Virginia parents irate over school’s ABC’s display

One of Virginia’s infamous public school systems served up “indoctrination” for Women’s History Month with an ABCs display that represents the letter “A” with a clothes hanger and pregnancy test.

“This is what happens when activists take over what’s taught in the classroom.”

(Video Credit: Fox News)

If mobile abortion clinics outside the Democratic National Convention haven’t yet proven it, the left has fully embraced baby murder as an idol. The depth to which it permeates the culture was on full display at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, as what was said to be a student-led project titled “The ABC’s to ME,” led off with promoting “A is for Abortion.”

The message on a bulletin board in the school’s hallway came as part of an elective class on women’s history that also featured “T is for Trans Women,” “Q is for Queer” and “N is for NOW” that displayed the logo for the National Organization for Women which supports men and boys playing in women’s and girls’ sports.

First reported by The Daily Signal, the school display also sold the message that “H is for Hope” with a picture of former Vice President Kamala Harris. The two-time failed presidential candidate was also pictured with New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and other Democrats for the letter “L is for Leadership.”

“A coat hanger and ‘A is for Abortion’ — in a Virginia public school,” wrote Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears on X. “This is what happens when activists take over what’s taught in the classroom. School is for education–NOT indoctrination.”

A coat hanger and “A is for Abortion” — in a Virginia public school.

This is what happens when activists take over what’s taught in the classroom.

School is for education—NOT indoctrination. https://t.co/EuD7DHsd8G

— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) March 30, 2025

This is sick – Virginia school puts up controversial ABCs display on Women’s History Month, starting with ‘A is for Abortion’ pic.twitter.com/UgmsmvWEuq

— Bryan Kemper (@BryanKemper) March 30, 2025

She was hardly alone in supporting that notion as student mom Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham earlier in March, “I just found out, a mom called me, and she told me that her son had actually ripped down the ‘A is for Abortion’ sign.”

“He was upset, and he was brought into the principal’s office, and they counseled him, and they said, ‘Well, you had such a visceral reaction to this,’ and I think that’s’ just absurd. I mean, how could you not have an emotive reaction to this, even if the adults do?” she went on. “So I’m proud of the students who are stepping up and saying, ‘This isn’t right. This isn’t the kind of school we want to be in. This is indoctrination, it’s not education.”

The mom also shared an email exchange between another mother and Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid that challenged the continued presence of the “obscene display” while alleging a violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.”

Reid supported the school’s permitting the display and responded, “Often, women’s history is excluded from traditional history texts and instruction. I respect the right of our students to respectfully share their honest, comprehensive historical perspective that is relevant to them as young adults and in keeping with the assignment guidance and expectations. This is critical thinking — an integral part of our educational experience for our soon-to-be graduating high school students.”

The superintendent went on to write, “I see this student display as an example of student work that explores ideas and perspectives in a thoughtful manner and trust that this matter has been appropriately handled by school-based staff — who have my full confidence.”

Lundquist-Arora blamed “politicized teaching and biased district leadership” as she went on to comment in part, “The teacher and administrators are using students to amplify their own divisive political messages, while silencing other students’ voices. Such viewpoint discrimination is unprofessional, immoral, and violates students’ civil rights and their parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing and education.”

Others echoed the outrage aimed at educators for failing to even attempt balance.

What is wrong with these educators ????

— Gracie (@Gracie77777) March 30, 2025

Then P should stand for Pro-Life.

— KayBDay (@KBDayFL) March 30, 2025

Why couldn’t “A” be for Abolitionist and highlight famous female abolitionists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Harriet Tubman?!

— Professor Pissybich (@pissybich) March 30, 2025

Truly evil – how disgraceful.

— mary (@mary51215670) March 30, 2025

Its always Fairfax or Loudoun

— brian leonardson (@BrianLeonardson) March 31, 2025

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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