Why is it always the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia? Why!?
On January 13, a Loudoun County employee allegedly struck and killed a student with a maintenance vehicle. (WJLA reported that the student was 20 years old. Um, what!?)
Hours later, the school held a meeting about school board safety behind closed doors, mainly on “terrorist” training.
Who were the terrorists? Parents:
According to multiple sources who were in the room but requested we not identify them, the terrorism training involved dozens of actors, brought in by the school board, to act as Loudoun County parents. Those pretend “parents” sat in the gallery in the school board meeting room as actual families normally would.In this training, one of the parents has a gun. The actors were screaming and yelling and running around the room, witnesses said. School board members and staff were instructed to “run, hide, and fight,” much the same as training provided to students in the event of an active shooter scenario.Again, according to 7News sources, [new School Board Chair April] Chandler referred to parents as “disrupters” and “agitators” as she recalled school board meetings last year which many parents attended to speak up in support of three boys who were being investigated by the district in a case centered around policy allowing students to use the bathroom and locker room that matches their chosen gender identity, rather than their biological sex.
WJLA’s Nick Minock said one of the names was Mr. Smith.
Oh, boy.
Police arrested Scott Smith in June 2021 after a school board meeting, after he accused the board of covering up his daughter’s sexual assault by a male in the female bathroom.
Smith was convicted of disorderly conduct.
But it’s not just about the school board calling parents terrorists. Suzanne Sutterfield cannot believe that the school board appears more concerned about its safety than student safety:
“It’s appalling and it’s insulting,” Sutterfield said. “And what they want, I believe, is to again shift focus away from the matters at hand, like the horrible death of the student that was recently killed and it happened to be from an LCPS vehicle. It’s just so tragic.”Sutterfield believes the school board should have canceled the training and instead implemented protocols to improve student safety.“I think that they definitely should have put that at the forefront,” said Sutterfield. “I mean, my goodness. I mean, it couldn’t even be more obvious. And I think this other training shouldn’t have been happening at all.”
The school board shrugged off criticism for holding the training right after the car accident, telling The Washington Examiner that the timing “was purely coincidental, as it was planned for four days earlier.”
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