Category: Loudoun County, VA

Podcast Episode 14: Government Overreach, The Gender Pronoun Debate & How They Connect

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Guest speaker Thomas Black lives in Leesburg, Virginia and is a frequent contributor to The MoCo Conservative blog. Topics discussed on today’s podcast include:

  1. Loudoun County Public Schools’ new revision for preferred pronouns and Thomas’ response in the Loudoun Times-Mirror;
  2. Parental involvement and the government’s perceived role in raising children; and
  3. What does public education’s future look like in Loudoun County and the DC Metro Area? 

Recorded January 13, 2021

Podcast Episode 13: The Enemy Always Gets A Vote, So What’s Next For The Republic?

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Guest speaker Marc King of Germantown, Maryland is a frequent contributor to The MoCo Conservative blog. Marc ran for election in 2018 to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent District 15. He is a career officer of U.S. Army and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Among his many awards and decorations, Marc holds a combat infantryman’s badge and has credit for two combat tours during his career.

Topics discussed on today’s podcast include:

  1. Organizing a 1776-era militia is not feasible; what options do we have?
  2. Will the GOP need to completely dissolve in order to herald in a new political party, ready to embrace all freedom-loving patriots?
  3. What does the future hold for the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America?

Recorded December 29, 2020

Podcast Episode 12: Consistency In Conservatism: Will It Continue To Exist After Trump?

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Guest speaker Thomas Black lives in Leesburg, Virginia and is a frequent contributor to The MoCo Conservative blog. Topics discussed on today’s podcast include:

  1. Addressing a dearth of consistent, conservative principles amongst elected officials;
  2. Why the approach of strawman arguments during an election fails to address underlying issues on the local and national level; and 
  3. What the future elections may look like, with predictions.

Recorded December 22, 2020

Ohneiser: Being Educated Means Actually Paying Attention

Bob Ohneiser, Esq., lives in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Over my eight years representing the Broadrun District on the Loudoun County School Board there were many issues to learn about and participate in resolving. As a practicing lawyer with three children in LCPS [Loudoun County Public Schools] I felt the pressure to deeply understand issues before voting.

What I unfortunately learned over that time and have seen even more dramatically since then is how little school board members pay attention to details and logic.

It seems more like a positive head shaking contest whenever the Superintendent speaks instead of performing a check and balance function as required under state law.

Here are some examples which readers can consider:

  1. Statute 22.1-79 specifically mandates school boards operate under an utmost efficient manner, yet the current school board hasn’t even asked what is not being spent currently as most of the schools have been closed for seven months.
  2. With the power of criminal enforcement LCPS can mandate parents to bring their children into the school system for universal, “almost free” education, yet they don’t think twice about the conflict caused by expelling a student or charging $100.00/student per sport students choose to participate in.
  3. Parents are considered crucial in supporting school budget approvals, yet the system stubbornly refuses to allow parents to have meaningful input into staff performance considerations.
  4. Knowing all property owners in the County pay to support the school system the school board still acts as if they are the union representatives for the staff, as services which could be easily provided at no extra cost to home schoolers are denied.
  5. Almost all school board members “talk” about how terrible it would be if bullying was occurring, yet they refuse to ask the Superintendent for a report showing evidence of such bullying, including what was done to mitigate it.
  6. Then there is the real estate development quagmire. School Board members know of the turmoil school boundary changes cause yet they refuse to demand all schools within the catchment area for attending the new school be reviewed for expansion prior to the hearings.

Does the real estate development community own everyone in this county? 

References:

  1. https://law.justia.com/codes/virginia/2014/title-22.1/