by Tara Mergener at CBN News
In Loudoun County, concerned parents believe public school board members are censoring free speech and discriminating against students based on race.
Tuesday night brought the latest in a series of showdowns between outraged parents and a school board that they believe is indoctrinating children with leftist ideology.
Loudoun County Public Schools are now seen as ground zero for the public controversies that are roiling parents nationwide. Voices here are among the loudest with a growing number of parents insisting the system is indoctrinating children with an anti-American agenda.
About an hour west of Washington, D.C., the area is famous for rolling hills, wineries, and staggering population growth over the last couple decades.
These days, however, it’s getting headlines for explosive school board meetings, which now include irate parents reading X-rated book excerpts from the required high school grade reading list.
“They’re perverted,” said Natasha Grover, a parent. “There’s no other reasonable explanation for why adults would want to expose other people’s kids to sexual content.”
Grover is among a growing chorus of Loudoun parents accusing school board members of targeting religious freedom and traditional family values.
“They’re teaching children to essentially hate their parents,” said Mike Miller of Discerning the Faith Ministries.
Many parents are also sounding off about a divisive race curriculum.
“It’s abusive and discriminates against one’s color,” shouted Shawntel Cooper at a school board meeting last month.
Patti Menders is among those who insist students are used to push politics.
“My parents escaped from Communist Cuba in 1961, and I was taught at a very young age what to look for in socialism. What do they do? They go right to the children,” said Menders…
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