A worried father leaves podium after confronting the Loudoun County School Board, October 9, 2024. (Credit: video clipping)
The Loudoun County School Board is in the news again because the members stormed out of a meeting after parents confronted them over the enrollment of a student who belongs to the MS-13 gang.
Blue Ridge Middle School suspended the illegal alien student “in May 2023 for bringing a firearm to school and threatening students.”
The student currently attends Loudoun Valley High School. The sheriff’s office claimed it took the May 2023 incident seriously but said, “The situation is complex.”
A worried father confronted the Loudoun County School Board about the issue, but the elected officials refused to address the concerns and stormed out of the room. One school board member shut him down within seconds of him giving a public comment, stifling the father’s allotted time behind the podium.
“Recently, the local media covered a story where a known gang member with a criminal record was suspended from LCPS and was allowed back in the schools,” the dad said before he was interrupted by the board. He was given two warnings to leave the podium, but the dad fired back: “I’m not stopping!”
The dad wouldn’t stop. He wanted the board to explain why the school enrolled the student, “citing safety concerns.”
Then, the school board cut off public comments, causing more outrage:
“There needs to be a public vote to end public comment!” a mother of a student shouted out, who was presumably upset by the announcement. “Make a vote. Go ahead and vote on it. Make a decision to end public comment, and all of you raise your hands and tell every single person that’s sitting in this room that you want to violate their First Amendment and stop your constituents from speaking.”
A school board member told the mother, “You are out of order!” The board then decided to officially end public comment without a vote and stormed out of the room, leaving the parents left without answers.
The parents mentioned the student last month.
The board refused to answer questions from parents and reporters. From September 25:
On Monday, at a Loudoun County school board meeting, all seven board members refused to answer questions about the migrant student. A reporter with the network was met with deafening silence after asking the board, “Are you comfortable with a student attending Loudoun Valley High School this year who previously threatened to kill a fellow student and was arrested for carrying a gun” and “What are you doing as a school board member to keep students safe from violence, gun violence, and gang activity at Loudoun Valley High School and other schools?”
BREAKING: @LCPSOfficial school board ended public comment and fled the room after parents blasted them over allowing an MS-13 gang member to attend school after he was arrested as a m*rder suspect.
The gang member, who entered our country illegally under Biden-Harris, also… pic.twitter.com/TgZ7kB5IW6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 9, 2024