Michael Barone: Health and Education Elites Forced To Confess Error
The second apology came on Oct. 22 from the National School Boards Association for its Sept. 29 letter to President Joe Biden charging that parents protesting school board decisions should be investigated as possible "domestic terrorists."
It turns out that the NSBA had discussed the earlier letter with White House staffers before sending it. Three business days after its release, Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the FBI and U.S. attorneys to investigate violence at school board meetings.
The September letter was inspired by protests at school board meetings in Loudoun County, Virginia, some 40 miles west of Washington. One parent who charged that his daughter was assaulted was violently hauled out of the meeting, at which Superintendent Scott Ziegler assured the audience, "To my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms." He added, "the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist."
Ziegler lied. As radio station WTOP reported, Ziegler had emailed school board members on May 28 that a female student, the protesting parent's daughter, had been sexually assaulted in a girl's bathroom by a male student wearing a dress.
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