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As “diversity, equity, and inclusion” plans are dying in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that racial preferences schemes in college and university admissions are unconstitutional, Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia may want to rethink its “Action Plan to Combat Systemic Racism.”
A group of concerned parents have sued the Loudoun County school board over this plan. They contend that the board has denied students’ First Amendment’ free speech protection and equal treatment.
Under this plan, students are to report other students to school officials for speech that goes against leftist ideology. According to the Republican Standard, students can report what other students say after school and even at home. The old Communist informing-on-neighbors and re-education-camp indoctrination is alive and well in our nation’s government schools.
From the Republican Standard:
The plan created what was called a “Student Equity Ambassador” scheme, in which students were urged to monitor the speech of their fellow students and report to school officials any speech or action that deviated from radical leftist teachings on race, gender and sexual orientation.
Students were urged to report speech of other children to “ambassadors,” even if it occurred after school or off-campus. Originally, white students were not eligible to be named “ambassadors.”
Liberty Justice Center represents the parents.
The school board even had the temerity to limit the ambassador program to “students of color” or their “allies.” A government school did this.
Why does the Action Plan to Combat Systemic Racism still exist? This is the same Loudoun County that botched the investigation of sexual assaults. A girl accused a boy wearing a skirt of raping her in the girls’ restroom. The school expelled him, but the district sent him to a different school, where he assaulted another girl.
A grand jury found that administrators at Loudoun County Public Schools badly mishandled the sexual assaults “because of incompetence and a lack of interest in the events.” The jury said that school administrators looked out for themselves at the expense of what was best for the school district.
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