Brubaker announces run for Catoctin District School Board 

Daniel A. Brubaker is a candidate for the Loudoun County School Board in the Catoctin District.

Brubaker, a postdoctoral researcher, professor, and author whose work with Quran manuscripts is known worldwide, has lived in Loudoun since 2013. Brubaker and his wife Latha live in Lovettsville and have three daughters.

He has spoken publicly before the Loudoun County School Board, the Board of Supervisors, and written letters to the editor. Said Brubaker, “Since 2019, an activist majority of the LCSB has not listened to parents. 

“Time and again, they brushed aside legitimate and reasonable concerns in favor of partisan political agendas. Our children seem like an afterthought to their partisan agenda.  This situation is simply unacceptable, and that’s why I am running. I will represent the parents and children of our wonderful community,” he said.

Brubaker’s platform is to affirm par-
ental rights and student safety. He opposes racist pedagogies, and supports a restoration of excellence and opportunity for all children. 

According to Brubaker, his campagn issues are:

Unions: On March 23, 2023, four members of the Loudoun County School Board (Mahedavi, Reaser, Serotkin, and Ogedegbe), voted to allow collective bargaining in LCSB, transferring authority that rightly belongs to the taxpayers and voters into the hands of the Loudoun Education Association. 

Less than a week after the board passed collective bargaining, they requested an additional $3.3 million in funding to hire thirteen employees tasked specifically to deal with collective bargaining.

 “We need to treat our teachers and staff well, while fighting to undo the collective bargaining boondoggle. We have a very short window to reverse course before the unions become entrenched.”

Oppose CRT and other Marxist pedagogies: Critical Theory is propaganda designed to take down justice and replace it with collectivist authoritarianism. It has no place in our schools because it is false, and because its insistence that one’s race determines one’s value and moral status is fundamentally un-American. 

Parents are not enemies: LCSB exists to serve the taxpayers, parents, and children of Loudoun County. Parents have a right to know what their kids are learning, and to be partners with the schools. It is utterly inappropriate for school personnel to keep secrets from parents of minor children. 

Teachers deserve our thanks: Our teachers are some of the most important people in the lives or our children. They deserve a positive working environment, and generous compensation.

Kids should be safe when at school: School safety means physical safety as well as safety from moral and mental harm. I believe this school board has gone out of their way to keep obscene materials in schools. This school board covered up the rape of a minor in a bathroom in order to pass a policy (8040) which further endangers our children. 

Opportunity and challenge: The class of 2024 is scheduled to be the last to have class rankings because members of the current school board removed them in the name of “equity.” 

“When I am on the school board,” he said, “I will move immediately to restore class rankings and to ensure that all students can rise to their individual potential.

Fiscal restraint: The taxpayers of Loudoun County deserve good management of their funds. Even though teachers are the heart of any educational enterprise, the LCSB has focused on expanding the administrative bureaucracy. 

“I intend to help restore the transparency and trust that parents deserve from our schools.”

Brubaker can be reached at Brubakerforeveryone@gmail.com or go to www.brubakerforeveryone.com.