The Patriot Post® · Virginia School Leftists Cover Their Tracks

In the next chapter of the Virginia public schools and their horrifying deception and adult-centered ideologies, the Loudoun County School Board has voted not to make the report on the malpractice and cover-up of rape available for the public, and the Virginia Board of Education blocked a highly qualified mother appointee from its ranks.

Virginia is on the front lines in the need for education reform. The state has been overtaken with ideologues who have turned the public schools into students’ personal hells. Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin was voted into his position on the winds of reform, and he has been doing his best along with his team. However, the leftist gauntlet is so embedded that justice and common sense are having a difficult time storming the ivory towers the leftists have built.

First, let’s talk about Loudoun County. Its school board was made infamous after the discovery that it had intentionally covered up the sexual crimes of a gender-fluid student because it involved transgender bathrooms and LGBTQ+ rights. The fact that this school board has any authority anymore after its shameful performance throughout the investigation is beyond comprehension. However, in a 6-3 vote, the school board voted to keep the report findings private.

Those six members who voted to continue to hide the report from the public — five Democrats and one Republican — justified their move by claiming confidentiality breaches. They claim that there are too many identifying factors in the report that could out the students involved in the situation and that some of the interviews and behind-the-scenes communications are protected under attorney-client privilege.

The three who voted to make it public — two Republicans and one Democrat — reasoned that a redacted version of the report would easily answer those concerns. They also cautioned that lack of transparency had gotten them into this situation in the first place, and keeping the report private compounded the issue. Virginia parents have a right to know just how bad the screw-up was and to understand why their children weren’t protected.

That sentiment was made loud and clear by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares when he addressed the grand jury he appointed to conduct the investigation and issue the blocked report. He stated the facts, saying: “It is apparent that the Loudoun County School Board failed to provide proper oversight, accountability, and transparency on the superintendent and their staff precisely at a time when the victims needed them the most. It is our hope that this grand jury report will bring about positive change — not just in Loudoun County schools, but also in every school district in the Commonwealth because the protection of our children should be our first priority.”

One mother had this to say about the lack of transparency yet again demonstrated by the Loudoun County School Board: “I’m very furious because once again people at this county in this school board are protecting adults. … They aren’t protecting children.”

In a similar vein, the Virginia Board of Education blocked a highly qualified appointee of Governor Youngkin — Suparna Dutta, a mother, engineer, teacher, and immigrant — to be a part of the board. She is a lover of the founding documents and believes America is an extraordinary country. Dutta has lived under the oppression of socialism in India and has a better perspective than the average American of the privations that it enforces on its people.

When she voiced her opinions to the board, her initial approval was unanimously blocked. According to Dutta, the reason she was blocked was because her thoughts against socialism had convinced the board members that she was a white supremacist. Dutta said:

So then, that day, [State] Senator Ghazala Hashmi introduced an amendment, I think SJ 276, to remove my name. She first said that I was not fit. And then when that was challenged, she said that I aligned with white supremacist. Basically, she maligned me and slandered me as a white supremacist. Not a single Democrat senator questioned her, including my own senator, Chap Petersen. Nobody questioned her. It was pretty amazing. It just feels — could this really be the country I immigrated to? … Now I understand that it started on the social media and [Hashmi] pedaled these lies on the floor of the Senate.

The Virginia Board of Education probably didn’t need much of a reason to block a Youngkin appointee, but Dutta’s bold defense of the Constitution and America as a country was an automatic “No” for the America-hating leftists who run the state education standards and curricula.

These stories coming out of Virginia are indeed setbacks to parents fighting to take back their rights and protect their children. Both Democrats and Republicans have rallied behind Youngkin’s parental rights and educational integrity platforms. This callous pushback from radicals in power should spur the parents onward to continue fighting harder.