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her name is a fifth grade teacher and
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she stood up and said
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she was leaving her job because you no
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longer value me or many of the teachers
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you’ve employed in this county i quit
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being a cog in a machine that tells me
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to push highly politicized agendas to
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our most vulnerable constituents and i
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think that was around the thing about
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you know
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trans identity and whether children can
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decide if they’re trans or not and you
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know you know that that’s another issue
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that your group are concerned about
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yeah certainly because they all fall
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within the very you know cornucopia of
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issues which are how does
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your how what happens when you send your
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kids through those two doors and you
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know i question
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certainly the religious conscience um
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provision of the first amendment i mean
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you have christians that
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simply their beliefs do not align with
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what this new policy that is you know
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allows
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biological males to use girls bathrooms
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it forces students and and teachers to
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use preferred pronouns of of transgender
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kids and it puts them all in the same
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sports um sports uh you know teams
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and
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and so what you have there are
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people that
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you know are concerned or concerned for
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a variety of reasons you know like i was
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talking about the religious conscience
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you know what if you’re a muslim family
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um and you have certain religious
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beliefs that that don’t align with your
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your daughter being in a locker room
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with a biological male or you’re a
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christian and you know you don’t
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um you know affirming someone’s pronoun
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that they can they can change their
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their sex from how they were born
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doesn’t align with your religious values
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and now you’re compelling speech you’re
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compelling these individuals to speak in
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violation of their own rights and so
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whatever it is whether it’s the
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transgender policies whether it’s
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critical race theory
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whether it’s silencing teachers
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silencing parents you know they actually
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have an anonymous bias reporting portal
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for students so if i’m a student i can
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and you’re a student i can anonymously
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report you
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for an incident of bias and that report
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would then go to the office of equity at
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the school and then be handed over to
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equity ambassadors for them to discuss
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it in private sessions now you click
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through this this bias reporting portal
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and it’s got a variety of things you can
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report but you know one of the
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most
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vague and arbitrary in there
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um
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lack of inclusion right and so my
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immediate thought is okay great so we’re
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gonna have you know we’re gonna have
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like a basketball game out at recess and
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you know look some kid’s gonna get
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picked last okay no one likes getting
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picked last but it happens well now you
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can report that right so now when you’re
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doing your pickup basketball games at
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recess you’re like oh i guess i i
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i can’t i can’t pick anyone last we
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can’t have this game we just gotta stay
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here you know i mean it creates
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confusion it everyone takes themselves
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too seriously people just need to
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understand that
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you know intentions
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are the important thing not what you
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know what the other person feels right
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so if i don’t intend to harm you but you
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feel offended somehow we’re now catering
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to the people that are willing to get
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offended at just about everything and
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they take the intent out of it and
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that’s a very dangerous place to be i
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mean our legal system you know other
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legal systems depend on intent for
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whether it’s civil liability or criminal
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liability if we’re starting to say
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intent no longer matters it’s only what
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the result was we’re getting to a place
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where well past western liberalism past
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meritocracy past equal opportunity and
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into it into a place where really we are
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we’re in a danger zone
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and you have children in the you know
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you know in your schooling system in
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loudoun county so as a parent and your
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fellow parents do you feel that your
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impact or influencing your child is also
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being um diluted because of what’s going
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on at school maybe within your own four
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walls you know you you want to instill
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particular values and you can’t do that
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do you think the school’s
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overstepping its mark a little bit and
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sort of airing into your territory
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absolutely you know i had a
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um an incident a couple of months ago
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where you know i read these these
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history books to my kids their kids
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books um they’re just the basics right
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it could be about george washington
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could be about jackie robinson whatever
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um i read a book about columbus you know
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sailing over to um to north south
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america or
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central america and um
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the next day she comes home and she’s
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seven you know she comes home and
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uh with with my five-year-old in tow at
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the time that there were their ages
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and says uh hey why’d you read us a book
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about a bad guy i’m like well what do
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you mean
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like well you know columbus they told us
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today at school that he killed a bunch
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of people and and took slaves and i’m
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like
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okay well what did you see and so they
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show she showed me this video i mean it
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was really not a video for for second
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graders right i mean if you actually
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look at the video it’s not supposed to
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be shown to second graders it’s a middle
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school thing but it was like this
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cartoon and they’ve got all these you
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know native bodies just on the ground
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all dead and then they have a priest
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with with a big cross in the sky um and
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you know he’s forcibly converting them
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to christianity and you know the natives
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were all peaceful and and these guys
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were all bad and that’s why we don’t
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celebrate columbus day anymore and so
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now i’m sitting there with okay i just
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read my childhood a very simple book a
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historical fact
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and now she’s questioning my credibility
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because of that and
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that’s not something you need in second
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grade right now look when you get into
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middle school or high school of course
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you’re going to talk about history
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you’re going to talk about the warts in
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history the bad things in history you’re
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also going to give some context to it
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things that happened 700 years ago there
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were different norms there were
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different cultures there were different
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ways of thinking that you know when
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you’re seven you don’t necessarily
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understand how that works
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and so they’re creating a situation
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where really they’re trying to co-parent
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with uh with parents and i’ll give you
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one more example we found a teacher
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training out of loudoun county public
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schools that said
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it’s the job of the teacher to inculcate
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morals and that parents have to be
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respectful of that like no that’s not
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their job their job is to teach them
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math science reading um writing
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accurate history that teaches the
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negative but also the positives that
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come from it and don’t just view
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everything through this negative lens
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getting into social issues at especially
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a young age where you think that is your
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job as a you know government-funded
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taxpayer-funded institution to inculcate
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morals in kids over the parents
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objections is morally indefensible
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and i know the teachers in a difficult
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position here or are the teachers with
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the school board because i assume that
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you know teachers obviously given
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instructions they’re giving curriculum
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and obviously you know they’re they’re
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employed they receive a salary and if
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they don’t do their job they may not
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receive that salary so are the teachers
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sympathetic to what you’re saying and
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have to teach these things or are they
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in line with what the school board is is
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intending
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i think it’s a combination of both i
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think some teachers are more than happy
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to do what um what the school board and
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the superintendent and the state
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department of education are are
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recommending i think a lot of teachers
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want no part of it um but the problem is
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you know many of them are afraid to come
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out and say this because
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they will silence they could get fired
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they could get put on administrative
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leave you know we’re going around
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getting these signatures
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to recall school board members and
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there’s been several teachers that have
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said i’d love to sign i’m just afraid
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that they’re going to come after me and
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now of course that you know if they if
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if anyone signed a petition to remove a
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government official and then the school
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retaliated against them that teacher
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would have quite a lawsuit on their
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hands um that they could that they could
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file but it doesn’t change the fact that
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they’re they’re afraid of repercussions
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and they’re afraid that they cannot
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speak their mind or exercise their first
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amendment rights even on their own time
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and where do you see this going you know
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what do you think realistically can
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happen in loudoun county and you you
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alluded to earlier that maybe other
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parts of the america can look to loudoun
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county it’s quite an interesting place
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to take a lead from but you know what
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change you think you can make you know
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do you think you can take back the power
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so to speak
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yeah you know i think certainly
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we’re pursuing this removal option that
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we have in virginia it’s tough to do uh
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it hasn’t been done much
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but we think we have we have some good
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cases here that we can certainly test i
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also think litigation uh you’re gonna
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start seeing a lot of litigation against
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these public schools
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and they’re gonna have to deal with that
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and they’re gonna have to deal with
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paying a lot of taxpayer money to defend
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policies that were drafted up clearly
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without the law in mind um and that’s
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that’s going to keep the pressure on
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them until election time really and and
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here in loudoun county we don’t have
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elections at the school board level
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until 2023 unfortunately but i could
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certainly see this this school board in
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this um county um school district
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getting bogged down in litigation over
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the transgender policy over critical
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race theory over um you know trying to
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go after teachers for exercising their
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