A Virginia teacher has dramatically resigned during a meeting of her scandal-hit school board after blasting its obsession with lessons on critical race theory. Laura Morris spoke before Loudoun County School Board in an emotional address, explaining why the ‘equity trainings’ and political dogma forced her to resign. She said she could no longer be part of an organization that told her ‘white, Christian, able-bodied females’ needed to be reined in.

Morris, who has taught at Lucketts Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, for five years – half of her career – told the board: ‘I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly-politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents – the children.’

And she said that she had been sent a form which she and her colleagues were told to fill out if they heard others within the school system criticizing ‘the controversial policies being promoted by this school board’.

Morris continued: ‘Not only that, but within the last year I was told in our so-called equity trainings that white, Christian, able-bodied females currently have the power in our schools and, quote, ‘this has to change’.

‘Clearly you have made your point.