(John Ransom, Headline USA) One Loudon County assistant principal is being criticized after threatening parents and students with class I misdemeanor charges for trespassing if the students come to school and don’t wear a mask, according to audio recordings made by parents of the exchange.
“It’s important that I point out to you,” said the administrator about maskless kids, “that they are not allowed on campus or on Loudon County Public School property, starting tomorrow it will be considered trespassing, so it’s important that I make that statement to you.”
The audio appears to be a call from the assistant principal to a parent of students who had already been suspended for refusing to wear masks and were being put in a temporary holding area.
This is audio from the Assistant Principal of a Loudoun County elementary school informing parents that children who come back to school maskless will be charged with “trespassing”
In Virginia, trespassing is a Class I felony that holds a 12-month jail sentence or $2,500 fine pic.twitter.com/lawXgLIfI5
— Chrissy Clark (@chrissyclark_) February 2, 2022
Loudon County Public Schools voted in January to continue a mask policy even as the governor signed an executive order allowing parents to op-out for their children.
“Gov. Glenn Youngkin [R-VA] on Saturday, his first day in office,” said WTOP, “signed an executive order letting parents declare their children exempt from school mask mandates,” adding that some Virginia schools have dropped the mask requirement and others have left it in place, creating confusion.
This is not the first time that the controversial school district has been under fire. Earlier this year, schools officials faced criticism and protest for publicly shaming maskless students and meting out suspensions for “disobedience” if students were caught maskless.
Loudon County Public Schools has been a magnet for criticism in the last year after imposing far-left policies on the district, including the teaching of radical Critical Race Theory and allowing gender-confused students to pick sex-inappropriate bathrooms that resulted in multiple rapes.
School officials have also been accused of trying to intimidate parents who challenge their policies by compiling a blacklist of parents and students with the object of shaming them online as hate-filled bigots.
“Loudoun County has long been at the forefront of woke progressivism,” said the Washington Times when reporting on the blacklist. “It was the school district which first took aim at Dr. Seuss books for their ‘strong racial undertones.’”
According to Fox News, parents have sued the district over the mask policies.
“Despite belatedly allowing students to return to Loudoun County Public Schools,” said the lawsuit posted on Fox, “the Board continues to demand that they wear restrictive facemasks for up to seven or eight hours a day — imposing physical, psychological, and developmental consequences that could be severe.”
