Loudon County school officials look clearly frightened of citizens

 Amber Athey:

Attend a Loudoun County school board meeting in Virginia, and you will find it almost as locked down as the US Capitol post-January 6. Police cars line the streets and dozens of security personnel post up inside the building. I attended the most recent meeting on Tuesday as media and was subject to a thorough bag check and extensive metal scanning. Residents who wish to speak at meetings are not even allowed in the building until they are in the next group of ten scheduled to appear, and they are not allowed to bring in bags or purses.

Chairs for the public are socially distanced, limiting the number of people who can even sit inside. The Loudoun website claims that this is “to ensure physical distancing for those attending the business portion of the School Board meeting, which follows public comment.”

“This will result in limited public seating in the School Board Meeting Room,” Loudoun admits.

Oddly enough, this is the only seating section that is socially distanced in the meeting room. The school board members, the media, and other attendees manage to sit side-by-side. Still, this means nothing for the parents who line up single file outside of the meeting room until it is their turn to speak.
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At Tuesday’s meeting, 120 Loudoun residents signed up to speak in-person. An additional 13 did so virtually. Residents were allowed just one minute of speaking time. Several speakers referenced the fact that most of them had to wait outside in the cold weather — Dominion Energy reported thousands of homes lost power due to heavy winds in the DC area — because of the speaking restrictions and accused the school board of trying to discourage them from showing up to speak.

The vast majority blasted the school board over its alleged cover up of a sexual assault in order to advance a transgender bathroom policy, vaccine mandates for student athletes and the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms. Many parents came armed with signs featuring an email sent by Superintendent Scott Ziegler indicating that he had knowledge of a sexual assault by a gender-fluid student in a girl’s bathroom, despite claiming in a board meeting over the summer that he had no record of assaults on file.

“You’re all busted for lying and orchestrating a cover-up,” one female parent said early on in the public comment portion of the meeting. “You’re digging yourselves deeper and deeper with each day that goes by. Do the taxpayers and families of Loudoun a favor and resign today.”

“I brought this sign back in June,” a woman asserted as she toted a sign that read, “LCPS: Don’t lie to me unless you’re absolutely sure that I will never find the truth.”

“And now the truth is out. Imagine that. You all are such liars.”
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Another mom pointed out the irony that the school board has locked down their meetings out of concerns for “safety” while failing to protect young girls at their schools from assaults.

“You have all become obsessed with your own safety over the past few months, doing everything to protect yourselves from ‘domestic terrorists,’ which normal people refer to as ‘moms.’ A $3 million security budget, TSA-style pat-downs just to enter this room — all of this to ‘protect’ you adults from the people you’re supposed to serve,” she said.
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There is more.

It seems pretty clear they lied about the rape of a young girl because they did not want to interfere with their policy to allow trans students to pick their restroom.  They compounded that lie by treating the girl's father as a criminal for getting upset about the rape of his daughter and calling him and his daughter a liar.  These people seem more committed to the evils of liberalism than the safety of the students.