CorpusRecord 210963

Crowds gather outside LCPS board meeting protesting

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Source
YouTube / WUSA9
Date
2021-09-28
Location
Washington County, MS
Material
Transcript
Extent
287 words · about 2 min
Collected
2026-06-26

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001also happening in virginia right now more controversy at the loudoun county school board meeting yeah the key issue continues to be the board's policy on transgender students it requires teachers of course to address students using the pronouns that student prefers well tonight there's another issue that has a lot of people fired up our time dempsey is at the lcps headquarters with more on that other issue and what we could see unfold there later tonight hey tom yeah expected to be a very heated environment here tonight lorenzo i have to keep my voice down because the voice the meeting just started a few minutes ago but uh due to all the security protocols we actually had to come in here early to get into the meeting and we needed to go through a checkpoint with security

002guards to have the the the cars all sniffed by a bomb sniffing dog again they've really established that heated environment that we're expecting with this meeting tonight this is all coming after very controversial last few months here in loudoun county with you know discussions over critical race theory discussions over transgender student policies and whether to refer to transgender students by their chosen pronouns and also controversial comments made by tanner cross a teacher for loudoun county who said he wouldn't refer to the transgender students by those chosen pronouns so again we are expecting this meeting to be very heated tonight guys um this is all coming after previous meetings have resulted in arrests of some folks and again very heated environment we're expecting with all of this but the school board actually changed up the rules

003so people could speak here tonight saying that you have to be a you know a loudoun county public schools student parent or teacher to speak at the meeting tonight own a business or be a resident of loudoun county so again we're expecting all those topics to come up during this meeting and we'll be keeping a close eye on it tonight guys live in loudoun county i'm tom dempsey wsa9 it'll be interesting to see what difference that new rule makes tom thank you

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