For more than a decade now, my hometown here in central Virginia has been fixated on getting national notoriety ever since the Yeardley Love case.
We’ve had marches with Nazis and fascists, we’ve melted down Civil War general statues, we’ve had the University of Virginia fight against antisemitism and then, five years later, defend antisemitism. We’ve marched against the firing of university presidents and marched in favor of firing university presidents.
Often for the same university president, ironically.
All the while, making sure that our friends at the national news networks in Washington, D.C., were ready to send a camera crew down to tell the world our most recent tale of woe.
So, it begs the question: now that a 37-year-old schoolteacher from Albemarle County, named Michael Swiney, is facing 20 charges of sexual misconduct involving elementary school students, where are FOX News and ABC and CNN these days?
Since some of them aren’t welcome in the White House press corps anymore, they should have time to come down to Charlottesville and cover the case of a “Watergate-style” cover-up that is embroiling the school division that surrounds this historic small city.
The reason is simple: Swiney was the school’s counselor for kids to talk to about sexual-orientation issues they were feeling. Questions about sexual identity as part of the school division’s diversity programs as it related to transgender issues, questions about students’ sexual identity … at an elementary school.
Can’t let the world find out that the liberal intelligentsia let THAT happen. They’ll lose their Marx & Engels Decoder Ring.
It is important to note that these are charges, and the accused deserves his day in court.
That, in a nutshell, is the cornerstone of the county’s circling of its wagons. The lack of transparency is defended under the premise that information that could come out about the investigation into the teacher’s supervisors and who else may have known about it would, in and of itself, create the image of guilt in the minds of potential jurors.
The obvious issue with this program is that a second- or third-grade student shouldn’t even be concerned with what his or her gender is, nor should it be a conversation he or she has with a school administrator instead of his or her parents.
Plus, it would make the proponents of the trans agenda look pretty bad.
So, is this an isolated case of one perv that snuck through the intake process?
I asked Gemini if there was any data it could find regarding how many of us might fall into the category of “minor-attracted persons.” (I can only imagine what the folks at Langley think of that search.) What I found was this crowdfunded study:
Published at the National Institutes of Health PubMed Central, researchers at the University of Kent evaluated 997 Anglophone men recruited via online crowdsourcing and found that 16.8% self-reported a sexual attraction or fantasy involving children under 15, while 23.1% reported some combination of sexual interest, offense proclivity, or offending behavior.
Do the math. A total of 2,821 people work for just the school division in question in Albemarle County, Virginia. How many work in your school division? Fairfax has 41,000.
This is why, from the drop of the green flag in this race, conservative voices have been saying that this is not a role for schools at all. The social engineering is outside of the realm of a school division that continues to backslide and has just announced that it is changing how it judges standardized learning to include alternate tracks that would allow more students to advance whether they knew how to read or write or do any arithmetic.
It’s time for schools to stop being social-engineering projects.
We understand that schools are one of the few pieces of society that are under direct control of the government, but examine the bollocks that the government has made of our public education system.
This is why, in Virginia, the homeschool and microschool movements continue to draw more and more students away from traditional public schools.
Asking schools to go back to being just schools again isn’t going to eliminate the problem of sexual misconduct or teachers who might fall under the category of minor-attracted persons, but, as we said at the onset of this trans movement, it takes away a lot of the opportunity.
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