A Virginia school board infamous for prioritizing their woke agenda over the safety of students is being held accountable again.
On behalf of a group of fed-up parents, America First Legal (AFL) is suing both the Loudoun County School Board and its chair for gagging them from speaking about a potential MS-13 gang member being allowed in their kids' classrooms.
A student at Loudoun County Valley High School was arrested in May of 2023 for carrying around a loaded gun he stole after threatening to murder another student, according to channel ABC 7 News. As it turns out, according to the reports, he’s an illegal alien with ties to MS-13.
But the county sheriff’s office assured ABC 7 the illegal is currently in “alternative placement" to general ed classrooms, despite ABC 7 reporting he's a student at a local Loudoun County high school. A number of concerned parents tried to figure out exactly what that means by asking their school board at a meeting on October 8.
They had no luck.
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Instead of being transparent with its constituents, the board prohibited their questions on the matter, with the chairwoman repeatedly interrupting and silencing parents' questions before ending public comment altogether.
“Where is the protection and the safety for our children who are in school with other children, who have known threats, who have been arrested and who are back in the school?” asked one parent filmed in a video posted to X.
WATCH: Loudoun County parents told the school board they’re concerned about the safety of their kids and other students because Loudoun County Public Schools allowed a student back in school who threatened to kill a fellow student, was arrested for carrying a gun, and has ties to… pic.twitter.com/ZuAcdnDbbw
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) October 10, 2024
“My daughter’s terrified to go to school with him. When are we gonna have that conversation?” she tried to finish before Chairwoman Melinda Mansfield cut her off.
Mansfield charged the mother with announcing private information about the student alien, despite her claims that she had “not given any personally identifying information.”
“Excuse me, just by what you’re saying right now is personally identifiable information,” Mansfield shot back.
“I have two children that have attended schools where this child has gone,” the mother continued, before being interrupted again.
“One more time and we’re gonna have to conclude public comment for the evening,” Mansfield threatened.
She continued to stonewall a few more parents who followed, before doing exactly that. The rest of the board then stormed out of the room.
In a defensive statement, the board tried to justify their censorship of parents as an effort to stop "restore order," and accused the worried attendees of peddling “misinformation” for attempting to “discuss a specific student despite repeated requests from the Board Chair not to do so.”
“LCPS is vigilant and we would not ask parents to send their children to school if we had specific or credible concerns about their safety,” the board insisted.
They had a funny way of proving just how “vigilant” they were in 2021, when the same district allowed a teenage boy in a skirt to molest a female student in a girl’s restroom. Using the same vague update the sheriff gave about this new threat, LCPS reassigned the pervert to another school in their system. A few months later, he sexually assaulted another student.
In response, AFL got the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to investigate the district for sexual assault and harassment.
Their new lawsuit charges the district for “brazen and intentional viewpoint discrimination.”
“While Loudoun County Public Schools may believe that it can deprive First Amendment rights based on its claims of so-called ‘misinformation,’ the Bill of Rights makes clear that in the United States, the government is not the arbiter of truth,” said AFL’s senior advisor Ian Prior in the group’s response.
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