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A Fairfax County, Va., mom sharply criticized the school board for a proposed rule which could suspend or expel students for “maliciously misgendering” their peers, calling the board’s actions a “move toward totalitarianism.”
“I think it’s inappropriate, completely, for the school to be involved in something so far outside of general education for children,” Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, who has three sons in the Fairfax County Public Schools system, told Fox News Digital.
“It’s clearly an activist board we have. It’s basically a totalitarian regime. They like to ban everything they’re against, and mandate everything they’re for,” she said.
The board of the Fairfax County Public Schools in the northern Virginia city is voting on updates to the Students Rights and Responsibilities (SRR) handbook on May 26, including updated rules that make “malicious deadnaming” and “malicious misgendering” of classmates a Level 4 offense. Violation of the rule allows for a suspension up to five days “if frequency and intensity are present.”
“The point of education is reading, writing, math, science, factual history. It’s not to get lessons in pronouns,” she said.
America First Legal Senior Advisor Ian Prior said the rule is “quite likely unconstitutional on a number of levels.”
“You are compelling students to speak in a way that may violate their conscience, and may violate parental rights under the 14th Amendment,” he told Fox News Digital.
Prior said the school board has shown “a complete di… (Read more)
