Dozens of Loudoun County Students Attempt to Serve School Board Affidavits Over Mask Mandate, CRT

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va.—Dozens of suspended college students in Loudoun County tried to serve the college board members a stack of notarized affidavits accusing the board of maladministration at a college board assembly on Feb. 8.

School board chair Jeff Morse requested the scholars to give the paperwork to the employees as a substitute of receiving the affidavits. Superintendent Scott Zieger left the board room afterward and didn’t return till the superintendent’s report session after public remark.

An hour later at about 9 p.m., Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Chief Operations Officer Kevin Lewis accepted the paperwork with out signing to acknowledge receipt. Wayde Byard, the LCPS spokesperson, informed The Epoch Times, “The school board always welcomes written public input.” He added that LCPS would look at the papers.

The affidavits signed by Virginia residents appearing “sui juris”—“in their own rights”—by the U.S. Constitution ask the board to cease all essential race principle (CRT) associated packages, to finish “unconstitutional COVID-19 mandates,” and to present full disclosure of sexual abuses within the college system.

CRT is a quasi-Marxist analytical framework that views America as systemically racist. LCPS has repeatedly stated that CRT isn’t taught in its lecture rooms and that it presents a normal curriculum designated by the Virginia Department of Education. However, mother and father say that CRT concepts are embedded within the college insurance policies, lecturers’ coaching, and social emotional studying packages.

Loudoun County Public Schools college students suspended for refusing to put on a masks to college current notarized affidavits—one field with 65 copies for every recipient—to the college board members at a board assembly in Ashburn, Va., on Feb. 8, 2022. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times)

Rene Camp, one of the organizers of the trouble, informed The Epoch Times that the college board has ignored mother and father’ calls for thus far. Therefore, this new motion goals at forcing a response.

The board will both reply with backup paperwork or ignore them, equal to admitting wrongdoing accused within the affidavits, in accordance to Camp. Each participant signed 9 copies of the paper, one copy for superintendent Scott Ziegler and eight copies for all college board members apart from John Beatty, the one college board member who voted towards conserving the masks mandate earlier than Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s mask-optional govt order took impact on Jan. 24.

Megan Rafalski, chief of the schooling process power on behalf of numerous grassroots mother or father organizations in Loudoun County, informed The Epoch Times that they deliberate for 20 mother and father becoming a member of the trouble, however the closing depend reached 65.

When college students handed the papers over to Lewis, Rafalski informed him that the mother and father paid almost $1,000 for the 585 copies of affidavits.

On Sunday, when mother and father gathered to put together the affidavits, the temper was decided but heavyhearted. On the earlier Friday, the Arlington Circuit Court dominated a brief injunction for the seven college boards to hold their masks mandate till a closing ruling. Loudoun isn’t among the many seven college boards that sued Gov. Youngkin over his mask-optional govt order signed on Jan. 15.

Loads has occurred between then and now. On Monday, the Supreme Court of Virginia dismissed a lawsuit by Chesapeake mother and father who requested the court docket to halt Youngkin’s mask-optional govt order and restore the masks mandate of their college district. Then on Tuesday, the Democrat-controlled state Senate handed a invoice to finish masks mandates in Virginia public faculties. The invoice is predicted to cross the Republican-majority state House and shortly arrive at Youngkin’s desk.

(L–R) Brian, Annabelle, Madeline, and Muriel Groce in Hamilton, Va., on Feb. 6, 2022. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times)

Muriel Groce, who has two ladies at the moment suspended from Blue Ridge Middle School, arrived early at what could be her first-ever college board assembly. “This is a primary example of how keeping the faith for the long battle just to be victorious and don’t give up hope,” Muriel informed The Epoch Times about her emotions after studying of the passing of the state Senate invoice.

“I couldn’t be happier about the news about the bill passing in the Senate. And I hope everything will follow through just in line. And we’re just so excited,” she added. “We’ve just had a rough, rough go of it, my kids especially. They have been suspended. Emotionally, the toll is very great.”

Muriel’s 11-year-old daughter Madeline informed The Epoch Times, “I just want to go back [to school] without a mask.”

Loudoun County moms maintain up indicators towards masks mandates earlier than public remark on the Loudoun County School Board assembly in Ashburn, Va., on Feb. 8, 2022. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times)

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Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times masking schooling and China-related points. Send ideas to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.