Emails reveal contempt by MoCo health dept for nonpublic schools

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Anonymous wrote:That was August of 2020. Covid was about to take off. He made the right call to resist school reopening over the objections of you anti-mask, reopen-now dummies.

What alternate reality do you live in? Once again, his efforts FAILED. Many private schools opened and with little to no in school transmission.

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The biggest issue for me was the inconsistency of his policies. It was okay for summer camps that were running at that time and it was okay for the learning pods inside public school buildings but not private schools?? To me that showed his bias and made me believe he was playing politics. If he truly believed that it wasn’t safe for any school to open then he should have immediately shut down camps and not okayed the learning pods.

[Anonymous]

We already knew he wasn't making decisions based on science or whether individual schools could meet the safety guidelines with their plans.

But I'm surprised he'd put this kind of inappropriate callousness in email! Everyone knows emails about a contraversial issue are going to be FOIA'd. Im a govt employee and this is so obvious!

And adults stay SDMH in work emails ?!

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That’s very unprofessional for a public servant and a physician.

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles should step down or be fired immediately! He was wrong in his actions and in the unintelligent and inappropriate emails. Private schools opened and educated their students just fine. Not public schools - and this is his problem. He has no idea how to do his job and these email revelations should be the nail in his coffin. He is terrible at his job, divisive, and prejudiced. Time to Go!

He's not going to be "fired" and will not step down. You don't like his emails. Oh well.

You are wrong, he should be? People are fired for inappropriate emails and not doing their job all the time. He is not serving the people of his county. He intended to harm them and disregard them. He made them jump through hoops and then didn't even bother to review their plans - that equates to not doing your job. Not to mention he was wrong. And you oy care about public school children, well he did wrong by them as well. He failed in his job across the board 100%.

It's OK. He was making fun of rich people. Now if he was making fun of poor or non-white people, different story.

He doesn't seem to realize that he was.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s just speaking the truth. That’s why everyone on this thread is upset. Why not acknowledge your privilege and then have a conversation?!

What privilege? I work hard to afford private for my kid. So? You made other choices. People that bash others using the tired “privileged” label sound like envious middle school children. Get over it. People are more successful then you.

The privilege is not going to private school. It’s suggesting to public health officials during a global pandemic that your school is special and deserves special rules.

NP: Special is the wrong word. Different it on point: any place -- school, business, camp, whatever -- that could operate safely with testing and distancing should have been allowed to operate. That's science and public health. No school should safely open if public schools can't? That's politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was August of 2020. Covid was about to take off. He made the right call to resist school reopening over the objections of you anti-mask, reopen-now dummies.

None of the schools were anti-mask. None were reopening "now" without following and exceeding the precautions the public health community recommended. You are arguing from passion and poliics, not facts.

[Anonymous]

I also think Dr. Gayles needs to realize that certainly for parochial schools that many families are not rich and get a lot of aid in order to send their kids to school. Some schools in the ADW ONLY serve underserved populations such as San Miguel, WJA, Don Bosco, etc. But, sure, paint all of those families with the same rich people brush that fits your narrative.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. The fact no one on the council or Elrich spoke to this is also telling. Time to vote every last one of them out, and this is coming from a lifelong democrat.

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Anonymous wrote:Everybody's an effin expert in hindsight.

Yep. This.

Though his emails were pretty blunt and not written for public consumption they reflected fact. Folks think that because they have money they deserve special privileges. Keeping the community safe was the priority. Did he put in more restrictions than necessary? Perhaps, but he was doing what he could at the time.

I’m sorry, but posts like this are beyond rude. Who says all private school kids have money? Who are you to say where my family comes from or what we do? Private schools are for many different kinds of kids. It is this kind of name calling and stereotyping that is ripping everything apart. Gayles is making massive assumptions and it is just as biased as it could be. Really infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We already knew he wasn't making decisions based on science or whether individual schools could meet the safety guidelines with their plans.

But I'm surprised he'd put this kind of inappropriate callousness in email! Everyone knows emails about a contraversial issue are going to be FOIA'd. Im a govt employee and this is so obvious!

And adults stay SDMH in work emails ?!

What does SDMH stand for? I googled it and didn’t see anything?

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Anonymous wrote:He’s just speaking the truth. That’s why everyone on this thread is upset. Why not acknowledge your privilege and then have a conversation?!

What privilege? I work hard to afford private for my kid. So? You made other choices. People that bash others using the tired “privileged” label sound like envious middle school children. Get over it. People are more successful then you.

The privilege is not going to private school. It’s suggesting to public health officials during a global pandemic that your school is special and deserves special rules.

But this wasn’t what it was. There is no question that private schools have smaller class sizes and the ability to pivot to meet CDC guidelines in a way the public schools did not. Our son has 12 kids in his class. They were set-up to be 6 feet apart with plexi-glass dividers, windows open, classes outside where possible. Why were these facts not considered? Instead, he dismissed all private schools without regard to meet safety measures. We are very cautious. But this was never about keeping kids safe because, if it were, he would have looked at what schools were capable of. This was always about closing down the private that could comply with safety recommendations because the public could not. And the data support this: private schools, with these measures, have been open for months, safely. And now the publics are starting to do what they have been doing since the fall, albeit slower and for fewer days. Please don’t make this a class way, because the fact is that all of our children deserved better - the private didn’t deserve to be labeled spoiled kids of rich people and shut down for basically that fact when they prepared plans demonstrating their ability to safely bring kids back; and the public school kids deserved more than solving the problem by saying “see, the privates are home too” rather than working to try and implement similar safety measures.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also think Dr. Gayles needs to realize that certainly for parochial schools that many families are not rich and get a lot of aid in order to send their kids to school. Some schools in the ADW ONLY serve underserved populations such as San Miguel, WJA, Don Bosco, etc. But, sure, paint all of those families with the same rich people brush that fits your narrative.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. The fact no one on the council or Elrich spoke to this is also telling. Time to vote every last one of them out, and this is coming from a lifelong democrat.

My sentiments exactly, from a social liberal Democrat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s just speaking the truth. That’s why everyone on this thread is upset. Why not acknowledge your privilege and then have a conversation?!

I'm with you. I read the article and my reaction was "where's the lie"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue for me was the inconsistency of his policies. It was okay for summer camps that were running at that time and it was okay for the learning pods inside public school buildings but not private schools?? To me that showed his bias and made me believe he was playing politics. If he truly believed that it wasn’t safe for any school to open then he should have immediately shut down camps and not okayed the learning pods.

1000% His statements about privilege are an excuse and deflection. He did not do his job and was prejudiced against non-public schools and their communities (many of whom are not wealthy). He does not have the ability to see and think in complex form. For him it was all schools should be closed, not matter their circumstance. He could not consider a plan B or C. This is where he is at fault this past fall. By reviewing the non-public school plans and allowing them to open he could have gained valuable knowledge that could have benefited public schools and allowed them to be able to open earlier. In not doing this he, unfortunately, let down the public school children and their families as well. The emails just add insult to injury. They prove his prejudiced and ignorant views, making him unfit for public office. He is here to serve his community and he failed. Bottom line, time to find a new job. Not fit for office.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also think Dr. Gayles needs to realize that certainly for parochial schools that many families are not rich and get a lot of aid in order to send their kids to school. Some schools in the ADW ONLY serve underserved populations such as San Miguel, WJA, Don Bosco, etc. But, sure, paint all of those families with the same rich people brush that fits your narrative.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. The fact no one on the council or Elrich spoke to this is also telling. Time to vote every last one of them out, and this is coming from a lifelong democrat.

My sentiments exactly, from a social liberal Democrat!

it’s really ugly. basically they knew they could not open public schools due to the unions, so they had to try to keep privates closed. very glad they failed.