Reagan Reese on December 9, 2022
Several parents are arguing that a Virginia school’s student ambassador program created to fight systemic racism is discriminating against students on the basis of race, according to Court House News.
While white students make up nearly 45% of the school, just 17% of the student ambassador program is comprised of white students, CourtHouse News reported.
Loudoun County school board’s attorney Andrew Selman argued that the parents’ students did not show interest in the club and were therefore not discriminated against, CourtHouse News reported.
The student ambassador program also has an anonymous bias reporting application for students to submit incidents of racial bias without being identified which has a “chilling effect” on free speech, U.S. Circuit Judge Paul V. Niemeyer stated according to CourtHouse News.
“When you invite student-on-student snitching or student-on-student ratting, isn’t that an obvious chilling effect?” Niemeyer said at the hearing.
The hearing comes after a federal judge originally dismissed the case in January 2022, arguing that students were not harmed by the application standards of the club.
Loudoun County School Board and the parent’s attorney Daniel Suhr did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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