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

A group of parents is suing nan Loudoun County School Board successful northern Virginia, claiming they were silenced by nan committee erstwhile attempting to raise concerns astir a student who was allowed to return to schoolhouse contempt alleged ties to nan notorious MS-13 gang.

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

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

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Students, parents and others clasp signs extracurricular nan 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 nan U.S. District Court for nan Eastern District of Virginia, declare that their First Amendment authorities were violated during an Oct. 8 nationalist schoolhouse committee meeting, wherever immoderate of them attempted to raise concerns to nan committee astir their determination to reinstate nan student only for nan committee to trim disconnected their microphones and extremity nan nationalist remark period.

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

"A number of individuals sought to talk what was reported successful nan media and talk a circumstantial student contempt repeated requests from nan Board Chair not to do so. As a result, nan Board Chair concluded nationalist remark to reconstruct order, successful accordance pinch School Board nationalist remark procedures," nan merchandise said. "Misinformation is connected nan rise, and schoolhouse divisions for illustration LCPS must beryllium vigilant successful actively combating it. It is our work to telephone retired misinformation erstwhile allegations are incorrect, unsubstantiated, aliases deliberately utilized to create section 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 based on that nan allegations against nan student astatine nan halfway of nan contention "are not facts," and that naming nan student aliases speaking astir nan student nationalist would do a "disservice not conscionable to nan individuals involved" and "the full community."

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

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The incident is not nan first clip nan Loudoun County School Board has recovered themselves successful nan spotlight, having generated contention complete nan 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 nan board’s latest controversy, nan parents reason that they person a correct to sound their concerns astir nan district’s argumentation during nationalist hearings.

Loudoun County School Board members ballot to enact Policy 8040 during a schoolhouse committee gathering astatine nan 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,’ nan Bill of Rights makes clear that successful nan United States, nan authorities is not nan arbiter of truth," Prior said.

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