{"id":825369,"date":"2021-09-28T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=825369"},"modified":"2021-09-28T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:29:16","slug":"welcome-home-matt-hundreds-join-matt-walsh-to-demand-parental-rights-in-loudoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/welcome-home-matt-hundreds-join-matt-walsh-to-demand-parental-rights-in-loudoun\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Welcome Home Matt\u2019: Hundreds Join Matt Walsh To Demand Parental Rights In Loudoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwelcome-home-matt-hundreds-join-matt-walsh-to-demand-parental-rights-in-loudoun%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=825369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In front of the Loudoun County, Virginia school board headquarters Tuesday afternoon, ten police officers and two canine patrols blocked a section of road. Pouring towards them was a formidable threat: a line of cars that filled the parking lot to capacity. Stepping out of them were suburban mothers with strollers and signs that said, \u201cLoudoun County\u2019s worst nightmare: educated parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They gathered in front of a banner with the Martin Luther King quote that said, \u201cI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,\u201d as a stream of parents and advocates, culminating with The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh, demanded schools free of ideological indoctrination and education officials that respect the desires of parents.<\/p>\n<p>Xi Van Fleet, who immigrated from China, told the crowd that critical race theory \u201chas roots in Marxism and Communism and should have no place in our schools\u2026 I went through the whole Cultural Revolution\u2026 The [Communist Party of China] and the Left want to sow the same seeds in our children: division and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attendees included many people in their teens and early 20s. Payton So, a senior at a Loudoun high school, told The Daily Wire she attended because \u201cThey got rid of homecoming court. They took all the staff men\u2019s bathrooms and turned them into transgender bathrooms. On the first day of school, they made us do pronouns\u2026 They just started a \u2018colored women\u2019s club\u2019 at my school. I\u2019m half Asian so I guess I could join, but I don\u2019t see a reason to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also included people of all races. Josiah Gaiter told the crowd that Derrick Bell, a father of critical race theory, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2004\/april21\/brownbell-421.html#:~:text=In%20conclusion%2C%20Bell%20argued%20that,new%20ones%2C%22%20he%20said.\">said<\/a> that black children might have been better off without the Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation. \u201cAnyone here in favor of segregated classrooms?\u201d asked Gaiter, who is black. The crowd shouted, \u201cNo!\u201d Gaiter said parents should go to <a href=\"https:\/\/parentsknowbest.com\/\">parentsknowbest.com<\/a>, where his group is \u201ctraining people to run for school board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Weiskopf, a Loudoun County teacher who has bragged about indoctrinating students and said that \u201can educator in a system of oppression is either a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking\">revolutionary<\/a> or an oppressor,\u201d sat in the grass, leaning against a brick building. And a Washington Post reporter stared warily at the crowd as if he were a zoologist examining an exotic species.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_290713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290713\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-290713 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3.jpg\" alt width=\"787\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/3.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-290713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke Rosiak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Activist Ian Prior, wearing a shirt that said \u201cmy child, my choice,\u201d said that \u201cThey need to start acting like a school board and stop acting like a politburo that wants to take over raising our children. If you want to take that responsibility you are going to have to pry it from my cold dead hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that soon after Matt Walsh announced that he would travel from Tennessee to attempt to speak during the school board meeting\u2019s public comment section, the school board changed the rules to keep out non-residents, without taking a vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say it\u2019s to keep out national agitators, but how did they get this national attention? They have to look in the mirror. First, they kept our kids out of school for a year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when they proposed a policy on transgender students and solicited public comment, they suspended a teacher, Tanner Cross, for giving his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Loudoun declared a school board meeting an unlawful assembly after so many parents noisily voiced their opposition to the transgender policy. John Tigges was arrested for allegedly refusing to leave the meeting. \u201cThat is the last time I stand and hold my ground. From now on, we\u2019re going to take ground back,\u201d he told the crowd Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the public was not allowed into the school board meeting. Though at least 20 rally participants secured public speaking slots, they were taken into the building ten at a time. By the door was a sign that said \u201cWelcome Home Matt.\u201d Walsh signed a lease to become a Loudoun resident to make him eligible to speak to the board.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Langhofer, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom who is representing Cross, said after the court blocked his suspension, Loudoun appealed to the Supreme Court, and \u201cThe Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed the rights of Tanner and all teachers to live and work according to their beliefs\u2026 teachers shouldn\u2019t be required to promote an agenda based on radical ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two other teachers challenging the policy in court also spoke. \u201cStop pushing parents out of the picture,\u201d Kim Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Gill, another teacher, said, \u201cThey\u2019re not protecting kids, they\u2019re pushing radical ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_290714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290714\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-290714 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4.jpg\" alt width=\"743\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/4.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-290714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke Rosiak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Walsh told the crowd, \u201cThe days of cooperation with evil and falsehood are over,\u201d adding that activists who have infiltrated school boards aim \u201cto sexualize children and rob them of innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose perverts on the school boards tell our daughters that they\u2019re bigots because they don\u2019t want to change in the locker room in front of their male classmates\u2026 &nbsp;They seek to be like gods, not creating but recreating our children in their own twisted image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But parents said the actions of high-profile national commentators alone would never be enough to retake schools in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Dimis Christophe, who said he immigrated from Iran without speaking a word of English and is proud that the Loudoun County school board would now deem his children \u201cprivileged,\u201d told parents: \u201cYou need to be involved. Don\u2019t just let them come home and watch T.V. Talk to them. Ask them what\u2019s going on\u201d at school.<\/p>\n<p>Looking out at the hundreds of parents, parent Scott Mineo said, \u201cThere is no silver bullet in this fight. You know what the silver bullet is? It\u2019s us: all of us here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In front of the Loudoun County, Virginia school board headquarters Tuesday afternoon, ten police officers and two canine patrols blocked a section of road. 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