Officials at Virginia’s Montgomery County Public Schools blocked a woman from being a teacher despite qualifying for the job once they found out she was a Christian.
Lindsay Rich had applied to be a substitute teacher for her school district, but the local school board refused to allow her application to be submitted.
“I was absolutely shocked when the school board violated its own policy by taking action in closed session to strike my name from the personnel list before coming out in open session to vote,” Rich told the Daily Signal.
Rich had run for that same school board, but narrowly lost the election.
“I believe the school board members removed me [as a substitute teacher] for the same reason many attacked me during my campaign,” she added.
During Rich’s campaign, a Virginia Tech official responsible for DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—attacked her and a fellow school board candidate for supporting “Model Policies on Ensuring Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students” championed by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican.
These policies require parental involvement in any school encouragement of a child’s transgender identity and designate bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams by biological sex rather than claimed gender identity. Montgomery County’s school board previously adopted pro-transgender standards developed under Youngkin’s Democratic predecessor, Gov. Ralph Northam.
“I support Governor Youngkin’s commonsense policies that base bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports on biological sex—not gender identity—which is also tied to my religious beliefs that God created male and female,” Rich told The Daily Signal.
“I have sat at the last two [school board] meetings until close to midnight waiting on an explanation and will continue to do so until I get answers,” Rich added in a text. “I won’t be pushed out of my children’s schools; they say there is room for ALL in MCPS, which includes conservative Christians like me.”
Ruch had gained approval for her application after completing the required training courses, but found her name to have been eliminated from the process. From internal information obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, it appeared that school board president Bernard Bragen himself has acted to put a ban on Rich’s application.
This is how out anti-American, anti-Christian, and godless school systems work. And don’t think this only happens in left-wing communities like those in Virginia, New York, Illinois, or California. It is happening in even the deepest red states.
Our miseducational system universally works on a left-wing agenda no matter what parents or kids want or need. It is about the left-wing agenda, not “education.”
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