On Monday, Scott and Jessica Smith will watch the sentencing of a male student who raped their daughter in a high-school girls’ bathroom, then sexually assaulted another victim at another school. I can’t help but wonder if the victims’ families will be vindicated and our county kept safe from not just predators but a prosecutor and school system that won’t put protecting our children before political allies and ideology.
On June 22, I attended a meeting of our embattled Loudoun County School Board, which had been in the news for months after the revelation that six members, along with Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj, were in a private Facebook group in which activists plotted against parents — including me.
What I witnessed is a cautionary tale. At the heart of this struggle is a “good old boy” network of a new kind with an illiberal prosecutor working with like-minded educrats to silence and punish parents. Biberaj must recuse herself or be disqualified from some pending cases if public trust is ever to be restored in Loudoun County, a symbol of parental challenges nationwide.
I was there to oppose critical race theory, a divisive race-obsessed ideology woven into the fabric of almost every aspect of our children’s school day. I also wanted to hear what safety measures would accompany Policy 8040, a new rule allowing students to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.
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