Virginia school board silenced parents concerned with MS-13-affiliated student in school, lawsuit claims

A radical of parents is suing the Loudoun County School Board successful northern Virginia, claiming they were silenced by the committee erstwhile attempting to rise concerns astir a pupil who was allowed to instrumentality to schoolhouse contempt alleged ties to the notorious MS-13 gang.

The radical of parents astatine the halfway of the suit claims that they were silenced by the committee during a nationalist gathering erstwhile trying to rise concerns astir reports that a pupil who is allegedly in the state illegally and affiliated with MS-13 was allowed to instrumentality to schoolhouse contempt being arrested for carrying a weapon and threatening to sprout different student.

"Time and clip again, the Loudoun County School Board has demonstrated done its actions an unwillingness to respect those rights exercised by assemblage members and parents commenting acrophobic with the actions of their nationalist schools. This latest law usurpation is adjacent much pronounced, fixed that the taxable was related to the information of students," America First Legal Senior Advisor Ian Prior, whose enactment is representing the parents, said successful a statement.

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Students, parents and others clasp signs extracurricular the Loudoun County School Board gathering connected Oct. 26, 2021 successful Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The parents, who are suing successful the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, assertion that their First Amendment rights were violated during an Oct. 8 nationalist schoolhouse committee meeting, wherever immoderate of them attempted to rise concerns to the committee astir their determination to reinstate the student lone for the committee to chopped disconnected their microphones and extremity the nationalist remark period.

In a property merchandise aft the incident, the committee claimed that the parents violated the rules of the nationalist remark play and that they were attempting to forestall the dispersed of "misinformation."

"A fig of individuals sought to sermon what was reported successful the media and sermon a circumstantial pupil contempt repeated requests from the Board Chair not to bash so. As a result, the Board Chair concluded nationalist remark to reconstruct order, successful accordance with School Board nationalist remark procedures," the merchandise said. "Misinformation is connected the rise, and schoolhouse divisions similar LCPS indispensable beryllium vigilant successful actively combating it. It is our work to telephone retired misinformation erstwhile allegations are incorrect, unsubstantiated, oregon deliberately utilized to make part wrong our community."

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Patti Hidalgo Menders speaks retired against committee actions during a Loudoun County Public School Board gathering successful Ashburn, Virginia, connected Oct. 12, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The board besides argued that the allegations against the pupil astatine the halfway of the contention "are not facts," and that naming the pupil oregon speaking astir the pupil nationalist would bash a "disservice not conscionable to the individuals involved" and "the full community."

"This is peculiarly unsafe erstwhile it involves our children and their safety," the merchandise read.

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The incidental is not the archetypal clip the Loudoun County School Board has recovered themselves successful the spotlight, having generated contention implicit the past fewer years for its policies connected transgender students and bath policies that let transgender students and locker rooms based connected their chosen, not biological, gender.

In the board’s latest controversy, the parents reason that they person a close to dependable their concerns astir the district’s argumentation during nationalist hearings.

Loudoun County School Board members ballot to enact Policy 8040 during a schoolhouse committee gathering astatine the Loudoun County Public Schools Administration Building connected Aug. 11, 2021 successful Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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"While Loudoun County Public Schools whitethorn judge that it tin deprive First Amendment rights based connected its claims of alleged ‘misinformation,’ the Bill of Rights makes wide that successful the United States, the authorities is not the arbiter of truth," Prior said.

The Loudoun County School Board did not respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment.