The Loudoun bathroom teen rape situation just keeps getting worse HotAir

I ve been following Ed Morrissey s coverage of the ongoing horror show in the Loudoun County, Virginia school district where multiple rapes of children inside school buildings were covered up by the school board. That lasted until the father of one of the victims who had been raped in a school bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt went public. There s been a different sort of coverup taking place since then in the form of a near-total mainstream media blackout of the story, with a few incomplete exceptions. Despite the fact that the school board clearly appears to have violated state laws regarding sexual assaults, it still seemed as if nobody in the school system was going to be held accountable.

That situation may have started to change on Friday. There have been multiple calls from the parents of students in the district for school superintendent Scott Ziegler and the entire school board to resign. And as of yesterday, someone has indeed resigned. But it was only one member of the school board and not even the president. Her name is Beth Barts and as National Review reported yesterday, her resignation won t even take effect until next month.

A member of the Loudoun County School Board announced her resignation on Friday, amid a recall effort and ongoing controversies over a reported case of sexual assault in school.

Please accept this letter as my formal resignation from the Loudoun County School Board effective November 2, 2021, Beth Barts wrote in a Facebook post. This was not an easy decision or a decision made in haste. After much thought and careful consideration, it is the right decision for me and my family.

Barts was already facing a recall attempt by a parent group called Fight for Schools, which accused Barts of initiating a targeting campaign against parents who opposed critical race theory.

I had initially held off on commenting on this story, partly because Ed was already covering it. But I think there was also an element of shock involved. This is a situation that is just so awful that it s difficult to believe it s really happening and it almost defies words.

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“This is a situation that is just so awful that it s difficult to believe it s really happening and it almost defies words.” It is pretty awful, isn’t it? But this is what you get when you have school boards that believe their job is not just to educate children, as their parents would, but to remake society. Nobody evil starts out thinking — I’m going to be evil. Well, perhaps a few do. Most just think they know what’s good, more than almost everybody else. They’re experts after all. It proceeds, step by small step. And the next thing you know, you have a boy in a dress in the girls’ restroom, sodomizing a crying girl. You say to yourself, ok, it might have happened, but there’s a bigger picture here, a more important end. And the girl’s parents’ child has to be made to seem a liar. And pretty soon, you’re the baddie. That’s how I imagine it, anyway. That’s giving them the benefit of the doubt. But we mustn’t forget, this story is really happening and it’s too horrible for words.