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Loudoun County Eagle Scout suspended for obeying Gov. Youngkin’s mask rules: This is ‘disgraceful’

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College students throughout the nation are talking out in opposition to restrictive masks mandates, together with in Virginia the place Gov. Glenn Youngkin has already enacted a mask-optional order.

Loudoun County pupil and Eagle Scout Jarod Missler participated in a protest in opposition to mandates by displaying as much as faculty maskless alongside 15 different college students. The Woodgrove Excessive College senior and his classmates had been instantly escorted to talk with faculty administration and had been punished with a 10-day suspension with the potential of being prolonged by the superintendent. 

Missler and his father, Fairfax County police sergeant Andrew Missler, joined “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Tuesday to specific their frustrations. Andrew Missler advised the story of how he attended his son’s first day of suspension to provide faculty principal, Dr. William Shipp, a chunk of his thoughts.

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“I had a pleasant, lengthy discuss along with his principal concerning the suspension and his actions,” he mentioned. “I believed it was disgraceful.”

Kevin Hulbert places pro-Youngkin indicators up as folks collect to protest totally different points throughout a Loudoun County College Board assembly in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis

The sergeant recalled that the dialogue was “as civil as civil could possibly be” as he advocated in opposition to his son’s suspension. Andrew Missler justified his argument because the faculty allegedly had, up to now, transferred a pupil to a different faculty for sexual assault misconduct with none suspension.

Jarod Missler left his personal message for Principal Shipp and the college.

“We should always comply with the manager order of Youngkin,” he mentioned. “And we should always permit folks to make their very own choices about this stuff.”

In a radio look with “The Vince Coglianese Present” Friday, Andrew Missler disclosed that he and others are planning to file an attraction to the county “instantly.” As the implications for college students went so far as being threatened with trespassing costs, Andrew pointed fingers at Shipp for failing to prioritize his college students’ schooling.

“In the end, it’s his faculty,” he mentioned. “He has some duty to these college students and I do consider that he as a principal needs to be standing up for our kids.”