Virginia Permits ADULT MIGRANT MEN To Attend High School

Virginia is allowing 22-year-old grown men, illegal migrants who don’t speak English, to enroll in public high school with your 14- and 15-year-old daughters. Mind you, American kids get booted at 20.

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Reports emerging out of Virginia confirm that migrants, including those in the country illegally, are being allowed to remain in high schools up to the age of 22, placing adult individuals into classrooms with minors. What is being justified under the banner of “education access” has effectively created a loophole where grown adults can legally sit alongside teenage students. Yet another example of Democrats prioritizing open borders above all else.

We now have a situation where individuals far beyond what any reasonable person would define as “school age” are being kept inside high schools, funded by taxpayers, and justified under a complete distortion of the law. The 1982 Supreme Court decision was meant to ensure that children, not adults, would not be denied a basic education. It was about minors, about protecting kids, not opening the door for fully grown adults to sit in classrooms with 13- and 14-year-olds. Yet that is exactly what this has become. Virginia Code § 22.1-5 was intended to help non-English-speaking students integrate. Meanwhile, American youth legally must leave public school by the age of 20, or an extra two years after traditional graduation. Policymakers have twisted a child-protection measure into a loophole that now places adult migrants, including those here illegally, into environments designed for minors. You now have 12-year-olds sitting in classrooms alongside adult men from entirely different backgrounds and cultures, and we are told this is normal. It is not. This is a fundamental breakdown in the purpose of the law and a reckless abandonment of the very students it was meant to protect.

Virginia Code § 22.1-5(D) explicitly states: “School boards may accept and provide programs for students for whom English is a second language who entered school in Virginia for the first time after reaching their twelfth birthday, and who have not reached 22 years of age on or before August 1 of the school year. No tuition shall be charged such students, if state funding is provided for such programs.”

What could go wrong? In Fairfax County, a 19-year-old migrant has been accused of sexually assaulting multiple female classmates. These young girls were assaulted in the confines of their school, a place that should be a safe haven. Our children are no longer protected by the law. In fact, this new legislation outright puts children in danger and denies students the ability to learn in a safe environment. Even unvetted migrants who do not have proper documentation are permitted to attend high school in Virginia so long as they claim to be under 22. Any grown, able-bodied, working-age man can now collect government benefits under the guise of desiring a high school diploma.

Virginia lawmakers are actively moving to codify policies that ensure access to public education regardless of immigration status. The state receives funding for ESL programs, and open border policies are emboldened. Despite the molestation charges and obvious risks, lawmakers in Virginia are not concerned about the safety of children.

Parents cannot pick up their children from school without presenting proper ID and signing waivers. They cannot even walk inside the school without going directly to the main office where they are vetted. Now, schools are being asked to simply accept stated ages and backgrounds at face value while permitting ANY semi-youthful presenting individual to attend classes. You are effectively placing unverified adults into daily contact with minors and hoping nothing goes wrong. These migrant students will likely be older than the teachers in many classrooms. No serious institution would operate this way, yet this is now being normalized by the far-left who are using children as political social experiments.

Schools are supposed to be controlled environments where minors learn among peers. Now, children will be placed in proximity to adults whose backgrounds, histories, and intentions are completely unknown. No parent sends their child to school expecting that the system has quietly redefined who belongs in that environment. The Democrats are effectively weaponizing public schools, endangering children, and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. What horrors must occur before this law is repealed?

Parents send their children to school under the assumption that it is a controlled, safe environment. You cannot maintain a functioning society if people no longer trust its institutions to provide basic safety.

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