A Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher abruptly quit her job during a school board meeting after she railed against the teaching of critical race theory in public school classrooms.
A report from WUSA-TV detailed the tense environment at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, noting that more than 150 people were scheduled to speak in person about “transgender policy, [the] new in-school mask mandate, vaccines, virtual learning, and critical race theory.”
Laura Morris, a former fifth-grade teacher at Lucketts Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, quit in front of the Loudoun County School Board as she tearfully protested against controversial policies including CRT, transgender locker rooms, and more.
Sobbing, Morris said, “School board, I quit! I quit your politics. I quit your trainings and I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents — the children. I will find employment elsewhere. I encourage all parents and staff in this country to flood the private schools.”
According to the Daily Mail, Morris also slammed the school board’s fixation on CRT lessons in schools.
“This summer I have struggled with the idea of returning to school, knowing that I’ll be working yet again with a school division that, despite its shiny tech and flashy salary, promotes political ideologies that do not square with who I am as a believer in Christ,” she added.
She also added that she was previously told during “so-called equity trainings that white, Christian, able-bodied females currently have the power in our schools and, quote, ‘This has to change.'”
I hope that many of her fellow teachers walk out that door with her and start their own school and parents should support that and pay them.
A bit dramatic for my taste. I currently work as a teacher and have done so for 20 years. If you are any kind of smart you show up for this month’s rhetoric training. You smile, nod your head and look interested. Then, you go back to your classroom, close the door and teach without the political B.S. I’ve survived very well being a conservative in a totally out of control school system that is Wicomico County. You just keep your head down, don’t make yourself a target and give the appearance of being a good little automaton.
Thank you for your service to the kids, and I agree that staying under the radar is a work-around, but you shouldn’t have to do that. There are teacher who are not like you pushing this to kids who are impressionable. It is only a matter of time until the weed good teachers like you out and replace them with bad ones.