There is growing concern from parents in Virginia’s Loudoun County School District that the board of education is pushing to implement far-left policies on their children.
On Tuesday, two people were arrested after the school board shut down its public comment amid rising tensions.
Fox News radio reporter Eben Brown joined 930 WFMD’s Morning News Express with Bob Miller and Ryan Hedrick Thursday to discuss the issue. Fox News has maintained a steady presence in the Washington D.C. suburb district as officials push for Critical Race Theory and transgender bathroom policies.
Hedrick suggested that the parents and the school board may be fighting a culture war.
“It certainly seems that way,” Brown said. “You have a significant number of parents whose kids attend school in Loudoun County, Virginia who have been agitated, with reason, over the whole past year and a half because they have been arguing for schools to reopen. “I think the frustrations of that on top of the fact that Loudoun County school officials may or may not be implementing Critical Race Theory may have sent things over the top.”
The Loudoun County School District is also attempting to draft a revised policy that would require teachers to address transgender students by their names and pronouns, according to The Washington Post.
“A number of parents showed up the other night expecting to partake in a public comment section,” Brown said. “Out of the 250 that showed up they only allowed 50 or so to speak and they didn’t even get through that list.”
Brown said that led to anger and when an impassioned parent began speaking the police tried dragging him out and got into a scuffle with him.
WFMD, which is located just 35 miles away from the district and has seen an increase in listeners who are concerned about the state of public school systems in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
