LOUDOUN COUNTY DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. It’s a thing: “Loudoun County Schools Still Pushing Divisive Policies, Fighting Lawsuits.”
The Loudoun County Public Schools system apparently learned exactly nothing from the electoral wave that swept Virginia, in what was viewed by many as a repudiation to the divisive policies and anti-parent sentiment flowing from Loudoun County school board members and schools administrators.
Those same officials are now fighting a lawsuit brought by Loudoun County teachers suing the school board and asking a judge to stop the new school system’s transgender and gender-fluid student rights policy, reported NBC Washington.
Policy 8040, its official name, requires teachers and staff to refer to students by their chosen pronouns and allow students to use the restrooms associated with their preferred gender. . . .
“Policy 8040 is based on ideology and not sound science,” said Kimberly Wright, one of the teachers who joined the lawsuit.
“It threatens the well being of students and undermines school officials and teachers ability to serve in accordance with their beliefs,” Wright said.
Attorneys representing the teachers said in court that Policy 8040 is also too subjective, and terms such as “gender-expansive” are too broad for an effective and clear policy easily followed by teachers, according to WTOP News.
The lawyers contended that there were simply too many pronouns for teachers to learn and that the policy would allow students to change pronouns too frequently, which they said could lead to “mischief.”
Indeed, during the most recent proceeding the presiding judge said that some pronouns on the school’s list were words he “did not recognize.”
Loudoun County schools officials argue the controversial policy creates a safer, more inclusive environment. They also contend the preferred pronoun dictum falls under “curricular speech,” and that personal beliefs should not interfere with the school’s curriculum