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- April 13, 2022
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Fairfax County Schools Bans Cellphones After All-Time High Use rates

A school in Fairfax County is taking steps to curb all time high cellphone use rates during classes. In an email to the Herndon High School community, Principal Liz Noto said that beginning this week, the school will “be implementing a schoolwide policy to stop cellphone and headphone use in all classes.” The announcement comes […]

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- April 10, 2022
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Parent Opposed to ‘Race-Based’ Admissions Scores Massive Legal Victory After Being Criminally Charged

A Virginia parent won a legal victory when a Fairfax County judge dismissed four charges of libel and slander with prejudice Friday. Harry Jackson, a former PTA president of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology who opposed changes to the school’s admissions policy, was facing libel and slander charges in the wake of claiming that […]

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- April 6, 2022
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Dad Facing Charges After Raising Concerns About Possible Predatory Behavior at Elite Virginia School

A concerned father faces four misdemeanor charges thanks to an obscure law and a commonwealth’s attorney’s apparent decision to look the other way even though the defendant is a black man facing particularly dubious charges. Harry Jackson’s alleged crime? Tweeting that Jorge Torrico, a liberal activist, exhibited grooming behavior while interacting with Thomas Jefferson High […]

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- March 19, 2022
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Mom Confronts Fairfax County School Board Over Son’s Suicide

After months of unimaginable heartache, a grieving mother spoke before the Fairfax County Public School Board, blaming its COVID-19 policies for contributing to her son’s suicide. WATCH: Robert Walsh, 19, had struggled with autism throughout his life. According to his mother, Cynthia Walsh, Robert needed access to a counselor, and the virtual sessions provided by […]

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- February 25, 2022
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Admissions Policy at Nation’s Most Elite School Ruled Discriminatory

A federal judge ruled today that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s admissions policy illegally discriminates against Asian Americans. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton declared that the Fairfax County School Board resorted to impermissible “racial balancing” when they decided to scrap a traditional standardize test students worked so hard to ace. In its […]

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- January 29, 2022
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Fairfax County Public Schools Ordered to Suspend Maskless Students

Virginia’s largest public school system is in open revolt against Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s mask-optional order. In an uncompromising message to school administrators, Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) Superintendent Dr. Scott Brabrand  demanded that maskless children be threatened with suspension. Brabrand’s orders were shared with administrators in a painstaking, 34 slide long PowerPoint presentation. Asra Nomani, […]

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- January 22, 2022
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Virginia Public School Students Forced to Check Their Privilege

Students in Virginia’s largest school district were recently forced to play a game of “Identify Your Privilege Bingo.” Apparently, their woke millennial teachers thought it was a good idea. Instead of letters and numbers on their score cards, students had squares that said things like “heterosexual,” “comfortable working outside alone,” and “feel safe around police […]

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- December 25, 2021
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Parents Get Revenge on COVID Crazy School Board Member

Parents have moved to recall a member of the Fairfax County School Board who seems determined to risks student’s childhood development by keeping them in prolonged confinement. The development could mark a turning point for Fairfax County Public Schools, which has seen its enrollment drop by 5.4% since 2019. The Washington Free Beacon adds: Open […]

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- December 10, 2021
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School System Settles Suit Over Treatment of Disabled Students – But Questions Remain

Fairfax County Public Schools have settled a lawsuit with disability rights organizations and families over the district’s harsh punishments like physical restraints and seclusion used on special-ed students. Many consider those implements and techniques overly harsh for the school setting and counterproductive. Per WTOP: But some parents who belong to the Fairfax County Special Education […]

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- October 15, 2021
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Mao Survivor Accuses School Board of ‘Communist Tactics’

Xi Van Fleet knows how brutal revolution can be. As a young girl, she survived Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Under the traumatic circumstances, two million of her countrymen died. Desperate to escape oppression, Van Fleet eventually immigrated to the United States. She settled in Northern Virginia and became a mother. Although worried about the FBI’s […]

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