This is called culling the herd, and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares’ investigation into the state’s school board insanity is doing that work. The radical members in Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and other Virginia school boards are rightly feeling the heat. While some have been tossed out by losing their elections, and others have been fired for malfeasance, some have decided to simply get out of the kitchen.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

From The Daily Wire:

The most radical member of the most radical school board in Virginia, Fairfax County’s Abrar Omeish, has declined to run for reelection, citing the toll of investigations into the school system.

Omeish told local Fairfax County News (FFxNow) that she accepted a job with a non-profit focused on youth law and advocacy, and will also serve on the board of a national youth organization. Omeish gave FFxNow a statement on her decision, citing frustrations with the legal and public relations battles that she says have undermined the school board’s efforts to further equity and inclusion.

Cue the tiny violins. The best thing that could happen for every school district across the country is to see the investment efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion die a quick and painful death. Getting people like Omeish out of the picture is one small step in that direction.

Omeish voted against a resolution honoring the victims of 9/11; her father was vice president of a mosque attended by multiple 9/11 terrorists and whose imam was Anwar Al-Awaki, who was later killed by a drone in Yemen where he was serving as an Al Queda operative.

Omeish told graduates at a heavily-minority school that they were entering a world of “capitalism” and “white supremacy” and encouraged them to remember “jihad” and reject objectivity, and pictures at another graduation showed her declining to stand for the pledge of allegiance.

Most recently, she called Iwo Jima, the battle where Americans heroically fought an Axis power, “unfortunate” and “evil.”

“Piece of work,” is putting it mildly. Omeish also filed a lawsuit against the police in 2019 for allegedly photographing her without her hijab at a traffic stop. Omeish also claimed that she had been pepper-sprayed by an officer. Diversity in political and social viewpoints aside, a person who simply lives to activate, stir up trouble, and has nothing good to say about America should not be on anybody’s school board. Yet, her anti-American efforts were unopposed until Governor Youngkin encouraged and supported parents demanding accountability and standards—two things that make radicals like Omeish scatter like roaches when you flip on the lights.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and state Attorney General Jason Miyares have launched numerous investigations into apparent racism and other issues at Fairfax schools, including a change to magnet school admissions that a court found was aimed at reducing the number of Asians, and sending a flyer that excluded whites and Asians from a tutoring opportunity.

Fairfax Now reported Thursday that Omeish said she will not run for reelection this year, “because of how stifling these investigations have been on the ability of our school system to implement real change.”

The move is a sign that Youngkin is having an effect on Northern Virginia’s school systems, which have become openly partisan and defied an executive order requiring them to lift mask mandates–instead imposing severe sanctions, even as they advocated for “restorative justice” for violent offenses.

Omeish was also getting lots of competition. Former Fairfax County School Board member Ryan McElveen has decided to go for one of the open Fairfax County School Board at-large board seats, along with candidates Saundra Davis, Jeff Hoffmann, Chris Lewis, Kyle McDaniel, Ilryong Moon, Cassandra Aucoin, Hamid Munir, Linda Pellegrino, and Lawrence Webb.

As it has been for the past three years, Virginia’s school boards will continue to be the bellwether for the nation and ones to keep an eye on.

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