The plot thickens.
Loudoun County is an affluent suburb of Washington DC:
Loudoun County is part of the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2018, Loudoun County had a median household income of $136,268. Since 2008, the county has been ranked first in the U.S. in median household income among jurisdictions with a population of 65,000 or more.
One would think they’d have a great school system. And for all I know, it’s great in many ways (although at this point I tend to doubt it) – but certainly not in the realm of responsiveness to sexual assaults that might occur in its schools. We now learn that Loudoun school system has apparently been failing to report incidences of sexual assault in its schools for years, despite a state law that mandates such reporting:
Well, I suppose that’s one way to get a clean record.
The only reason we know any of this, even now, is the result of one of those ironic situations in which a series of events designed to protect these people has backfired, at least in the sense of revealing what this NY Post article calls “the rot.”
And the rot is not confined to the Loudon school system, either. As we already know, the Biden administration DOJ decided it would be a mighty fine idea to threaten to classify as “domestic terrorists” parents who object too strenuously to CRT in public schools, or to allowing trans students in the bathrooms of their choice. There already are rules on the books if someone actually commits a crime, but the idea was that the DOJ would cite some sort of increased amount of danger to school board members at the hands of these parents, and they used a Loudoun man named Scott Smith (although they didn’t name him) to this end:
Smith, 48, became the poster boy for the new “domestic terrorism” the Biden administration has concocted to destroy anyone who gets in the way of its agenda.
The left-wing activist group National School Boards Association wrote a letter to President Biden citing Smith’s case, without naming him, and urged the administration to use the Patriot Act to crack down on parents who demand a say in their children’s schools. It didn’t seem to occur to Biden that targeting disgruntled parents with legislation designed for foreign suicide bombers might be over the top.
What had Smith done? The way we first heard the story, he spoke out at a school board meeting against school policy on these issues, and started some sort of scuffle which culminated in him being tackled by police and dragged off (in fairly humiliating fashion, in which his pants somehow came down) and arrested:
The Soros-funded left-wing prosecutor, Buta Biberaj, reportedly a decarceration proponent, tried to get Smith jailed for his disruptive behavior.
You can read a fuller account of these events in the NY Post article.
That’s all we learned until recently, when a Daily Wire reporter decided to get Smiths’s side of the story – and what a story it was. Astoundingly, the little detail of what Smith had been trying to say at the meeting had been left out of reports, and it was no general expression of concern about school policies. It was something very specific, an allegation that his 9th grade daughter had been raped and sodomized in the school bathroom by a biologically male student who gained access by wearing a skirt, claiming to be trans. And then a leftist activist said his daughter was lying, which is what sparked the fight (I have yet to learn if it was just an angry exchange of words or if more was involved, but the Post story indicates it was just words).
Here’s one of the many things that happened at that meeting:
There was no compassion, either, from superintendent Scott Ziegler, who claimed bafflingly at the meeting that there had been no assault in a school restroom anywhere in Loudoun County and airily dismissed parents’ concerns about the risks of transgender bathrooms. Then he gave a little woke homily to show those powerless parents in the room who really was in charge.
“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,” he said.
Whether the student doing the assaulting was actually trans or merely claiming to be is not the issue, and I don’t know which is the case because we’re not allowed to know much if anything about that student, who is protected by the juvenile justice system.
So, to recap:
The DOJ has decided to intimidate parents objecting to leftist policies in schools by threatening to label them domestic terrorists and treat them as such. Smith was used as an example of this. But in fact, he turns out to be something quite different and far more sympathetic, and in the course of learning about his case we’ve also learned to what extent some school districts (and now the DOJ) will go to demonize the right, protect themselves, protect student predators, and protect the left.
Good to know.
Oh, and one more thing: the MSM is barely reporting these new developments. The MSM is an important part of the coverup:
Mainstream broadcast networks failed to cover a Tuesday night report that alleged a Virginia school board covered up a rape allegation against a boy who wore a skirt in the girls’ bathroom, according to a media analysis.
The Loudoun County School Board kept the rape allegations quiet as it successfully pushed to adopt a policy that allows students to choose which bathroom to use based on their preferred gender, according to the Daily Wire. The alleged rapist was reportedly transferred to another school where he was later charged with sexual battery and abduction of another student. Neither ABC, CBS, nor NBC dedicated primetime coverage to the report, according to the Media Research Center….
“How can one call itself a news organization when it blacks out coverage of a story like this, which has such broad impact on the safety of our children and education?” Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, tweeted.
The more local rag the WaPo apparently has published some coverage, although limited in scope to the fact that there were two assaults in the Loudoun schools.
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.
[ADDENDUM: A summary here, plus the fact that parents are petitioning to get the school superintendent fired.]
