Nathalie Baptiste is based in Washington, DC and was previously a reporter and columnist at Mother Jones.
“Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!” hundreds of mostly white parents jeered at the Loudoun County Public School board members. The crowd waved signs demanding that educators stop teaching racism, and that they should instruct students that there are only two genders.
For the people who live in the D.C. region, Loudoun is known as where wealthy people live, or where families move so their children can receive a top-notch education.It’s also rapidly growing, thanks to an influx of immigrants. The county was heavily Republican until 2008, when Barack Obama won it — as has every Democratic presidential candidate since.
She said that Sterling schools are at the bottom for reading and math and that the board had ignored more than 100 Title IX complaints, the federal clause that bans gender discrimination. Her post included dog whistles about transgender students and books, with Riccardi saying that in schools are materials that are “not even suitable for public TV or radio,” “multigender bathroom experiments coming” and “boys in girls sports, bathrooms, locker rooms.
But there’s ample evidence that the real problem isn’t inappropriate books or unqualified teachers. In June 2023, LCPS released a report that showed an alarming increase of racial incidents in its school system.
“We are still one of the very best divisions in the state,” he said. “But there is still a lot of work left to do, especially coming out of COVID.” “We were looking for great public schools and diversity,” she said. She has two adult children who graduated from Loudoun County schools and another currently in middle school.She sees the people calling for book bans and smearing teachers as a loud, but small, minority. “I’ve heard some of these similar talking points in other areas of the country. But I don’t think it’s not the majority of our families who think that way.
“During the pandemic is when a lot of people woke up to the fact that there’s nine people here that make pretty much all the education decisions,” Shernoff said. “The problems at Loudoun County Public Schools and on the school board go well beyond one school board member,” Ian Prior, the executive director of Fight For Schools,at the time. “We…will keep fighting until we have a school board of common sense, non-partisan members and a superintendent who is accountable to parents and tells the truth.”The following November, Gov. Youngkin won his election largely on a platform of “parental rights.
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