This Thursday, the Fairfax County School Board is set to vote on controversial changes to the district’s sex education curriculum. The vote likely will include whether to start instruction on gender ideology in elementary school, as recommended by the district’s ideologically homogeneous Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee.
As a strategy, the district’s leadership is known for its questionable timing on controversial votes and notifications. Most recently, the superintendent, Michelle Reid, waited until 4:27 p.m. last Friday to inform parents that they would need to find babysitters on seven Monday afternoons next academic year due to increased allowances for teacher training. The date and time of the message were far from coincidence. Reid strategically sent the notification late in the afternoon at the end of a work week, after children were released from…
