This week, Fairfax County School Board members voted to restrict students’ and teachers’ free speech with a new
bias incident reporting system
in changes to the district’s code of conduct. Despite multiple
legal challenges
across the nation to this Orwellian tattle system, including one in the neighboring
Loudoun County Public Schools
, school board members overwhelmingly voted in favor of it. Here again, they demonstrate little regard for the Constitution or the district’s mounting legal fees, which totaled about $17 million from 2020 to 2022.
As a parent and taxpayer contributing to the district’s annual $3.5 billion budget, one of the largest in the nation, I hereby am officially filing a public report of the Fairfax County School Board’s biases. It is only fair that school board members are under the same level of scrutiny as our teachers and students.
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First, Fairfax County’s current school board members harbor biases against low-income public school students. Siding with teachers union boss Randi Weingarten and the unions in general, school board members closed our public schools for nearly 1 1/2 years during the pandemic. Meanwhile, school board members such as Hunter Mill’s Melanie Meren sent her children to a private educational pod, a luxurious option only available to families with resources. Not surprisingly, low-income students were more
affected
by remote learning. Every time current school board members voted against opening the county’s schools, they effectively voted against the academic development of lower-income students.
Next, Fairfax County’s school board has made it so that overt racism is acceptable, particularly against Asians. Biases against Asian American students are pervasive districtwide. For example, current school board members changed the admissions policy to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology to purposefully reduce the number of Asian students at the school. Their racism has achieved its intended goal. With the complete destruction of merit, admissions of Asian American students to the magnet school have
decreased
by nearly 20% from 2020 to 2021. In order to accommodate the new pool of lesser-qualified students, the school is now forced to offer a
remedial math
course.
But don’t just take it from me. In February 2022, federal Judge Claude Hilton confirmed what most of us already knew and
ruled
that Thomas Jefferson’s admissions policies racially discriminated against Asians. In response, school board members threw more taxpayer dollars for an appeal to their friends at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, the same law firm that
objected to the racial integration
of America’s public schools in Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court of the United States is now the bastion of hope to counteract racism in public schools, with Hunton’s firm once again on the wrong side of history.
The imposed racial politics in Fairfax County’s public schools are strange and dangerous, highlighting board members’ biases against students of all races. These so-called progressives are actually regressive, moving far from Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream and intentionally segregating our children on the basis of race. No more are our innocent children taught to judge people on the content of their character. Instead, profiteers such as Ibram X. Kendi, whom the school board paid
$20,000
for a one-hour Zoom call, influence school board members to implement strategies that encourage current racism to make up for past discrimination. Under this instruction, our children are told that white people are oppressors and black and brown people are victims.
These ironically-named “anti-racist” lessons are usually administered under the guise of
social-emotional learning
, also known as equity lessons. Curricula materials for these lessons, such as this
video
on microaggressions displayed on Jan. 30, are
difficult to attain
. There is not an opt-out option for parents, despite the divisive content. In these mandatory lessons, students are indoctrinated about the primacy of race and its supposed deterministic consequences.
In addition to school board members’ race and class biases, they also have clear biases against biological females. In the district’s schools, bathroom and locker room use is based on “gender identity” rather than sex. Under the guise of transgender rights, bathrooms and locker rooms are now shared-sex spaces, making many female students hesitant to use school facilities due to safety concerns.
Fairfax County’s school board members clearly hold many biases. And they most certainly should not be implementing an illegal reporting system to control the speech of our children and their teachers.
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Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a mother in Fairfax County, Virginia, an author, and a member of the Independent Women’s Network.
