January 1, GOP Slams Loudoun School Board Over Suspensions

Wyatt’s Take

• Loudoun County’s school board faces backlash after suspending boys for locker room complaints.
• State Republicans argue the policy threatens privacy and ignores parents.
• Officials call for leadership change and a return to commonsense values.

Three boys in Loudoun County were suspended after voicing unease about sharing the boys’ locker room with a transgender student.

This incident led to sharp criticism from Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, candidate John Reid, and local Republican leaders, who say the school board pushes an extreme agenda at the expense of children’s privacy.

Geary Higgins, the county’s last Republican state lawmaker, called the board’s actions “an embarrassment to our county, a danger to our children, a betrayal of our parents, and a disservice to the countless good teachers and principals at our Loudoun County Public Schools—who are being forced to carry out a radical political agenda that puts students last and keeps parents in the dark.”

Higgins said, “They have been punished and defamed for sexual harassment simply because they were uncomfortable with a female watching them change and filming them in their locker room.”

He claims the boys are victims, not wrongdoers, and pushed for electing new leadership to reset school values and protect students’ basic rights.

Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears argued that every child has a right to privacy, stating, “We don’t want to undress at the gym, in a locker room, in front of the opposite sex. And if we don’t want that as adults, imagine our very vulnerable children, especially our girl children.”

Loudoun County Public Schools denied the suspensions were based solely on the students’ discomfort. “At no time would LCPS suspend a student simply because they expressed some kind of discomfort… there is a high bar to launch a Title IX investigation and an even higher bar to determine a student is in violation of Title IX,” a school spokesman said.

The spokesman also rejected claims education had declined in the county, saying such statements were “completely not true.”

Republican leaders want a commonsense school board that puts families first, not radical politics.

Wyatt Matters

When schools forget the values that built strong communities, it’s working folks and their kids who suffer most. Protecting privacy and common sense is something Middle America still believes in.

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