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Loudoun County School Board members appear to hate free speech
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ^ | 3/23/2024 | Stephanie Lundquist-Arora

Posted on 03/24/2024 7:52:25 PM PDT by bitt

The Loudoun County School Board has a concerning parallel to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984. After voting to turn off the cameras during public comment this week, the district’s school board members are now considering additional measures to further limit and silence dissent during their meetings.

The majority of the school board members would like to teach their beliefs, such as the acceptability of allowing males to use females’ school bathrooms and locker rooms, and suppress parents’ ability to say otherwise. On Thursday, Democratic-endorsed school board member April Chandler outlined more ways they might restrict parental input. Claiming that these ideas have precedent in Virginia, she raised the following for the board’s consideration: allowing only 20 minutes for public comment, requiring that members of the public speak only once on a topic, cutting the microphone if speakers become too emotional, requesting that speakers first take their problems to the superintendent before bringing them to the board, and requiring speakers to submit their comments to the chairwoman, who would then determine if the comments were fit to be made public.

Chandler seems to have much in common with dictators at all levels of government who have preceded her. She clearly does not understand the meaning of the word transparency and has conveniently forgotten that she works for her constituents.

Fellow Democratic-endorsed school board member Anne Donohue supported Chandler’s discussion of additional restrictions on parents’ free speech.

“I do fear that it can at times distract from or derail our work as we try to get through all of our agenda items in a board meeting,” Donohue said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: loudouncounty; schoolboard

1 posted on 03/24/2024 7:52:25 PM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 03/24/2024 7:52:40 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112150736773074094

If the wonderful parents of students in the Loudoun County School System would want to gather along the great Potomac River, at Trump National Golf Club, under the beautifully flying American Flag, for a gathering, or a meeting, there can be no more magnificent or significant place to do so, AS MY GUEST! Just let my Club Manager, Trent, know when. Have fun. SAVE THE STUDENTS!!!


3 posted on 03/24/2024 7:53:06 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

April invests her time in the causes she believes in, and over the past decade she has volunteered for various local and national civic organizations, including LINK Against Hunger, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Together We Will Loudoun and other groups.

4 posted on 03/24/2024 7:58:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: bitt
***Loudoun County School Board members appear to hate free speech***

...and water is wet, the sun gives light and bears (you know) in the woods.

This is the school board that had a father arrested for complaining that the school allowed his daughter to be raped and then covered it up!

5 posted on 03/24/2024 8:02:58 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: bitt

Hmmm…..content based discrimination. I believe this is settled law.


6 posted on 03/24/2024 8:12:04 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: bitt

So please explain to me HOW these ignorant females advanced to such a position? Their ignorance is only surpassed by their arrogance....broads...they obviously have no idea how these actions degrade outlook overall towards females ascending to any authority and the fact that the world gets smaller everyday.


7 posted on 03/24/2024 8:16:39 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Islam has NO place in a Christian society.)
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To: bitt

Leftist Karens have infiltrated your local government.


8 posted on 03/24/2024 8:27:53 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: bitt

Inside every Liberal woman is a fascist screaming to be free.


9 posted on 03/24/2024 8:57:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████s████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: bitt

Rubber hose

or

tar & feathers.

Choose.


10 posted on 03/24/2024 9:30:36 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Inside every Liberal woman is a fascist screaming to be free.

I wonder what would the Founding Fathers say about Women’s Suffrage if they could see what's happening in our country today?

11 posted on 03/24/2024 9:38:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: mythenjoseph

“...they have no idea...” My, you are naive, aren’t you.


12 posted on 03/25/2024 2:01:54 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“I wonder what would the Founding Fathers say about Women’s Suffrage if they could see what’s happening in our country today?”

They would say “We thought this through and set it up right the first time. We told you so. You all screwed it up!”

The 19th Amendment was an enormous mistake.


13 posted on 03/25/2024 3:34:21 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: bitt
“I do fear that it can at times distract from or derail our work as we try to get through all of our agenda items in a board meeting,” Donohue said

Golly!

Can't have THAT now can we!

14 posted on 03/25/2024 4:00:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bitt

Who put the board in place?


15 posted on 03/25/2024 4:29:53 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: mythenjoseph

I’ve heard a million times that if women ran the world there’d be no war.

It’s clear the opposite is true.


16 posted on 03/25/2024 5:00:05 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“ Inside every Liberal woman is a fascist screaming to be free.”

I hope Americans will come to recognize that fact sooner, rather than later.


17 posted on 03/25/2024 5:45:34 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: bitt

§ 2.2-3707. Meetings to be public; notice of meetings; recordings; minutes.

H. Any person may photograph, film, record, or otherwise reproduce any portion of a meeting required to be open.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title2.2/chapter37/section2.2-3707/


Sue the fascists.


18 posted on 03/25/2024 8:29:31 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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