The grand-jury report and indictments represent a huge vindication for parents, who have struggled to fight a tidal wave of anti-parent propaganda. All along the way, they have been dismissed as cranks and monsters. School bureaucrats and teachers’ unions in Loudoun claimed they felt threatened by parents’ questions. Democrats claimed that protesting parents were dupes of the Republican Party and were seeking to use children to politicise education. The leftist media said accusations against school officials in Loudoun were a ‘big lie’, a ‘culture-war fantasy’ and a ‘21st-century Satanic panic’.
But the grand-jury investigation has revealed the truth. These protesting Loudoun parents, who come from a mix of classes and political views, are simply people who care about the safety, wellbeing and education of their children. They had very good reason to ask questions and to seek accountability from school officials. The grand-jury report ‘confirms what we have been telling the world for the last two years’, says Ian Prior, executive director of parents’ group Fight for Schools. The report ‘should shock the conscience of everyone that reads it’, he says.
The grand-jury findings are also a victory for Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin. The parents’ uprising in his state propelled his election in November 2021, and he singled out Loudoun schools as a prime example of what has gone wrong in the American education system. One of his first moves on taking office was to sign an executive order to set up the special grand jury, in order to get to the bottom of the Loudoun schools mess.
This story of the horrific sexual assaults, and of officials’ attempts to cover them up, shows how cruel and immoral woke politics can be.
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