Thread by @lukerosiak

Loudoun schools superintendent responds to infamous enemies list of parents, says "LCPS recognizes the right of its employees to free speech."

Meanwhile, a member of the system's Equity Committee proposed banning Trump paraphernalia in schools.

dailywire.com/news/loudoun-t…

Super apparently believes 1A protects supporting Equity policies, but not criticizing them: In September, he introduced a policy saying “An employee’s First Amendment right to engage in protected speech… may be outweighed by the school division’s interest in… racial equity.”

Loudoun is the district where a Facebook group including current and former teachers and parents made a list of parents who were skeptical, critical or simply neutral about the schools' heavy focus on race, with some parents believing it amounted to political indoctrination.

At the school board Equity Committee's March 4 meeting, a professional "equity specialist" and member said: “The Trump 2020 flag... it has became [sic] a symbol of hate. So I’m just wondering about how we can... make the, ah, system-wide ruling and write that into the policy."

Superintendent Ziegler denied that LCPS uses critical race theory, while sending readers to "resources" that draw from critical race theory, and a "culturally responsive framework" written in part by Tara Hewan, the member who sought to ban Trump and now works for Fairfax schools