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Loudoun County School Board spends $11M on new bathroom design, cuts special ed funds
Loudoun County special education teachers have persistently asked the Loudoun County School Board to hire more special education teachers.
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They are cutting special education services, so that they can build bathrooms that supposedly boys and girls can safely use. This after at least two rapes in that district by the same boy dressed as a girl. We don't know how many more such rapes there have been since Loudoun County covers up rapes as its standard procedure.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7news) — Over the last three weeks, Loudoun County special education teachers have persistently asked the Loudoun County School Board to hire more special education teachers, teaching assistants and speech-language pathologists (SLP).
“Language needs are increasing,” one educator said at a school board meeting.
“We are indeed not overstaffed but grossly understaffed,” another educator said at a school board meeting. “Do you all know that SLPs, we don't get subs? We take a sick day or a personal day, there's no one to cover for us.”
"SLP" means "speech Language Pathologist," also known as "speech teachers."
“Please do not exclude special education students in your plan for excellence,” another educator said at a school board meeting.
The call for additional special education investments and resources comes as Loudoun County Public Schools is allocating funding elsewhere, including $11 million for new bathroom designs at two high schools.
Instead, the school board is cutting three speech pathologists, one special education supervisor, three occupational therapists and fourteen teachers, according to an LCPS spokesperson. The LCPS spokesperson added that the school district is adding 13 teaching assistants, which would be a net decrease of eight positions.
"Teaching Assistants" means lightly educated and very low-paid people, who are to give instruction under the supervision of teachers (who are themselves giving instruction at the same time they are supposed to supervise the assistants). Some of them are awesome, even great educators who were not able to go to college at a young age, and now want a job that allows their schedule to match that of their own school-aged kids. But, they are in no way a substitute for a special education teacher or general education teacher with training in special education. Certainly thirteen assistants are no substitute for twenty-one special educators.
You get what you pay for, and Laudoun county wants to pay to virtue signal to the transgenderization of children movement.
“We are here to educate kids,” Loudoun County School Board member Tiffany Polifko said. “That’s what taxpayers are funding.”
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“I simply cannot understand why we would justify funds to allow boys and girls to co-mingle in the bathroom and not consider the unintended consequences there while also turning our cheek and looking the other way,” Polifko said.
The Loudoun County School Board is considering floor-to-ceiling bathroom stalls with shared sink areas for all school bathrooms. This would be in place of all gender-separated bathrooms. LCPS is also considering building private bathrooms in schools, in addition to keeping gender-separated bathrooms to accommodate transgender and nonbinary students.
That last sentence makes no sense. How would gender seperated bathrooms accommodate transgender and nonbinary students? But that is probably what the wokesters on the schoolboard told the reporter. That's the Democratic Party gaslighting in action. Up is down, black is white, divisiveness is our strength, ignorance is bliss.
