Folks, yes, I know, there’s been a long-running urban legend that public schools (always public schools, folks; private schools would NEVER do this, oh no) take girls to get abortions during the school day without the parents’ knowledge or consent. The Fairfax County, VA school system is being investigated because of reports that this exact thing happened, and likely more than once.
If it’s true, here’s what probably happened: The student was pregnant by a teacher or other staff member, and they did this to try and cover it up.
And what actually kicked off the investigation is that the school district may have paid for them! I’m surprised this isn’t a bigger story.
Currently, there seem to be only vague allegations: the story in the OP doesn’t even provide information about the “published report” that supposedly sparked the investigation (kind of ninja’d by bobot!). I don’t think this is news-worthy at all as it currently stands.
When the report’s source is named (assuming it’s credible/nonpartisan) and/or the investigation uncovers evidence of wrongdoing, then it’s a news story. Right now it’s effectively just a rumor.
The fact that it’s referred to as a “published report” without saying where it’s published or linking to it says to me that this isn’t just a rumor; it’s an outright lie.
Yes, it’s an extremely conservative, mostly opinion substack. However, it is the original source for the story, and for the moment is the root source of details any other news site will have.
It’s not a root source for anything. The girls making the allegations, if they exist, are the root sources. Why haven’t either of them contacted any legitimate news outlets? Without that, nobody has any root source.
The handwritten letter seems a bit strange. The translation is accurate, but the original raises some red flags for me. Take the last paragraph, where her age as well as the month and year of the alleged abortion are underlined. Those don’t seem like the sorts of things one would underline in that type of letter. IMHO that conveys the impression of a “fill in the blank” form. There’s two different styles of capital Es. There’s random capital Fs in some places where a lower case F would be correct. Then what is presumably her signature and some other information at the bottom are also underlined. That all seems really strange. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if someone at the very least coached her to write this, or even that it was partially written by someone else.
Well let me rephrase that. It’s the root source of what’s publicly available in mainstream news at this instant, not a root source of the actual truth. Feel free to ignore it.
Shrug, I thought it would be helpful for those interested to see where this was coming from and see the details and root of what Fox, et. al. are summarizing from in their stories. Guess not.
It is useful. It seems there is a (former?) staff member that has been making accusations about the social worker since May 2022. She has some audio recordings of conversations with administration in which she makes the accusations. At least the very first one seems to be in response to her potentially giving a pregnancy test to a student (which she denied doing).
It smells like a vendetta against the social worker or an attention-seeking play (hence going to the news rather than up the chain in the school district).
But we know basically nothing at this point, other than what Ms Perez has claimed and the districts “we’re investigating” responses. Oh, and the governor piling in for the political cred.
ETA: Or, perhaps, a student who had an abortion, perhaps even after counseling about her options from the school counselor, and then had regrets and told her friends/family/teacher that it was all the counselor’s idea.