Laura Morris was a Loudon County Public Schools teacher until August 10, when she resigned in a powerful speech denouncing the divisive policies imposed on teachers and students in the district. At Tuesday’s board meeting, she highlighted their “highly-politicized agendas” being forced on students as her breaking point.
Ms. Morris was a 4th-grade teacher who said she was excited to learn she would be moving up with her class and teaching them in 5th grade for the upcoming school year. She said the district training sessions she was forced to participate in coupled with the new policies regarding transgender students being allowed to choose a bathroom outside their biological sex.
I’m speaking with parents at the @LCPSOfficial school board meeting. They’re being forced to wait outside in a thunderstorm as the board votes whether to adopt a policy that will allow biological boys in girls’ bathrooms and vise versa.@DeAngelisCorey pic.twitter.com/SOy28lxrFr
— Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) August 10, 2021
As a Christian, Laura Morris said the board’s policies and “political ideologies that do not square with who [she is] as a believer in Christ.”
During one of her latest social justice training sessions, Morris said that she was informed that “White, Christian able-bodied females currently have the power in our schools.” Morris said that the speaker told the group that “this has to change.”
“Clearly, you’ve made your point. You no longer value me or many other teachers you’ve employed in this county,” Morris told the board.
5th grade teacher Laura Morris took a stand and quit at the #loudouncounty school board meeting rather than continue to peddle the divisive agenda the board is pushing.
Too bad the woke authoritarians on the school board weren't the ones quitting.pic.twitter.com/tLySVJcCpJ
— Ian Prior (@iandprior) August 11, 2021
She began to get emotional as she started the next part of her speech. “So, since my contract outlines the power that you have over my employment in Loudon County Public Schools, I thought it necessary to resign in front of you.”
In her emotional plea for reason, she said she knew it was time to leave the district that no longer valued her because she was born white and chose to be a Christian. Morris told the board, “I quit your policies, I quit your training, and I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized agendas to our most vulnerable constituents – children.”
As Morris finished her speech resigning in front of the board, the school board cut her mic off. Toward the end of the viral video, you see Morris explaining that she will find employment elsewhere. While Morris encouraged other teachers and parents to teach the board a lesson by leaving public schools and “flooding private schools,” the board cut her mic.
Conservative parents understand why Loudon County cut this teacher’s mic, and her voice was stopped. Keep fighting. We are winning.
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