Moms protest over letter calling parents at school board meetings 'domestic terrorists'
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — A group of moms is really ticked off at the National School Boards Association over a letter it sent last month to President Biden comparing parental behavior at school board meetings to domestic terrorism. In Alexandria, Virginia Wednesday Moms For America protested the request by the NSBA to have the FBI investigate parents at some school districts in front of the NSBA headquarters.
“What did the NSBA do? They called the parents domestic terrorists. Here is another parallel. The Chinese Communist Party and the NSBA do not want parents to be part of the educational system. They want to keep the education system their own indoctrination mill,” adds Xi Van Fleet, a Loudoun County mother.
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The NSBA lists 30 reference articles in its letter and Moms for America President Kimberly Fletcher believes many of the articles listed do not prove NSBA’s assumption that some parents’ actions are comparable to domestic terrorists including an arrest at a school board meeting in Illinois.
“I happened to be at that school board meeting. Just a fluke. Our Vice President lives in Illinois. It was her school board meeting. She said hey, you are here do you want to come. So, I did. The man who was arrested at that school board meeting was arrested for no other reason whatsoever than the fact he wasn’t wearing a mask,"s said Fletcher.
After immense pressure across the nation, the NSBA apologized over the weekend but the group says that’s not good enough.
“We parents are not domestic terrorists. We parents need to be part of our children’s education. We parents want school boards to stop dividing our children and using them as pawns to pass their political ideology by race and gender,” says Patti Menders, a mom who lives in Loudoun County.
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Scott Smith, the father of a Loudoun County student who was assaulted inside a bathroom at Stone Bridge High, was also arrested at a June 22 school board meeting after a heated exchange. Smith told 7News he went to the meeting looking for answers after his daughter was attacked. The teen suspect was found guilty on all charges in the case.
Now Scott wants an apology from the NSBA who referenced him in the letter to Biden.
So far, the NSBA has not responded to our requests for comment on this morning’s protest.
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Scott Taylor will dig deeper into the controversy on this topic Thursday at 6 p.m.
