“ I serve God fi rst, and I will not affi rm that a biological boy can be a girl, and vice versa, because it is against my religion, it’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God.”
— Byron “Tanner” Cross, teacher
the school board’s controversial left- ward tilt coming from a mile away.
HOW IT ALL STARTED The process began in August 2019, he says, with “implicit bias training” for teachers and “a gradual introduction of equity and diversity and inclusiveness. They’re very soft, innocent-sounding terms.”
According to Mineo, the radical-
BATTLE LINE Sheriff ’s deputies arrest a man in Ashburn, Virginia, after a fight broke out in June during a Loudoun County School Board meeting discussing critical race theory.
the school district’s new policy on sex orientation and gender identifi cation. “I love all of my students,” Cross
declared at a school board meeting. “But I would never lie to them regard- less of the consequences. I am a teach- er, but I serve God fi rst, and I will not affi rm that a biological boy can be a girl, and vice versa, because it is against my religion, it’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God.” The school board moved swiftly to
suspend Cross following his statement. A judge later ordered the school district to reinstate him, citing his freedom of religion. The fi nal adjudication of his case continues to work its way through the courts. Scott Mineo, a parent and founder
of the Loudoun-based Parents Against Critical Theory (PACT), says he saw
ization process got a boost from state offi cials struggling to overcome the 2019 blackface scandal involving two prominent Democrats, Gov. Ralph Northam and State Attorney General Mark Herring. Mineo, a 49-year-old security ana-
lyst with a daughter in high school, tells Newsmax that activists used the COVID-19 lockdowns to advance radi- cal school policies. Parents were so dis- tracted just trying to get their kids back in school, he says, that they tended to overlook the encroachment of race- based content into teach- er training and curricula. In September 2020,
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the school board issued “an apology to the Black community of Loudoun County” over how county offi cials resisted deseg- regation in the ’50s and ’60s.
Some saw the apology
as a half-hearted eff ort to head off intervention by the state in response to social-justice complaints of systemic bias. Noting only about 7
percent of Loudoun’s stu- dent population is Black, Mineo remarks, “They
I AM NOT AN OPPRESSOR The cover story of last month’s Newsmax magazine focused on parents across the country fighting to stop critical race theory being taught in schools.
use race to get what they want, and they are casting a wide net on the 93 percent of students who are not Black that they are racist and belong to some sort of white supremacy. “If we disagree with what they want
or what they suggest, we’re labeled as racists.” In November 2020, Herring’s offi ce
responded to an NAACP complaint and found reasonable cause to con- clude Loudoun’s school policies and practices had a discriminatory impact on Blacks and Latinos. The NAACP issued proposed “terms
of conciliation” that included an end to “high stakes” standardized testing to gain admission to special charter schools and educational programs.
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IMPACT OF ACTIVISTS As social-justice activists began to have a greater impact on school poli- cies, teacher training, and curricula, parents and some teachers began to organize and push back. That eff ort eventually escalated to protests at the school board meet- ings, and six members of the school board are fac- ing recall petitions. Mineo’s group shot
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to prominence in Feb- ruary after exposing the school system’s decision to “cancel Dr. Seuss,” as he put it. The school sys- tem announced Dr. Seuss books contain “racial undertones” unsuitable for “culturally respon- sive” learning. “I was getting com- ments from Australia
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