Taxpayers on the Hook for $500K+ After School Board's Woke Crusade Against Free Speech

Fired for Refusing to Use Trans Pronouns, Teacher Peter Vlaming Wins $575K Settlement as West Point Taxpayers Foot the Bill.

What an absolute disaster. West Point, Virginia, school board just flushed over half a million dollars of taxpayer money down the toilet to make a woke political statement.

This whole fiasco began when Peter Vlaming, a respected French teacher, had the audacity to actually exercise his First Amendment rights.

His crime?

Refusing to bow down to the progressive gods of gender identity by not using a transgender student's preferred pronouns.

In return, the school board gave him the boot, throwing his constitutional rights out the window like yesterday's news.

Now, the hard-working taxpayers of West Point are left to bear the heavy burden of $575,000 in damages and legal fees, all because a group of educators believed they could impose their ideological agenda on a teacher.

And make no mistake, the real victims here are the good citizens of West Point who now get to foot the bill for this unconstitutional social experiment.

That's right, their hard-earned money is being gambled away in politically charged lawsuits by school boards that play fast and loose with public tax dollars.

And for what?

To make a progressive statement that ignores not just common sense but the very Bill of Rights?

These are the same individuals entrusted with teaching our children about the Constitution, yet they seem to lack a fundamental understanding of free speech.

They're so terrified of anything that could remotely be seen as a church-state violation but have no qualms about torching your tax dollars on a legal dumpster fire, all in the name of enforcing their twisted ideology.

The board tried to make an example out of Vlaming, but in the end, they got burned.

Thanks to the legal team at ADF and Vlaming's lawsuit, the board had to backtrack in the most humiliating way possible, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and wiping his record clean.

If the citizens of West Point have any good old-fashioned patriotism left, they'll fire this rogue school board and replace a superintendent who's more concerned about making woke statements than respecting constitutional rights.

This isn't just about one teacher; this is about the reckless, out-of-touch leadership that's gambling with the money of moms and pops in the middle of economic disaster.

Enough is enough.

It's time to put education back in the hands of people who defend and respect the First Amendment, not social engineers with deep pockets who worship at the steps of Dr. Frankenstein's altar.

Martin Mawyer is president of the Christian Action Network, which he founded in 1990. Located in Lynchburg, VA, CAN was formed as a non-profit educational organization to protect America’s religious and moral heritage. He is the author of several books, including You Are Chosen: Prepare to Triumph in a Fallen World.