Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Chief of Staff Mark Smith is no longer employed by the school system, local news reported, an apparent casualty of the district&#8217;s handling of the bathroom rape first revealed by The Daily Wire.
A school board member told news channel <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-chief-of-staff-mark-smith-fired-sexual-assault-controversy-public-school-board">WJLA</a>, which first reported on the change, that “he had obligations under Title IX and they weren’t met. He was not a Title IX expert, but it was his job&#8230; Someone had to pay and it was him.” Title IX is a federal regulation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools.
WJLA cited the anonymous school board member after the district&#8217;s spokesman, Wayde Byard, hung up on its reporter twice when the reporter asked who the district&#8217;s current chief of staff was, the outlet reported.
The removal undercuts Superintendent Scott Ziegler&#8217;s initial <a href="https://www.lcps.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&amp;DomainID=1&amp;ModuleInstanceID=274904&amp;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=416164&amp;PageID=1">partial apology</a>, in which he blamed the federal government and said Title IX rules prevented it from doing more&#8211;possibly an attempt to hide behind politicization by alluding to Donald Trump&#8217;s previous education secretary. Ziegler said a main way the school system was learning from the incident was that it would lobby to change Title IX.
&#8220;It is important to know that Title IX directs how schools must investigate allegations of sexual harassment/assault and provides equal protection for both victims and the alleged perpetrators. Throughout these recent events, the Loudoun County Public Schools complied with our obligations under Title IX. However, we have found the process outlined under Title IX by the U.S. Department of Education to be insufficient in addressing issues at the K-12 level. We believe the process could be strengthened with some reforms,&#8221; he said.
In October, The Daily Wire asked Byard how that squares with language from the federal government&#8217;s Title IX enforcers, which seemed to make clear that far from blocking LCPS from protecting students from a rapist by taking action without waiting for a criminal conviction, it actually demanded that it do so. Byard did not respond to those questions then and did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.
LCPS has implied that the reason it moved the perpetrator of an alleged May 28 bathroom rape to a different school — where he was arrested for a different classroom assault on October 6 — was because Title IX required it to do its own investigation, which it could not do until after the police had completed their work. The assailant&#8217;s mother told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10156749/Mother-skirt-wearing-teen-raped-female-classmate-says-identifies-male.html">Daily Mail</a> that LCPS actually intended to return him to the same school when classes resumed in the fall, citing Title IX, until the court intervened.
The suspect was arrested in July, indicating that the police&#8217;s investigation stage was over and the district had had weeks after that to respond.
But even if that were not the case, the federal government has long been clear that schools do not need to wait until a criminal case is closed to conduct their own investigation. The Department of Education&#8217;s Office of Civil Rights has said, “Although a school division may need to delay temporarily the fact-finding portion of a Title IX investigation while the police are gathering evidence, once notified that the police department has completed its gathering of evidence (not the ultimate outcome of the investigation or the filing of any charges), the school division must promptly resume and complete its fact-finding for the Title IX investigation.” Title IX also requires that a school is “obligated to conclude a grievance process within a reasonably prompt time frame.”
Ian Prior, head of parent advocate group Fight For Schools, said on Twitter, &#8220;So @LCPSOfficial admits what we have been saying since day 1 &#8211; they violated Title IX. Now what about Scott Ziegler? Is he not the head of the organization?&#8221;
As The Daily Wire has previously reported, the other prong of Ziegler&#8217;s statement intended to regain the community&#8217;s trust &#8212; that the reason he falsely said that no sexual assaults had taken place in school bathrooms is that he misunderstood the question &#8212; was also factually dubious.
Ziegler said he thought the question to which he was responding, from school board member Beth Barts, referred only to &#8220;transgender or genderfluid students.&#8221; But that seems unlikely for two reasons. First, Barts immediately responded to his answer with a follow-up that made clear she was referring to any sexual assaults, wondering how his answer could be true when she knew of an incident of hazing on a boys&#8217; sports team. Second, the rapist did meet the definition of gender-fluid under all but the most pedantic definitions. He was wearing a blouse and skirt during the rape, and a photograph shows him wearing rainbow socks, standing in front of a gay pride flag, and wearing a necklace that says &#8220;kitten.&#8221;
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Here is a picture of the &#8220;not trans&#8221; 15 year old who committed multiple sexual assaults, including in the girls&#8217; bathroom, in Loudoun County, wearing a &#8220;kitten&#8221; choker with rainbow socks and standing in front of an array of LGBTQ flags. (via Daily Mail) <a href="https://t.co/bshqAwSWEN">pic.twitter.com/bshqAwSWEN</a>
— I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) <a href="https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1455608204897906688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Loudoun Chief Of Staff No Longer Employed After Rape Handling

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A Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools curriculum has students play &#8220;privilege&#8221; bingo, giving them privilege points if they are white, male, employed or &#8220;involved in extra curricular [sic] activities,&#8221; or &#8220;feel represented in the media.&#8221;
It also says one has &#8220;privilege&#8221; if they are a &#8220;Military Kid,&#8221; drawing shock from parents who pointed out that children of military members must move away from their friends constantly, not see one of their parents for months on end, potentially deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, and risk becoming orphans.
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Parents who complained received a note from Assistant Superintendent Douglas A. Tyson that said:
<blockquote>The screen shot you reference comes from an approved FCPS English Curriculum lesson that is centered around students selecting a &#8220;choice&#8221; test and examining in detail the author&#8217;s perspective on a wide-range [sic] of issues. Students are asked, in the lesson, to read critically and think critically about the author&#8217;s perspective on several fronts including the author&#8217;s privilege that may or may not be present in the work. Students are then asked independently and self reflectively to juxtapose their thoughts regarding any perceived privilege they think they may have and how they would potentially rewrite portions of the text. Students are not asked or required to report out their self-reflections. This lesson is an adept vehicle to push student thinking to challenge the author&#8217;s thoughts/conclusions and to sharpen their ability to critically read selected texts.</blockquote>
A spokeswoman for the district did not immediately return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Fairfax County, based near the Pentagon, has a large number of military families. It collects supplemental funding for educating military families, but many refused to turn in the form giving them the extra cash this year because of perceived derision of those serving their country or because of frustration with other failures of the school system, parents said.
In September, school board member Abrar Omeish, whose father was on the board of the mosque attended by 9/11 hijackers and hired as imam a top Al-Qaeda operative, forcefully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-board-member-abrar-omeish-whose-father-led-september-11-hijackers-mosque-opposes-resolution-honoring-victims">opposed a resolution honoring the victims</a> of the attacks on their 20th anniversary. A photo also showed her without her hand over her heart during the pledge of allegiance.
On his first day in office Saturday, new Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) issued an <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/eo/EO-1-Ending-the-Use-of-Inherently-Divisive-Concepts.pdf">executive order</a> that bans &#8220;inherently divisive concepts&#8221; that presume &#8220;that some students are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist, or oppressive, and that other students are victims. This denies our students the opportunity to gain important facts, core knowledge, formulate their own opinions, and to think for themselves. Our children deserve far better from their education than to be told what to think.&#8221;
The order only applies to state curriculum and actions from the Virginia Department of Education and does not dictate what individual school districts teach. But it also specifies that it is only the &#8220;first step on Day One,&#8221; and it casts treating people differently based on race as a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an indication that school districts who continue to promulgate such content could soon stand accused of violating the act.
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Fairfax Schools Tell Children Of Military Members That They Have ‘Privilege’

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Republican Virginia Gov.-Elect Glenn Youngkin will appoint Elizabeth Schultz&#8211;a crusading education reformer who, as a member of the Fairfax County School Board, relentlessly took on ten Democrat colleagues&#8211;to the role of Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction, The Daily Wire has learned.
After being booted from the Fairfax board in 2019 when the board became all-Democrat, Schultz took a job at the Trump administration’s Department of Education. After that, she joined Parents Defending Education, a group of self-styled “mama bears” standing up against indoctrination and school closures that has played a key role in the fight to excise politics from the classroom.
Schultz was first elected to the Fairfax board in 2010, hailing from Clifton, the county&#8217;s last remaining rural corner. She entered public service reluctantly after a quest to save her neighborhood elementary school, which the board shuttered abruptly in a process that she found littered with a lack of transparency.
She eventually became an education policy expert with a knack for wading deep into the weeds in order to work from within the system. On the Fairfax board, she helped manage a $3 billion budget, and called the teachers union to heel by forcing an end to a decades-long union-favored policy that shorted elementary schoolers education time by having a half-day every Monday. She also successfully worked to restore honors classes after a prior board had eliminated them.
Schultz, who was born in Richmond and grew up as a military brat, is also a mother of four who has experience navigating the special education system.
But she is best known for presciently warning, throughout the mid-2010s, of all of the educational problems that would later become obvious to the general populace. Though she was attacked by Democrats and ignored by even many Republicans who, at the time, were not paying attention to schools, Schultz fought for the school system to focus on core academics, to use objective data to evaluate efficacy, and to assign more weight to parental feedback.
She often did so with a combination of rigorous research and sarcastic wit, mercilessly ridiculing the Democrat board for its obsession with agendas like &#8220;menstrual equity&#8221;&#8211;a quest to restore tampons to elementary school bathrooms after they were removed, as she pointed out, because they were used primarily for pranks.
In October 2021, she returned as a citizen to speak before the board she once sat on, blasting its members before they cut off her mic as parents cheered for her.
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<blockquote>As a mom I&#8217;m here to tell you you have one job: provide education for the children of Fairfax County with the best degree of academic excellence possible. It is not to expose children to your political or ideological viewpoints. &#8230;
It is not to expose children to sexually explicit material in the classroom or the library. Politicizing the education of children is bad. Indoctrinating a child to look at each other as oppressor or oppressed&#8230; is bad. Porn for kids is bad!
You consistently demonstrate your hostility to parental concerns. You suppress, mock, or wholly ignore the voice of parents. &#8230;
You do not value diversity unless it is your approved and then compelled definition. You do not value inclusion; you pervert the very meaning by excluding parents who do not toe your ideological line. &#8230;
We the parents, we the people, are mad as hell and we&#8217;re not going to take it any more. We&#8217;re not going anywhere. For years on this board I fought to increase the visibility of what&#8217;s in our curriculum. I am telling you, stop peddling porn to our kids, it&#8217;s child abuse! Stop making children hate each other, it&#8217;s racist! Stop teaching children revisionist history, it&#8217;s lying!</blockquote>
While on the board, Schultz demanded that her peers focus on increasing math, science, and reading scores, rather than social justice initiatives, while also expressing support for investing in programs that she said could help promote achievement, such as universal pre-K.
“Elizabeth is passionate about effective education and public policy development which champions academic excellence for all students, respects parental rights and student data privacy, and encourages citizen engagement, transparency and accountability, and fiscally responsible limited government,” the Youngkin administration said.
“She has championed promoting civics and digital citizenship education, expanding cybersecurity and technical-readiness skills to protect private industry, systems, and critical infrastructure, and ensuring college, life, and work-readiness for students of all abilities,” it added.
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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia &#8212; The 14-year-old boy who raped a ninth-grader in a girls&#8217; bathroom while he wore a skirt and blouse was sentenced on Wednesday to residential treatment, as it emerged that he also allegedly attacked a third girl, and after the judge said his psycho-sexual evaluation was one of the most disturbing she has ever seen.
The boy, now 15, appeared with his hair in a bun and his ankles in chains, and apologized directly to the two girls that the court found he sexually assaulted in school. His name is being withheld by The Daily Wire due to his age.
But one of the victims said he would not be rehabilitated until he acknowledged that there was also a third girl he has assaulted. &#8220;I hope one day you tell them what you did to that girl,&#8221; she said. The judge said a report she reviewed as part of sentencing also noted the existence of a third victim.
The mother of the first victim said: &#8220;These horrific sexual assaults should have never occurred. There were people who could have turned it around years ago.&#8221;
Scott Smith, the father of that victim, told the court &#8220;this whole thing caused a huge division in our community &#8230; We were accused of lying about this sexual assault for political gain. That didn&#8217;t go over well with half of Loudoun County, who didn&#8217;t patronize our business&#8221; as national media painted him as an ignorant conservative bigot for being angry at a school board meeting.
But on Wednesday Judge Pamela Brooks said the assaults did occur, saying, &#8220;Over the years this court has read many psychosexual reports, and when I read yours, frankly, it scared me. It scared me for you, it scared me for society.&#8221;
The second victim had her mother read a statement, in which she asked &#8220;why me?&#8221; She said that she knew the assailant was wearing an ankle monitor when he arrived at her school as a transfer student, but gave him a chance anyway. She did not know that he was wearing it because he had been arrested for forcible sodomy in his previous school, and felt that he took advantage of her kindness.
Commonwealth Attorney Buta Biberaj appeared in court, but did not speak. The juvenile prosecutor who took the lead asked for the perpetrator to be placed on the sex offender registry, a more severe step than that requested by a juvenile parole officer. The judge said she had never ordered a juvenile onto the registry despite hearing numerous juvenile cases, but that &#8220;I am ordering you onto the sexual offender registry.&#8221;
Biberaj previously said the suspect was released from jail because he had no &#8220;history.&#8221; The suspect&#8217;s mother later told the Daily Mail that he had been busted sending naked pictures four years prior. The publication reported that police were aware of the incident at the time, but that charges were not pursued because the school district promised to handle it.
The Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) did not tell the school community when the May 2021 rape happened, and instead, sent out an email saying that if students noticed police on campus, they should rest assured that it was not because of anything that threatened student safety. Police logs show that police were dispatched to the school to deal with an angry parent: Smith, who was unsatisfied by how the school was handling the rape.
Soon after, the school board sought to pass a policy that would permit transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. To address concern by parents that this could cause a safety issue, Superintendent Scott Zeigler said definitively that there had been no bathroom sexual assaults in the Loudoun schools. Smith was in attendance at that meeting and became angry, and he was arrested for disorderly conduct. He was personally prosecuted by Biberaj, who ordinarily would not be involved in minor cases, and she sought jail time, which is also highly unusual for such cases.
The suspect was arrested but let out of jail with an ankle bracelet and transferred to another school, where he assaulted the second girl in a classroom.
Biberaj was elected in 2019 with the help of $850,000 from George Soros, ultimately winning 51% of the vote. Since then, Democratic county leaders have criticized her for going easy on criminals, saying women have particularly suffered as their abusers go unpunished.
The judge rebuffed the defense attorney for downplaying the rape by saying the two had previously had consensual sex&#8211;a justification also employed by the likes of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/loudoun-county-trans.html">New York Times</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to have it conveyed that saying yes one day does not mean yes every other day,&#8221; she said.
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The school district <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-loudoun-schools-did-not-record-multiple-alleged-sexual-assaults-over-a-period-of-years-despite-state-law-records-show">did not</a> report the May 2021 rape on statistics that are required, under state law, to be submitted to the state.
LCPS said it would conduct an independent investigation of how it handled the incident in order to put community concerns to rest. But on Wednesday, it was reported that the school system has completed the investigation but is keeping the result secret by citing attorney-client privilege.
The parent group Fight For Schools said that either the report needs to be released or the superintendent was lying when he called it an &#8220;independent&#8221; investigation, and said its real purpose may have been to prepare a defense to an investigation which incoming Attorney General Jason Miyares said he will launch. LCPS launched its probe one day after Miyares announced his.
In court, Smith told the judge, &#8220;I question some of the decisions of the school system and prosecuting office for allowing the second assault to happen.&#8221;
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Loudoun Rapist Sentenced, Put On Sex Offender Registry For Life

A purported student group called &#8220;Teens Take Charge&#8221; announced an action mirroring teachers&#8217; union demands, saying New York City students would walk out of school on Tuesday to protest the lack of a &#8220;remote&#8221; option for teachers and students.
The group said, &#8220;Our partners at Students Break the Silence, PRESS NY, MORE-UFT Caucus, Student Success Network, &amp; The YA-YA Network are organizing A STUDENT WALK-OUT!&#8221; MORE-UFT is a far-left faction of the United Federation of Teachers teachers union.
Thirty minutes later, Teens Take Charge sent a &#8220;corrected&#8221; announcement saying the walk-out was an organic movement by kids, not the list of special interest groups. &#8220;CORRECTION: The Student Walk Out is organized by a concerned group of New York City public school students, not any existing organization,&#8221; it said.
Thiviya Navarathnam, operations director for The Bell, a nonprofit behind the Teens Take Charge group, told The Daily Wire that &#8220;The original information on the partners was a miscommunication, pulled from this <a href="https://twitter.com/breaksilencenyc/status/1480285132628054023">tweet</a> from Students Break the Silence. However, our contacts at Students Break the Silence clarified after the email went out that the walk-out after is being organized by a group of students.&#8221;
MORE-UFT did not immediately return a request for comment on whether it had any role.
Teachers unions are increasingly alienated from parents and politicians of both parties as they seek to avoid showing up for work because of coronavirus fears. Remote learning has caused severe emotional problems and loss of learning, and it hits hardest for impoverished students who do not have parents who can stay home with them. President Joe Biden and his spokeswoman have said schools are not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-u-s-schools-are-more-than-equipped-to-remain-open-during-covid-19-surge">safe</a>.
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But in children, unions may have found a group willing to make demands that mirror their workplace negotiations &#8212; even if skipping school causes them to fall even further behind academically. The student protest is similar to an action by MORE-UFT, which <a href="https://twitter.com/MOREcaucusUFT/status/1479289856916344835">advertised</a> a &#8220;Rally for Safety&#8221; on Monday to &#8220;demand&#8221; &#8220;Remote until January 18th.&#8221;
In Chicago, Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot angrily blasted the teachers union after it told teachers to refuse to report to work last week, causing schools to be shuttered. &#8220;I think the only way to read it is the union trying to politicize the pandemic,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-chicago-schools-to-close-for-third-consecutive-day-as-teachers-union-fights-return-to-in-person-class">said</a>.
“They do it at the expense of our children,” she said. “They do it at the expense of our families. We know that when we were fully remote previously, 100,000 of our kids lost contact and would disengage from the system. We saw in the elementary schools the failure rate during remote learning triple from what it was. We saw the trauma and social emotional harm to students across our system.”
If teachers have encouraged kids to skip school, it would not be the first time that supposedly organic groups in New York City have accidentally admitted to being cut-outs for more entrenched special interests.
In 2020, Mariam Nunberg, an activist and professional education consultant, wrote in an email to leftist activist groups that NYC Department of Education officials had asked the groups to drown out a parents&#8217; group called PLACE which opposes the abolition of test-based admission to magnet schools. DOE could then cite the activist groups to say that it was merely responding to public opinion by abolishing the tests.
“DOE folks have reached out to many of these partners, asking our people to make more noise,” Nunberg <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/26/nyc-doe-wants-competitive-school-admissions-opposers-to-get-louder/">wrote</a>, before quickly adding for discretion saying “I’m writing to follow up with a request not to forward the full text of the email I sent, since it has come to my attention that it might be problematic for word to get out that the DOE is encouraging folks to make noise in response to PLACE.&#8221;
Nunberg&#8217;s <a href="https://medium.com/teens-take-charge/im-one-of-the-lucky-ones-8bcbfd80185">son</a> was a Teens Take Charge activist, despite attending one of the elite &#8220;screened schools&#8221; whose admissions process the activists view as racist.
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Whoops: Leftist ‘Teen’ Group Says Teachers Union Is Behind Protest Asking Kids To Skip School

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North Carolina is on blast from parents&#8217; groups after the state school board approved a $7 million federal grant called the Preschool Handicapped Grant to be used for &#8220;Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Early Childhood Classroom.&#8221;
&#8220;Preying on disabled 3 year old children &#8211; getting them to participate in a political movement, and to hate themselves based on skin color in the process, shows our public schools to be more morally corrupt than all others,&#8221; Sloan Rachmuth, president of the group Education First Alliance, <a href="https://www.edfirstnc.org//post/press-release-groups-oppose-nc-s-teaching-preschoolers-with-disabilies-to-deconstruct-whiteness">said</a> in a press release. “With this vote, North Carolina&#8217;s schools became the most radically divisive system in America.&#8221;
Deniers of the idea that critical race theory has inspired K-12 initiatives sometimes claim it is only in law schools&#8211;far from special-needs preschools.
The money for handicapped preschoolers ultimately came from the federal Department of Education&#8217;s Office of Special Education Programs. The grant went to the University of North Carolina Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.
Even before the current grant approval, pre-school teachers were offered an &#8220;Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Early Childhood Classroom&#8221; training credited to &#8220;a joint project of the NC Department of Public Instruction, Office of Early Learning and UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute,&#8221; according to screenshots published by Education First Alliance and other groups.
A slide says teachers should help preschoolers with &#8220;building racial identity&#8221; and &#8220;Encourage the children to question social, scientific, and historical facts. We want children to question whether information is true.&#8221;
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In a section titled &#8220;General Supervision of Children,&#8221; which governs &#8220;children&#8217;s health and safety,&#8221; a page with the same watermark says controlling a preschool class requires &#8220;understanding that &#8216;control&#8217; is based in white norms and is associated with white supremacist thought; it is appropriate to focus on social emotional teaching and learning.&#8221;
Training materials also say &#8220;whiteness affects everything we bring to our interactions inside and outside the classroom. When we use Clarifying Conversations we deconstruct whiteness.&#8221;
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North Carolina has a Republican-dominated legislature and its State Superintendent, Catherine Truitt, is also a Republican. Yet critical race theory has overtaken the state perhaps even more than most blue regions. That is in no small part because of the school of education at UNC. It is also because politicians are generally involved at the high-level policy stage, whereas the devil often resides in the details, which are often implemented by staff, consultants, and activists.
The state&#8217;s Republican lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson &#8212; who is black and strongly opposes critical race theory &#8212; has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/north-carolina-county-wants-teachers-fired-disciplined-if-they-undermine-constitution-bash-founders-say-americas-racist">done</a> the unglamorous work of delving into details to root it out, but others have merely given lip service to their opposition, with little follow-up.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51PtHP4f9Kc&amp;amp;t=5350s">Video</a> of a January 5 meeting of the state board of education, where the $7 million contract was approved, shows staff effortlessly taking control of the conversation and swatting away concerns that a school board member attempted to bring to the superintendent.
Board member Amy White raised concerns about the preschool grant, but she was not specific in her objections, and was deferential to staff, saying she received an email about how the program contains &#8220;critical race theory&#8221; but “I don’t know whether that was factual or not, but I’m bringing that to the table to ask whether or not that is true.&#8221;
Superintendent Truitt, who previously told a Republican group she <a href="https://www.ednc.org/2021-06-15-from-her-definition-of-critical-race-theory-to-bellyaching-teachers-superintendent-truitt-gives-her-view/">opposes</a> critical race theory, had stepped out of the meeting, so a staff member issued a vague response that seemed to say that the training session was not a work product of the grant &#8212; even though the grant would pay the same people to create more content on the same topic.
The superintendent rejoined the meeting and a staff member pointed her to White&#8217;s question.
White explained concerns that, &#8220;Some of the ideologies posted on their website [are] not aligned with the board&#8217;s commitment to really focus on equity, as opposed to anything aligned with critical race theory.&#8221; The comment suggested a politician confused by the jargon and word games used by entrenched insiders, since equity is the education industry&#8217;s word for critical race theory.
The superintendent said, &#8220;This is wholly separate from anything that they [UNC&#8217;s Institute] are doing&#8230; When we talk about equity and culturally responsive training, it is specific to preschool children with disabilities.&#8221; That seemed to miss the point that the objection was why disabled three-year olds were being subject to &#8220;culturally responsive training&#8221; at all.
After the exchange, the Institute erased the evidence from its website, according to Dr. Nancy Andersen, North Carolina leader of No Left Turn in Education, who had emailed the board with concerns. &#8220;Hiding this controversial material after questions from the public were raised revealed the corrupt and ideological intentions behind these trainings,&#8221; Andersen said in a statement.
She faulted Truitt for not coming armed with detailed knowledge necessary to poke holes in excuses by staff or the university, despite her having walked the superintendent through them.
&#8220;I showed the Superintendent document after document from these trainings and that she chose to defend using $7M for the divisive program rather than delaying the vote as she promised also speaks volumes about the incompetence of the education leadership in the state,&#8221; she said.
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A Red State Just Spent Money For Handicapped Pre-Schoolers On CRT Training

North Carolina

Jacob Lang, who was arrested for his role in the January 6, 2020 Capitol riot 10 days later and has remained in jail since, says he spent 200 days in solitary confinement, with 23 hours a day alone in a cell.
But now 40 of the January 6 defendants – all males – are housed together in a special “pod” at the D.C. jail, where the “environment is different from any other jail in America,” he says.
“I’m in the pod with 40 other patriot men, we’re hanging tough,” he told The Daily Wire in a November phone interview from jail. They sing the national anthem. “We do Bible studies, I lead a morning Bible study, another man leads an evening Bible study. Sometimes we have little rifts about people wanting to take plea deals, horrible six-year plea deals. We come together and uplift them.”
Lang is a previous New York congressional candidate and self-styled libertarian whose prior criminal record consists of “one misdemeanor charge from five years ago for some pot in the Hamptons,” he said.
While the defendants went into jail looking like normal people, many now look significantly stranger: The D.C. jail denies barbering services, including shaves, to unvaccinated inmates. That has meant many of the January 6 suspects haven’t shaved in months, which they argue leads to them attending court appearances looking like the Unabomber, causing potential prejudice in their cases.
They have also had visitors most inmates don’t: members of Congress including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX). “We’re being held on pre-trial detention because supposedly we’re so dangerous,” Lang remarked, yet they’ll let “some of the most powerful people in the world” stand next to us.
The charges against Lang, who was one of the first inmates in the pod, are also among the most severe of the group. “I have <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1364166/download">allegations</a> of eight alleged assaults on police officers,” he said.
An FBI <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1355866/download">affidavit</a> says a media photograph &#8220;shows what appears to be LANG in a crowd, holding a protective shield as other members of the crowd swing bats and batons at officers, as well as throw projectiles at them. LANG went on to retrieve a riot helmet with the letters “MPDC” from the ground and wear it for the duration of the video.&#8221; It says other photos &#8220;show what appears to be LANG carrying a protective shield and engaging with law enforcement.&#8221;
It said an Instagram post from the day showed a woman asking him &#8220;So what do you think happens next,&#8221; and him responding &#8220;Guns&#8230; That&#8217;s it. One word. The First Amendment didn&#8217;t work, we pull out the Second.&#8221;
Lang says he was saving lives from police brutality. He said he attempted to pull the body of Rosanne Boyland out of a Capitol tunnel after “police beat her on the ground and pushed a massive swarm of people on top of her.” Boyland died that day.
Another man present that day, Phillip Anderson, filed an <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/58955673/29/1/united-states-v-lang/">affidavit</a> with the court saying that Lang saved his life. Anderson said police were using &#8220;excessive force&#8221; against him and he could not breathe. He said he heard Lang warning the crowd, including officers, that people were being crushed. &#8220;Jake proceeded to save my life by pulling me out of the pile of people. If Jake was not present to help me, I would have died on January 6, 2021, and it would have been because of the actions that the police took,&#8221; Anderson, who is black, wrote.
Lang says the way January 6 suspects have been treated stands in sharp contrast to the treatment of criminals in Democrat-run cities, where “there’s a revolving door, people are being let out for robbery.”
One of his own lawyers, Marty Tankleff, spent 17 years in prison after a wrongful conviction for homicide that was later overturned, Lang said. “Marty walks into court in late September when I had my bond motion. He looks the judge in the eye and says &#8216;in 2000 I was charged with double homicide and I was let out on bond. My client is alleged to smash a baseball bat on a riot shield. Nobody got hurt. And he’s not allowed to be let out on bond?&#8217;”
It is also in contrast to the treatment of others who attended riots over the last two years, he said. “There was a protest outside the Department of Interior for climate change and there were these leftist activists throwing bike racks at cops, they were just given $50 violation tickets, loitering, disrupting the peace. When we get arrested for the same allegation, we’re stripped of everything. I haven’t had a visitation in 10 months,” he said.
He thinks other Americans may be increasingly able to relate to what he has gone through. “There’s FBI agents who have become an arm of the Democratic party. Look at what they’re doing to parents at school board meetings,” he said.
Lang says prosecutors “tried to offer me this thing with my plea deal, it&#8217;s called a debriefment. It’s like a gag deal. It’s not a plea deal, it’s the minimum sentencing guidelines, 10 years. They want to ask me anything about January 6 but I am not allowed to talk about it afterwards… Anything I tell them I’m not allowed to repeat.  So they’ll lock me away for a decade and I won’t be able to tell my story.”
“This story could actually be the opposite of kneeling on George Floyd,” he said. “An unarmed black man [Anderson] almost died at the hands of police brutality on the steps of the Capitol and he was saved by a white Jewish Trump supporter. Where’s that headline?”
“In that tunnel I had a little Mexican grandma to my left, a huge black guy to my right, an Asian lady behind me, and we were all in that tunnel screaming ‘USA, we love this country.’ We got beat down. I got shot in the foot with a rubber bullet, I had a shattered foot and had to be carried out of there,” he added.
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Jacob Lang

‘Different From Any Other Jail In America’: A January 6 Prisoner Speaks Out

January 6

Many schools are not resuming classes as the year begins, citing COVID-19, after spending some of the $130 billion schools received for reopening on Critical Race Theory-infused initiatives instead, a review of funding applications shows.
On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he told Americans that delivering $130 billion in supplementary funding to schools through his American Rescue Plan (ARP) would “provide schools the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2021/01/20/president-biden-announces-american-rescue-plan/">resources they need</a> to reopen safely.”
“We can [open schools] if we give school districts, communities, and states the clear guidance they need as well as the resources they will need,” he said.
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/08/965261743/biden-administration-proposes-130-billion-to-help-schools-reopen">NPR</a> blared: “Biden Administration Proposes $130 Billion To Help Schools Reopen.”
In March, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said “there’s no replacement for having kids in the classroom. We need to get our schools to re-open as quickly and as safely as possible. Now, my Republican colleagues have made a lot of noise about re-opening our schools, but they don’t want to dedicate any resources to actually getting it done.”
They got the money. Yet this month, schools in numerous districts will be <a href="https://info.burbio.com/school-tracker-update-latest/">closed</a>, citing an inability to deal with the Omicron variant, despite receiving money that could have gone towards mitigation, protection, and preventative measures. That, it turns out, could be in part due to a bait-and-switch, with money passed into law under the guise of public health being used for racial ideology instead.
In August, the Department of Education published <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/documents/coronavirus/lost-instructional-time.pdf">strategies</a> for using the money. “Rebuilding from COVID-19 is an opportunity,” the document said, for a “culture shift” and the “establishment of equitable practices… One example of how a district is using a performance assessment in a culturally and linguistically responsive way is the Chicago Public School’s Curriculum Equity Initiative.”
<a href="https://www.cps.edu/strategic-initiatives/moving-forward-together">Chicago</a> earmarked $32 million of ARP money to a “comprehensive, culturally responsive curriculum” developed “through the Curriculum Equity Initiative.” The union is voting Tuesday on whether to switch to remote learning.
<a href="https://mps.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/MPS-English/CFO/ESSER/ESSER-III-Booklet/ESSERIIIUpdatedProposedDraftBudgetDetail-revised10.12.21.pdf">Milwaukee</a> allocated $24 million of its ARP money to “Social Emotional Learning,” including $100,000 for “Anti-Racism and Bias Professional Development.” It will not be conducting classes in person until at least <a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/03/omicron-upends-return-to-us-schools-and-workplaces/">January 10</a>.
A review of the proposals submitted by states and approved by the federal government shows that their plans for supposed coronavirus money are littered with CRT-infused ideas. For example:
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/08/California-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">California</a> earmarked $1.5 billion to provide school districts with &#8220;training resources for classified, certificated, and administrative school staff in specified high-need topics, including accelerated learning, re-engaging students, restorative practices, and implicit bias training.&#8221;
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/06/New-York-ARP-ESSER-Application.pdf">New York’s</a> relief plan said it believed “opportunities to learn are greatly expanded for all students when strong principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are present and operative in a district or school.” It referenced teaching students about “privilege” and “their identities.”
This filtered down into local school districts. The <a href="https://www.corningareaschools.com/docs/district/Corning%20ARP%20ESSER-2%20Full%20Application%20APPROVED.pdf">Corning-Painted Post School District</a> said it would use ARP money to pay the Equity Collaborative, a consultant best known for its work in Loudoun County, Virginia, and which preaches the &#8220;5 tenets of critical race theory.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.buffaloschools.org/cms/lib/NY01913551/Centricity/Domain/10232/SUBMITTED%20ARP_ESSER%20Application.pdf">Buffalo Public Schools</a> said it would spend $1.2 million of the money on its Office of Culturally &amp; Linguistically Responsive Initiatives, including hiring staff for &#8220;anti-racism&#8221; and for &#8220;emancipation curriculum materials.&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/buffalo-public-school-teaching-elementary-students-to-question-nuclear-family-as-part-of-blm-integrated-curriculum-tucker">Fox</a> reported in 2020 that the emancipation curriculum advocates to elementary school students “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics” in favor of “Black Villages.”
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/06/Michigan-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">Michigan</a> promoted using an “equity lens” to apportion money, including spending it on “professional development for all staff members in social emotional learning, trauma-informed care, and implicit bias.”
It said it would spend it on a Culturally Responsive School Leadership Institute Academies (CRSLIA) program that “challenges Whiteness and hegemonic epistemologies in school.”
Michigan schools that will open the 2022 year &#8212; the third year of coronavirus &#8212; online <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2022/01/03/some-michigan-schools-expecting-omicron-surge-go-online-cancel-classes/">include</a> Detroit, Ann Arbor, Oak Park, Lansing, Pontiac, and Southfield.
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/09/Virginia-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">Virginia</a> plans to spend money on a “Road Map to Equity,&#8221; which draws from <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/edequityva/navigating-equity-book.pdf">Ibram Kendi</a>.
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/06/Washington-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">Washington state</a> will allocate ARP funds with a “lens of educational equity.”
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/07/Masschusetts-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan-Final.pdf">Massachusetts</a> said it would hire race consultants like the Kaleidoscope Collective for Learning to “engag[e] in robust agency-wide anti-racism training” and use “a portion of the ARP ESSER funds to…create a culturally responsive, anti-racist and welcoming environment” in schools.
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/08/Minnesota-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">Minnesota</a> said it would use the money not to just to address COVID, but also “racial stressors,” “social inequities,” and “gender identity.”
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/06/Oregon-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">Oregon</a> said bluntly that it has “incorporated an equity informed, antiracist stance and anti-oppressive stance throughout this application and intends to continue this practice as we implement the programs described in this application.”
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/07/Nevada-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan.pdf">Nevada</a> said it would spend ARP funding on “Equity and diversity training and professional development for school staff,” including $380,000 for “restorative justice/practices” trainers.
<a href="https://www.washoeschools.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=43366&amp;dataid=56409&amp;FileName=ARP%20ESSER%20III%20Use%20of%20Funds%20Plan%20%20FINAL.pdf">Washoe County</a> said it would use ARP funding to hire an “Equity and Diversity Specialist.”
<a href="https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/07/Rhode-Island-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan-Final.pdf">Rhode Island</a> said it would “Center all actions from an orientation of cultural responsiveness and antiracism that promotes SEL and wellness” and “address…the deep systemic inequities that existed” before the pandemic.
Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1478457496104837130">said</a> the Omicron variant was not a reason to close schools, and that we &#8220;I believe that school should remain open. They have what they need because of the American Rescue Plan&#8230;. we provided the states with $130 billion with a B, to specifically keep our students safe and keep schools open. Funding for ventilation&#8230;&#8221;
But progressive activists have made no secret that the bill was not actually written that way. The money is spread over five years, indicating that it was not only intended to directly address coronavirus. In April, the New York Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/opinion/American-rescue-plan-kids-lead-use-money-wisely.html">op-ed</a> headlined, &#8220;A Progressive Vision Is Possible if We Spend Money Thoughtfully Now.&#8221; It said the APS funds &#8220;actually have fewer strings attached than the smaller, parallel funds in the 2009 bill which we helped administer under the Obama administration,&#8221; and that there was nothing stopping them from being used to &#8220;address racial and economic inequity.&#8221;
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Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Climate Of Anxiety And Changing Routines In America

Schools Got $130B To Re-Open. Some Of It Went To CRT. Now Many Are Closed.

Critical Race Theory

Multiple high schools are encouraging their students to apply for a “scholarship” by sending their name, phone number, and physical and email addresses to a doctor who surrendered his medical license after being repeatedly accused of meeting young aspiring medical professionals online and tricking them into filming porn that he sold or posted to shame them.
In May and June, two university students separately sued Philip T. Sobash, an Arkansas doctor, saying he is &#8220;a serial sexual predator who convinces unwitting young women into sending nude images to him and then posts the images with his victims’ names and other personal identifying information onto notorious websites, inciting others to anonymously harass and attack his victims. He sells the images for personal gain. But, more than that, he enjoys harming his victims.&#8221;
On August 5, the Arkansas medical board forwarded information about Sobash to the FBI, &#8220;encouraged the physician to utilize a chaperone at all times when seeing patients,&#8221; and ordered him to come before the board in October, according to medical board meeting minutes. On October 7, the board &#8220;unanimously voted to accept the surrender of Dr. Sobash&#8217;s Arkansas medical licenses in lieu of continuing with the investigative process,&#8221; according to <a href="http://www.armedicalboard.org/Public/verify/results.aspx?strPHIDNO=ASMB218532">board records</a>.
Lawsuits say Sobash sometimes sent small amounts of money, such as $2,000, to his victims through Venmo around the time they sent photos.
Now, Sobash has set up a <a href="https://archive.md/uQZpw">scholarship fund</a> that encourages high school and college students to personally contact him in the hopes that they will be the winner of his “scholarship”: a payment of $1,000 awarded to one student.
Numerous high schools and colleges promoted the opportunity. <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/nXNJy">Fort Vancouver High School</a> in Vancouver, Washington, for example, instructed high schoolers &#8220;with an interest in becoming a medical doctor&#8221; to:
<blockquote>Please email the following information along with your essay (in .doc format) to drsobash@drphilipsobashscholarship.com:
Full name
Phone number
Bio
Address
Email Aaddress [sic]
Projected graduation date
School currently attending
Cumulative GPA</blockquote>
A sampling of the many other high schools promoting the scholarship include <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/Hk94K">Pearl River</a> High School in New York, the <a href="https://archive.md/wip/xlKPN">North Ridgeville</a> City Schools in Ohio, the <a href="https://archive.md/wip/DbRNA">Prarie du Chien</a> Area School District in Wisconsin,  the <a href="https://archive.md/wip/jmq3L">Starmont</a> Community School District in Iowa, the <a href="https://archive.md/wip/nCTuC">Vinton County</a>, Ohio schools, and Alfred Ely Beach High School in <a href="https://archive.md/ibbh9">Savannah</a>, Georgia.
The scholarship website was registered on July 2, according to domain records. The site says the “deadline to apply for the scholarship is December 16, 2021” and the “Dr. Philip Sobash Scholarship winner will be announced on January 16, 2022.” It says he wants to &#8220;give back to the future medical doctors of America.&#8221;
The scholarships were posted by high schools after the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/prominent-young-doctor-ran-made-to-order-revenge-porn-scheme-lawsuit/">New York Post</a> wrote about one of the lawsuits against Sobash in May, which meant his background was easily locatable on Google at the time.
<h4>Louisiana</h4>
On June 30, a graduate student in her early 20s in Louisiana filed a federal lawsuit saying she met Sobash online and he would ask her to send him pictures engaging in specific sexual acts, which she did based on promises they were for his eyes only. She later learned that the pictures were being posted online and that he was engaging in &#8220;made-to-order&#8221; pornography for paying customers, the lawsuit said.
&#8220;Dr. Sobash was receiving requests for particular scenarios from his &#8216;customers,&#8217; and he would then act as the producer of these pornographic images, made for commercial gain, and then he would distribute them to his customers&#8230; Jane Doe was not interested in being a commercial porn actress and was instead pursuing a career in medicine,&#8221; it said.
&#8220;On information and belief, Dr. Sobash has multiple other victims, some of whom are underage,&#8221; it added.
&#8220;Defendant has represented himself as an upstanding citizen and had gained Jane Doe’s trust over a period of time,&#8221; it said. &#8220;Jane Doe confronted Defendant because he was the only person to whom she had sent any of the photographs. Defendant lied and claimed he had been hacked.&#8221;
On July 22 the woman asked the court to drop her case &#8220;with prejudice,&#8221; which often signals that an out-of-court settlement has been reached.
<h4>California</h4>
On May 28, another woman filed suit in federal court in California, saying that in 2018, when she was a 21-year old university student interested in pursuing a career in nursing, Sobash met her online and convinced her to send him nude photos on the promise he would keep them private.
Sobash &#8220;would send her props like sex toys and nursing machines to photograph herself with and then he would direct her. Jane Doe had developed trust with Dr. Sobash and would usually indulge his fetishes,&#8221; it said.
&#8220;On or about February 2019, Jane Doe received a direct message on Instagram from an unknown person who sent her a link to a Reddit forum where Defendant had published and commercially sold sexually explicit photographs of Jane Doe under the username &#8216;innocent t&#8211;s,&#8217;” it continued.
That woman also withdrew her suit with prejudice on June 17.
<h4>Michigan</h4>
In April 2017, a third woman from Michigan sued Sobash, then a South Carolina resident, for similar alleged behavior. The suit said Sobash struck up an online relationship with the woman, solicited nude photographs, then caused them to be published online on &#8220;multiple websites&#8211;some of which are notorious revenge pornography websites.&#8221; She was 21 or 22 when that online relationship allegedly began in 2015, and was a nurse by the time she filed suit.
&#8220;A number of the websites upon which Plaintiff&#8217;s nude photographs and videos are published note that Plaintiff attended Oakland University, resides in the State of Michigan, and is a nurse who works at a hospital in the State of Michigan. Said identifiers were intentionally published with Plaintiff&#8217;s nude photographs and videos so that it would be easier for third-parties to harass Plaintiff,&#8221; the suit said.
&#8220;Third-parties who view the content on revenge pornography websites often post offensively despicable remarks about victims in the public comment sections, and it is very common for said third-parties to sadistically forward the nude photographs and videos to the family, friends, and the employers of the revenge pornography victims,&#8221; it continued.
The suit said Sobash &#8220;ignored Plaintiff&#8217;s desperate pleas&#8221; to remove the images. In June 2017, that woman agreed to withdraw the suit with prejudice as well, according to federal court records.
<h4>&#8216;Tried to fly me out to have sex with him at 16&#8217;</h4>
The most recent lawsuit says “Defendant Phillip [sic] T. Sobash, MD resides in Batesville, Arkansas where he practices internal medicine at White River Health System, and on information and belief, also maintains a residence in Charleston, South Carolina.”
In October 2020, White River posted a picture of Sobash on its Instagram, and most of the comments were about his alleged sexual behavior.
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&#8220;[T]his is the doctor PHILIP sobash that had been selling my naked photos and videos all over the internet,&#8221; one woman commented below it in June.
Another woman, from Tennessee, commented on the hospital&#8217;s Instagram post: &#8220;he tried to fly me out to have sex with him at 16! had to get fbi involved bc he posted nude pics &amp; vids of me at 15!! bc i wouldn’t go see him. not to mention, with ALL my personal info. i’m 20 now &amp; still receive death threats, he’s ruined my life forever.&#8221; That woman did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
White River still lists Sobash among its <a href="https://www.whiteriverhealthsystem.com/internal-medicine-residency#currentresident">residents</a> on its website. Multiple hospital officials did not return requests for information about Sobash&#8217;s employment status from The Daily Wire. Instead, a voicemail left for Internal Medicine Program Director Gilbert Roy Kamoga was responded to by a man who said he was a paralegal named Mike who worked for Sobash&#8217;s attorney and was responding on Sobash&#8217;s behalf.
He blamed &#8220;feminists&#8221; and said the lawsuits had been &#8220;settled.&#8221; He declined to characterize Sobash&#8217;s employment status and did not provide any evidence contradicting the medical board documents showing that his license was surrendered.
The phone number from which &#8220;Mike&#8221; called is registered to Francis Santa, a <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2011-08-10-fl-francis-santa-plea-20110808-story.html">convicted fraudster</a> who runs a firm called <a href="https://www.businessimagelift.com/copy-of-about">Business Image Lift</a>, which says it uses &#8220;a proprietary method&#8221; to remove negative information about its clients from the internet.
<h4>School responses</h4>
Craig Daughtry, the principal of Alfred Ely Beach High School, and Kurt Hetager, communications director for the Savannah-Chatham County (Georgia) Public School System, of which the school is a part, did not respond to an email whose subject line was &#8220;Urgent media request &#8211; school website directing students to contact alleged pornographer.&#8221; The school is still <a href="https://www.sccpss.com/schools/beach/Pages/Dr,-Philip-Sobash-Scholarship.aspx">advertising</a> the scholarship.
North Ridgeville did not return a request for comment.
Vancouver Public Schools said &#8220;the scholarship has been pulled from our websites. All scholarship opportunities include the following disclaimer: This program is not sponsored by Vancouver Public Schools. Approval to distribute flyers is a community service and does not imply endorsement.&#8221; It added that its &#8220;scholarship vetting process includes&#8230; Verifying scholarship sponsor is legitimate (in this case, the doctor&#8217;s credentials were verified on <a href="https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-philip-sobash-aztjcih987">HealthGrade</a>).&#8221;
&#8220;I will have members of my secondary staff investigate these allegations and determine if the scholarship information will remain posted or not,&#8221; Gary Bena, the superintendent of Starmont, said.
Pearl River High School said &#8220;Upon learning of the allegations, the Pearl River School District terminated this scholarship opportunity.&#8221;
In addition to the scholarship program, on October 26, weeks after surrendering his medical license, Sobash also announced a &#8220;mentorship for current students.&#8221; A <a href="https://apnews.com/press-release/prcom/medical-schools-b7236c3bbf0a93a3b3803843f32edcd3">press release</a>, which lists Sobash as the point of contact, quotes a student saying Sobash &#8220;gives his best to groom and encourage his students.&#8221;
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A nonpartisan academic clearinghouse for government statistics has removed data on what happens to minors who cross the border illegally because it has determined the data is “too faulty to be trusted” and says the Biden administration has ignored its warnings about flaws.
The disappearance of 50,000 asylum files allowed the Biden administration to “falsely report that its asylum backlog had been reduced this past year when in fact it had markedly grown,&#8221; the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which is affiliated with Syracuse University, <a href="https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/669/">said</a> Thursday.
This and other problems with the data mean that Americans cannot know how — or if — the Biden administration is dealing with the unprecedented deluge of illegal immigrants.
“TRAC has concluded that these flaws, as detailed below, are so serious that the resulting statistics based on these data are not an accurate or reliable indicator of the quantity or characteristics of juvenile cases currently being handled by the Immigration Court,” it said. “The public should be increasingly troubled by the indifference that the Immigration Courts have shown to these issues and should push for improved transparency and accountability.”
The processing of immigrants facing deportation is administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), run by David Neal, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. On October 15, TRAC wrote to Neal pointing out that the data was inaccurate, but the office did not respond to the letter and &#8220;subsequently published its juvenile tables&#8230; without correcting its methodology,&#8221; TRAC said.
TRAC receives a &#8220;juvenile history&#8221; file purporting to list all underage illegal immigrants. But when it cross-referenced it with a list of court cases where families were seeking asylum, it found that nearly nine out of ten children in those families were missing from the list. When it compared it with court dockets from courts that solely hear cases of unaccompanied minors, it found that 29% of the migrants who came before that court were not listed on the juvenile history file, meaning the juvenile history file is incomplete.
Even the ages on the juvenile file did not make sense. More than a third of people in the juvenile history file were actually adults &#8220;at the time their NTA was issued.&#8221;
Since by definition undocumented immigrants may have little documentation, and those who are classified as under 18 are more likely to get to stay in the country, there is a strong incentive for migrants to lie about their age. For example, in October a 24-year old Honduran named Yery Noel Medina Ulloa was charged with murder in Florida after telling U.S. border authorities in Texas that he was 17, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/illegal-immigrant-who-posed-as-minor-while-crossing-border-charged-with-murder/">found</a>.
To understand discrepancies in the juvenile classification, TRAC asked EOIR if it was using any outside datasets to confirm age, and it said it was not.
It realized that some asylum applications were going missing by comparing the files it obtained periodically from the government.  “When compared case-by-case, record-by-record, with the previous month&#8217;s data dump TRAC received, we find that records just disappear without explanation&#8230; TRAC has repeatedly reached out to the agency but has not received any satisfactory explanation,” it said.
“A number of these asylum cases continue to disappear each month,&#8221; it added, noting EOIR’s “refusal” to address the issue.
A third issue is a “misleading” way of counting immigration cases that has been in place since late 2018 and which makes the immigration backlog numbers look lower than they are, it said.
“Rather than reporting rates based on those cases where the judge decided the merits of the immigrant&#8217;s asylum claims, the agency now includes all cases where the asylum application was closed on bases apart from its merits,” it <a href="https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asylumbl/about_data.html">said</a>. However, “Given immigration law&#8217;s complexity, the asylum application may be only one among several relief applications filed by the individual, and numerous other alternative grounds can be considered by the Court which allow the individual to be legally entitled to remain in the U.S. Thus, EOIR&#8217;s new asylum tabulations present a very misleading picture of whether the asylum seeker was ultimately successful in his or her bid to remain in this country.”
&#8220;Government agencies should be transparent and accountable to the American public—but this is difficult if they don&#8217;t collect reliable information on what they are actually doing. The Immigration Court&#8217;s failure to respond to or address TRAC&#8217;s findings of significant data quality issues regarding minors is particularly concerning given the highly sensitive nature of children facing deportation,” the academic group said.
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Hunter Biden’s therapist and confidant, Dr. Keith Ablow, repeatedly made allusions to Joe Biden having struggled with dementia, according to materials on Hunter’s laptop reported in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X/">The Laptop From Hell</a>, a new book by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.
In January 2019, Ablow offered to provide a tongue-in-cheek endorsement for a Joe Biden presidential campaign: “‘Any man who can triumph over dementia is a giant. Think what he could do for our nation’s needed recovery.’ Dr Keith Ablow.”
“Perhaps he can help us remember all we intended to be as a people since he can now remember his address,” the mock endorsement continued.
Ablow was close to Hunter and also served as his onetime landlord, the book says. In February 2019, Ablow and Hunter discussed hosting a podcast together, with Hunter texting: “Dad is our first guest.”
Ablow responded: “Does he recall details tho, with the dementia and all.”
Hunter retorted: “Not much these days but since it’s all fake news anyway I don’t see the problem.”
The book says: &#8220;Reached at his Massachusetts office, Ablow declined to comment, but he once diagnosed then-Vice President Biden as having &#8216;early onset dementia&#8217; during a 2012 appearance on Fox News, so that background may underpin the banter.&#8221;
In February 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Ablow’s office. “Ablow was never charged over the raid, but agents seized a second laptop belonging to Hunter that they found locked in a safe in the basement. Hunter had left it behind the previous February, and just as he had done in Delaware, he ignored repeated messages to pick it up,” the book says.
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-55-believe-that-biden-potentially-has-early-stages-of-dementia">poll</a> from June 2020, a few months before the election, found that 55% of likely voters believed Biden &#8220;is in the early stages of dementia.&#8221; That same month, Joe Concha, a reporter for The Hill, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-reporter-says-democrats-quietly-admit-biden-lacks-mental-acuity">said</a> “A lot of Democrats will tell you, at least privately, that he does not have the mental acuity that he even had a couple of years ago.&#8221;
Biden rarely held press conferences during the campaign. At 79, Biden is now the oldest U.S. president in history. His term has been marked by various verbal gaffes in which he appears to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/opinion-its-time-to-demand-mental-health-testing-for-politicians">lose his train of thought</a>.
On <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/9-viral-forgetful-joe-moments-names-dates-and-the-pledge-of-allegiance">multiple occasions</a> over the last several years, he has seemed to forget Barack Obama&#8217;s name, and in October 2020 apparently could not recall the name of Mitt Romney, saying &#8220;I got in trouble when we were running against that senator who was a Mormon, the governor.&#8221;
In March 2021 Biden appeared to forget his Secretary of Defense&#8217;s name.
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