On this episode of NUTS World, the Loudoun County Virginia School District is located in a

suburban county just outside Washington, D.C. and in 2020 Loudoun County Schools became the

unexpected ground zero for the parents rights movement. In his new book, Parents of the World

Year Night, Ian prior shares strategies fellow parents can do in their own school districts

to stop the left's radical agenda from taking root. Parents of the World Year Night is an

indispensable book for American families who believe they should be able to raise their children

without government interference in their moral, religious, and ethical choices. Here to talk about

his new book, I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Ian prior. He is the senior advisor at

America First Legal and the executive director of Fight for My Schools. Ian, welcome and thank

you for joining me on NUTS World. Thanks for having me. I'm curious, first of all, what cut you

personally interested in this whole issue of parents rights? Well, as you said, it really started in

2020 in Loudoun County, which is really a microcosm of what was going on in the country with schools

at the time and schools were closed. Yet a lot of parents that started organizing to try and push

for reopening the schools in the summer of 2020 and they built networks, they built groups, they

went and they spoke at school board meetings. But I really got involved sort of looking at some of

the consultants that the schools are bringing in and how that was impacting teacher trainings and

curriculum. And in August or September of 2020, I decided to send a Freedom of Information

Act request to the schools to find out about a contract that they had with a group called the

Equity Collaborative. And the Equity Collaborative had done an equity audit the previous year and

had recommended all these things that they needed to do to end systemic racism in Loudoun County

Public Schools, which was kind of news to me that there was systemic racism in Loudoun County

Public Schools. I read the report. I found it was pretty inadequate. A lot of anecdotal stories from

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