The Loudoun County School Board meeting abruptly entered a recess Tuesday night after parent activists attempted to serve the board with an affidavit over the district’s COVID-19 mandates.
Board Chairman Jeff Morse announced that the meeting would enter a recess shortly after Rene Camp announced the affidavit during the meeting’s public comment period and several students attempted to approach the board to deliver the papers.
Morse reacted harshly to Camp’s announcement by saying, “I am not being served,” before announcing the recess.
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“We are … here today to serve you an affidavit, [to] which you must respond, showing us where in the Constitution you have been given the legal authority to trample on people’s rights,” Camp said as she announced the affidavit.
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The meeting erupted in applause, drawing the ire of Morse, who loudly demanded that the crowded room quiet down.
Camp said the affidavit was a cease-and-desist order from parents and students demanding an end to the district’s mask and other COVID-19 mandates, the teaching of critical race theory, and several other grievances pertaining to gay and transgender ideology.
It was not clear if the cease-and-desist affidavit imposed any legal obligations on the board. Video of the meeting showed students carrying large stacks of papers to the front of the meeting hall.
Covering meeting of the Loudoun County SB. One of the speakers just attempted to serve an affidavit to the board trying to get them to cease and desist enforcement of district mask mandate. The district is one of 7 challenging Gov Youngkin’s executive order making masks optional. pic.twitter.com/elfvTLSw5Y
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The Northern Virginia county school board has been a hot spot of controversy for months over its handling of COVID-19 mandates, the inclusion of critical race theory in its curriculum, and a sexual assault that occurred in the women’s bathroom at a district high school.
