schworm told Scott that his daughter was lying about the rape, and also that she was personally going to try to ruin his plumbing business on social media because she believed he was on the wRoNg siDe oF hiStOrY.

    Schworm is a far left activist who, according to The Daily Wire, regularly posts on a far-left “anti-racist” parent group that made headlines a few months ago for suggesting that a list should be made of parents who oppose Critical Race Theory.

    As Scott was being arrested, his wife Jess (who had mentored Schworm’s daughter in the Girl Scouts) yelled this in the chaos:

    “My child was raped at school, and this is what happens!”

    The Girl Scouts went down the Woke Drain many years ago, but this makes me wonder what party the Scotts actually vote for (even plumbers can be Democrats in Virginia), and if this will change their minds.

  36. In case anyone is interested, these are the other posts that I found looking for “Jackie Schworm” – all of the depend on the DW story, but found different parts to emphasize and omit. Editorial discretion and all that.
    Of course, the MSM aka Democrats-with-bylines omitted ALL the relevant material, as Neo pointed out.

    https://www.rebelnews.com/daughter_of_parent_arrested_at_virginia_school_board_meeting_allegedly_raped_prior_to_incident

    https://thedeplorablepatriot.com/2021/10/12/father-says-loudoun-county-schools-concealed-rape-of-daughter-by-trans-student/

    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/10/13/dad-who-says-child-was-raped-in-girls-bathroom-by-skirt-wearing-male-fights-biden-intimidation-1147922/

  37. Widburg had the best commentary, although not as extensive a summary, so I want to post her conclusion (link the same as above):
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/loudoun_county_schools_are_worse_even_than_you_imagined.html

    The Daily Wire interviewed Schworm who denied everything, even as she claimed Smith’s daughter—who passed the rape kit test—had mental stability issues and accused Smith’s wife of confessing that there’s no such thing as CRT but that she still planned to incite parents at board meetings over CRT.

    Ultimately, based upon the LCPS superintendent’s either ignorant or fraudulent denial that sexual assault happened in girls’ bathrooms, the LCPS passed its transgender policies—which might not have happened had Smith been allowed to tell his daughter’s story.

    There’s so much more but what’s clear is that a formerly middle-of-the-road-conservative-ish community of working- and middle-class people is seeing a massive culture shift to the left. Many parents are unhappy and claiming that (a) the shift is hurting their children (and Smith’s daughter and the other girl prove this) and (b) that the board and its allies are lying and defaming people, including students, to advance their goals.

    As Rosak writes, the aftermath is “Two girls, allegedly sexually assaulted in school, four months apart, by the same person. And so far, the only person to be convicted of a crime is the victim’s father.” And the ultimate irony, despite Smith’s daughter being sexually assaulted and later beaten, is that she’s a progressive. What kids learn in school matters.

    We need that last sentence on billboards all over the country.

  38. @ Art Deco – in re the pedophile priests.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10097271/I-look-forward-simpler-life-Member-woke-Loudoun-School-board-RESIGNS.html

    The school board has not yet responded to the demands for Ziegler to resign or for his deputies to resign.

    He assumed the role of superintendent in June this year after informally taking over in January following the resignation of Eric Williams.

    Williams left the area to go and work in Houston, Texas, as tensions in Loudoun County reached a boiling point.

    The liberal school board embraced Ziegler, a former teacher and chaplain who only started working in the county in 2019.

    Williams never released an explanation for his departure.

  39. Complaints against priests were seldom made in real time. Fifteen years after the fact was about normal.

    Which makes the Catholic Church’s pedo priest scandal totally OK. Nothing to see here.
    ____________________________________

    A scathing grand jury report released Tuesday reveals accusations of sexual abuse against 301 priests — 37 from the Allentown Diocese — whose actions went unchecked for decades in dioceses across Pennsylvania.

    Instead of reporting pedophiles, dioceses routinely shuffled them from parish to parish, enabling them to prey upon new victims, the document shows. The statewide grand jury, launched by former Attorney General Kathleen Kane, spent two years on the most exhaustive investigation of the church taken on by a state. It covered allegations in the Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton dioceses, which collectively minister to more than 1.7 million Catholics….

    Shapiro said the abuse was “systematically covered up by church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican.” He said those officials weaponized the faith, using it against victims and to protect the institution at all cost. Victims were reluctant to come forward, some waiting decades before summoning the courage to tell their stories. Because of that, the grand jury recommended an end to the statute of limitations on criminal cases. “We should just get rid of it,” the report said…

    “We believe that the real number — of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward — is in the thousands,” the report noted.

    https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-grand-jury-report-catholic-dioceses-20180612-story.html

  40. Some good points were made by the commenters at Legal Insurrection, but this seems like something that needs to be looked into.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/10/horrified-loudoun-county-parents-tell-school-board-fire-superintendent-immediately/#comment-1216372

    henrybowman in reply to Russ from Winterset. | October 15, 2021 at 2:47 pm
    Let’s pause to take a moment to draw the necessary parallels between this poor, disadvantaged yute (at least that’s where my money is) and Nick Cruz, the Florida school shooter.

    The Florida school system was concerned about their “school-to-prison pipeline” statistics. In order to cook their delinquency numbers, they and the cops entered into a confidential agreement under which they would actually suppress evidence of crimes committed by students, at most gigging the student for a minor administrative infraction. This included failure to make crime reports, deleting CCTV evidence trails, and holding stolen merchandise in police custody indefinitely (couldn’t return it to the owners, or questions would get asked about how it was recovered).

    As a result, boy, those numbers looked good! …(see first link)… while all the while they were teaching young toughs that there were no consequences for crime.

    And then a kid with 39 police interventions on his record (and no real adverse action for any of them because of this “school program”) shot and killed a bunch of people in a spree shooting that would never have happened if the pipeline had carried him to prison where he belonged long before then.

    Hide the student crime to make the school system look better. Sound familiar, Loudoun County?

    And their Neo adds “The biggest unanswered question: did the Loudoun County Schools participant in Obama era PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support and Education.) program, like Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ?”

    Henry was responding to this question from Russ, and it will be important to see how the courts act on the Scott lawsuit, as well as the second one that is certain to follow.

    Russ from Winterset | October 15, 2021 at 11:37 am
    If the parents of the first victim are justified in suing the board (as a group) and all it’s members (individually) into bankruptcy…….then how far are we willing to let the parents of the second victim go in seeking damages.

    Botching a rape and it’s aftermath is bad enough, but when you graduate to releasing a rapist back into another school (where his activities from May were probably not disclosed to the community) with nothing more than an ankle bracelet to prevent him from reoffending? That takes it up a notch or 27.

    Also food for thought (but, remember this is in Virginia near DC) :

    Pasadena Phil | October 15, 2021 at 2:04 pm
    According to FJB and his lackeys, these parents are Trump cult terrorists. With so many Trump cultists revealing who they are, how can anyone argue that Trump lost the election?

    And never forget who is responsible ultimately for the disgraceful condition of most of our schools.

    Steven Brizel | October 15, 2021 at 2:19 pm
    Note the conspicuous and complete absence of any comments by the teachers’ unions which is also heavily invested in grooming and supporting candidates for school boards that will rubber stamp their radical demands

    Bottom line, if the Loudoun School Board really does become the tipping point for a parental cascade preference across party lines:

    stevewhitemd | October 15, 2021 at 2:25 pm
    I am struck by the similarity of this to the Tea Party issue of a decade ago, both in terms of how ordinary people are coming together and by the response of the Democrats/government.

    If this one is put down the way the Tea Party was, I don’t think there will be a third iteration. As John Kennedy* once said, those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

    * who could not survive as a Democrat today.

    Remember that the TEA party movement eventually fizzled out (at least in the attention of the Washington elites and media; IIRC there are still active chapters) because they were stabbed in the back, front, and both sides by the Republican Establishment.

  41. Neo linked to this post by Ace, but I think his indictment of the Washington Post deserves commemoration for it’s sterling example of telling the truth in what they actually say, but lying by omitting important context (something they are always pestering the Right to supply.
    And of course there is the consequent obligatory Cancellation of Conservative Comment by Crowder (in this case).

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/396025.php

    The Washington Post, possibly worried that they had been caught not covering a story of obvious interest to Washington Post readers (more people reading the Post in northestern Virginia than in DC proper), now admits that there were two sexual assaults that took place in Loudoun schools — but refuses to report that the school board tried to cover it up, or that it was a case of a “boy in a skirt” attacking a girl in a restroom.

    Which is not a point made simply to denigrate trans people, but to prove what is obvious, that a woman is an extremely difficult situation when she’s in an isolated area with a biological male — which is why we had sex-segragated spaces from the beginnings of human civilization.

    Not “gender” segregated. Biological sex-segregated.

    But this would add nuance to a public controversy the Sexual Left wants to pretend has no nuance to it at all, so they forget to report that part.

    A teen accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student at a Loudoun County high school in May is also accused in a second sexual assault less than five months later at another county high school, according to the Loudoun County commonwealth’s attorney.


    Just a random boy r4ping a random girl, which was allegedly “mishandled.”

    If you want to know the details of that, why, you must be a Racist and a Domestic Terrorist.

    But would the Washington Post even be allowed to report on the perp, even if they wanted to?

    YouTube, a monopoly video posting site, and a child corporation of Google, a monopoly in the two key businesses of search and ad placement, has given Steven Crowder a “hard strike” — the last warning before a complete ban — for daring to mention the transgender part of the story.

    They’re taking the position that transgenders are never to be accused of sexual crimes, ever.

    Even when the transgender nature of the perp is directly relevant to a major public issue involving schoolchildren’s safety.

    This monopoly has decided you’re simply forbidden to mention the gender expression of any perp who isn’t “cis” gender.

    Straight white males? You can propagandize and propagandize how these little r4pists are constantly attacking young girls.

    But put a skirt on that white male who has a normal heterosexual (he would say “homosexual” or “lesbian”) attraction to girls…? Then his demographic traits are officially forbidden to be spoken.

    So our Tech Overlords have decided that schoolgirls can be freely r4ped due to dangerous and misguided policies favored completely by the Tech Overlords, and you’re simply not permitted to say that one helped cause the other.

    Yes, it’s that simple. The cause of transgenderism will be won by Tech Monopolists by deleting/censoring any evidence that it causes harm.

    And NeverTrump and the Corporate “Cons” will continue babbling about The Conservative Case for a Fascist Outlawing of Any Speech Contradicting the Political Agenda of Our Illegal Leftwing Monopolies.

    Richard Aubrey: “As in Rotherham; if any complaint managed to come to the attention of the authorities, it was dismissed as the Brit version of white trash complaining.”

  42. @ geoffb > “Thread(s) by Luke Rosiak.”

    Excellent – I hadn’t heard the term “Chardonnay Antifa” before, and he had a good take on the repeated cover-ups by the Board.
    His other threads also looked quite interesting.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/user/lukerosiak

    Here’s another story about out-of-control schools, back in April.
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387515807773642756.html

    A MO school district told principals to create two sets of lesson plans: real ones, focused on topics like “privilege,” and fake ones to show parents

    “Prior to the pandemic you didn’t send everything home or have it available… We are going old-school.”

    The assistant superintendent who wrote the memo ordering hiding materials from parents was also an ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.

    Parents voted for someone with not only the conflict of interest of working in schools, but who deemed parents a terrorist-style “cell” to deceive.
    Rampant indoctrination came to light because of coronavirus.

    But there is an interesting resolution here that other school districts could adopt. To restore trust, the district says it will continue to post classroom materials online for parents even after schools are fully open
    Of course, as seen by the original incident, there’s no guarantee this material would be what kids are really hearing.

    But there’s really no reason all schools shouldn’t do this — the technology is already there and parents are used to it.
    The school district didn’t quite apologize, but expressed “regret” for letting down parents, who it says are “allies” in educating “our children.”

    Better than what McAuliffe said, but who wants to bet against them going back to the hide-the-decline mode if parents quit monitoring them again?

    https://www.aei.org/op-eds/democrats-have-declared-war-on-school-board-moms/

    School board moms are furious about pandemic school closures, mask mandates and teachers unions that put the interests of adults over the interests of kids. They are irate that schools are indoctrinating their kids with extremist ideologies — teaching them to see everything through the prism of race and to believe that America is a systemically racist country. They are angry about the elimination of merit-based admissions and gifted-and-talented programs in the name of diversity. They are livid at politicians such as Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who doesn’t believe “parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” and Cabinet officials, including Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, who won’t acknowledge that parents are the “primary stakeholders” in their children’s education. And they are exercising their constitutional right to free speech to express those concerns at school board meetings.

    And what is the Democrats’ response? To treat them as domestic terrorists. Not figuratively; literally.

  43. Luke again, on another school scandal which I think we talked about back in August when the story broke.
    “A single school scandal is a tragedy; a million scandals is a statistic.”

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1430950378858852363.html

    Teachers signed a pledge from a communism-connected group committing that they would teach CRT even if it meant breaking the law.

    Then some desperately tried to hide their beliefs from parents, and dozens of names disappeared from the pledge.
    One is from an uber-conservative town where 9/10 officials are Republican. He claimed he “accidentally” signed the survey because “doesn’t always read carefully.” He actually wrote a whole paragraph agreeing with it.
    “Since I attached my name to it and said I’m going to teach it to your kids, it’s causing me a lot of trouble,” he said. “I just want my name removed.”

    Does that mean he decided not too teach CRT?

    I’m going “to just do what I’ve always been doing, and not call it that,” he said
    Some teachers had a sense of entitlement about their right to push opinions on children while being paid as government employees in a community’s public schools. Monico DaRugna of Gilbert, Arizona, wrote: “It is not up to the Government to run our schools.”

    If it’s not up to the government, and it’s not up to the parents, then who IS running our schools?
    Have all the teachers in America decided that they are the sole arbiters of education now?
    The Teacher Unions seem to think so.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/education/538002-america-is-learning-the-devastating-power-of-teacher-unions

  44. No “Julias” need apply.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/school_parents_will_save_america.html

    I recently saw a yard sign that read “I don’t co-parent with the government”, and perhaps a truer statement was never made by an enraged parent. The actions of school systems around the country to overstep their delegated authority and dabble in indoctrinating the children has been a catalyst in the activated parent movement. Where economic lockdowns and electoral malfeasance have failed to engage much of the public, messing with the kids has succeeded. If we’re to push back against the absurdities of our times and course-correct while we can, it is very likely that enraged parents will be the ones to save us.

  45. Rufus T. Firefly at 5:30 pm:

    Germane, or German?

    D’oh! Yeah, I only realized I wrote that when I was revisiting the thread just now. 😀

  46. A great many schools, including some charters BTW, across the nation engage in this behavior. Unless there is no alternative but to report something, they are happy to sweep it under the rug. My family has been in education in a variety of states for a couple of decades, which by extension includes knowing a great many other people who are, of every stripe, and we have just *begun* to peel back the lid on the particular can of worms we call our educational system.

  47. Duty to Report is practically omnipresent in schools. Hard to imagine how many ignored it in some of the scandals–see Nassar–and there must be at least half a dozen in the LCPS atrocity.

  48. @ Richard > “duty to report” is indeed omnipresent in all organizations working with children. AesopSpouse and I renewed our “Youth Protection Training” with the Cub and Boy Scouts biannually for over 20 years, which was a very good training program on recognizing all kinds of abuse, avoiding compromising situations, pre-empting possible problems, and reporting suspected incidents.

    And then they decided that openly homosexual men could be leaders.
    Our church troops disbanded as soon as possible, and substituted a similar training program for youth leaders.

    We ourselves stuck with the BSA district as advisors until they added “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” to the merit badge list.
    Resigned from everything at that point.

  49. “Duty to Report” should be grouped with “Trust but Verify.” I’d tell my child to record every interaction with school administration and with teachers, perhaps excepting normal classroom activities. If the victim had reported the rape to school officials, absent proof, they’d deny it.

    After all, who you gonna believe? A right-wing little woman or a woman in a power-rainbow T?

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