While schools are on the hot seat across the United States due to coronavirus lockdowns and critical race theory (CRT) leaks, Philadelphia City School District is deciding whether it will introduce what one board member calls “a gag order,” effectively forbidding its 20,000 employees from speaking to the media without district approval. The district’s proposed policy was discussed in a…
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Many Democrats are responding to their electoral drubbing in Virginia with total denial. Concerns over education radicalism, especially critical race theory, were essential to Republican victories, but the cultural leftists who steer the Democratic Party these days keep insisting this is a fake controversy created by right-wing activists. Either they are idiots, or they think we are. Probably both. That…
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Students at multiple schools in Loudoun County, Virginia staged a walkout on Tuesday in protest of the district’s cover-up of a sexual assault case. “Loudoun County protects rapists,” some students at Broad Run High chanted in front of the school. Listen to Broad Run High students start chanting “Loudon County protects rapists” & shouting other messages. Clarification: The suspect in…
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This article displays blurred explicit pictures and descriptions of sexual activity from books offered to children in public schools. Over the weekend, former President Barack Obama dismissed conservative media and Virginia parents as peddling “fake outrage” over recent scandals involving the state’s public schools. “We don’t have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage,…
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A recently uncovered May 28 email confirms the superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, Scott Ziegler, knew about sexual assault incidents at Stone Bridge High School despite saying the opposite in a later school board meeting, reports local outlet WTOP. Virginia dad Scott Smith was notified on May 28 that his 15-year-old daughter had been allegedly assaulted in a girls’…
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In 2014, Rolling Stone published a story about a female student named “Jackie” who claimed she was raped at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia. “The 9,000-word story prompted a wave of outrage and revulsion,” said the Washington Post. The fraternity in question was graffitied within hours, protesters descended upon the campus in Charlottesville, Va., the university president…
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Newly unearthed documents reveal that during his tenure as the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe’s Education Department was pushing public schools to teach critical race theory (CRT). According to a 2015 training program issued by the Virginia Department of Education, state public schools were encouraged to “embrace critical race theory” and “engage in race-conscious teaching and learning” as part of…
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Children as young as 4 years old in Scotland will now be permitted to identify as the opposite sex and alter their names, according to new guidance issued by the country’s government. “The aim of this Government’s education policy is to achieve excellence and equity for all our young people in a high-performing education system,” the foreword of the 70-page…
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As violent crime shreds our nation’s capital, next-door neighbor Northern Virginia is incubating its own anti-law-and-order haven, thanks to three district attorneys more interested in dramatic Democrat talking points than prosecuting criminals. A new organization is rising up to boot them out of office. Virginians for Safe Communities, a 501(c)4 organization that launched Monday morning and aims at advocating for…
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Homeschooling families like mine aren’t as rare as we were just a few pandemic-free years ago. A recent Associated Press article by David Crary reported that according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of homeschooling families more than doubled between March and September of 2020. Apparently, the vagaries of lockdown fever and the failures of “remote learning” have inspired…
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Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools has emerged as a national representation of the critical race theory (CRT) clash between parents and administrators. A local school board recall effort is gaining traction. But aside from figures like Ian Prior at Fight for Schools or thinkers at The Heritage Foundation that sponsor events, what do normal Loudouners think? I ventured out to…
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Jessica Mendez, an anti-critical race theory activist in Loudoun County, Virginia, alleged she has been targeted by left-wing activists who smeared her as an “active racist” in a flyer that was sent to her employer last month. The flyer, which was obtained by the Daily Caller, shows pictures of Mendez at several anti-critical race theory protests where parents gathered to…
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When concerned taxpayer Jon Tigges showed up to the Loudoun County School Board meeting to express his concerns with the “moral decay” he saw spreading throughout the district, the last thing he expected was to end up in the back of a “paddy wagon” with a court date for a trespassing charge. Tigges is one of the more than 250…
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A prominent education activist residing in northern Virginia is blocked on Twitter by a public official, The Federalist has learned, and it may have First Amendment implications based on legal precedent. Ian Prior, a former senior official in the Trump administration and executive director of Fight for Schools, is Twitter blocked by Lottie Spurlock, director of equity at Loudoun County…
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LEESBURG, Va. — There is a war in Loudoun County, Virginia, but no troops are on the ground. Instead, parents and teachers are fighting for the next generation amid a critical race theory clash that has boiled over into a national controversy. Like-minded community members, with planning help from The Heritage Foundation and Parents Against Critical Race Theory, came together…
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Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in Loudoun County, Virginia, spoke strongly against a new transgender policy at a recent public school board meeting. He was immediately placed on leave from his job. A Virginia court ruled on Tuesday that the county school system must halt its retaliation and reinstate Cross. Cross was responding to proposed Policy…
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In 2021, not a week goes by without Loudoun County, Virginia making the news as a result of its push to implement critical race theory in its schools. Parents are frustrated and looking for answers, while Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) remains largely silent as this affluent county outside of Washington, D.C. has become ground zero in the fight against…
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Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) is named for the Founding Father who penned the words “all men are created equal.” It is the crown jewel of the Fairfax County school system and serves as the STEM magnet school for the entire Northern Virginia region. U.S. News and World Report ranked it the best high school…
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