Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 21:25     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:The school's hands were tied. If he had left it as basically talking about recognizing and supporting each child, it would be a different story. I am sure the school would have fully stood behind him. Maybe if he had even said that doing so requires taking a more expansive view of Catholic teachings and values, he would have been on more solid ground. The issue was adding the part about feeling like it is subverting the Catholic Church and that being a good thing. I don't see how the school could have done anything else.


I agree his comments, taken with no context and without his knowledge, were problematic. We don't know whether he was fired or chose to leave, the school's statement was ambiguous so who knows if they had to do much of anything at all.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 21:14     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
The school's hands were tied. If he had left it as basically talking about recognizing and supporting each child, it would be a different story. I am sure the school would have fully stood behind him. Maybe if he had even said that doing so requires taking a more expansive view of Catholic teachings and values, he would have been on more solid ground. The issue was adding the part about feeling like it is subverting the Catholic Church and that being a good thing. I don't see how the school could have done anything else.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:39     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
As a new non-Catholic family at SR we’re sad to see him leave. However, it should be noted that he was leaving at the end of the school year anyway. The email from the head of school was well-written and wasn’t shy to call out Project Veritas. It’s sad this is how he left… I wish there was a way to reach out to him and let him know he was a special and respected member of the SR community.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:30     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This sets a bad precedent. He was doing his job well and serving an underrepresented part of the SR community. I get that religious and private institutions can fire without cause, but it doesn’t mean they should.

Why choose SR if they abandon loyal people so quickly under pressure? What example does this set for their students?


Instead of breaking with the employee, they should have broken with the Catholic Church. Problem solved!


Or they could have shown the Catholic value of forgiveness and redemption for a member of the community, like they tell the students to do. Tomorrow morning they'll be reminding the girls we're all sinners who come from dust, this holds true for faculty and staff as well.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:28     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This sets a bad precedent. He was doing his job well and serving an underrepresented part of the SR community. I get that religious and private institutions can fire without cause, but it doesn’t mean they should.

Why choose SR if they abandon loyal people so quickly under pressure? What example does this set for their students?


If they had kept him on the staff, the school would lose all of its credibility as a Catholic institution. I suspect they were very concerned about enrollment in the upcoming admissions season...especially in the lower and middle schools. They did the right thing for the future of the school.


They shouldn't be concerned about enrollment, especially since covid they have been turning away lots of applicants and trying to set up additional classrooms for all of the girls they let in. Enrollment isn't an issue these days.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:27     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:This sets a bad precedent. He was doing his job well and serving an underrepresented part of the SR community. I get that religious and private institutions can fire without cause, but it doesn’t mean they should.

Why choose SR if they abandon loyal people so quickly under pressure? What example does this set for their students?


Instead of breaking with the employee, they should have broken with the Catholic Church. Problem solved!
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:21     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:This sets a bad precedent. He was doing his job well and serving an underrepresented part of the SR community. I get that religious and private institutions can fire without cause, but it doesn’t mean they should.

Why choose SR if they abandon loyal people so quickly under pressure? What example does this set for their students?


If they had kept him on the staff, the school would lose all of its credibility as a Catholic institution. I suspect they were very concerned about enrollment in the upcoming admissions season...especially in the lower and middle schools. They did the right thing for the future of the school.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:12     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
This sets a bad precedent. He was doing his job well and serving an underrepresented part of the SR community. I get that religious and private institutions can fire without cause, but it doesn’t mean they should.

Why choose SR if they abandon loyal people so quickly under pressure? What example does this set for their students?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:09     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:SR was a better place with him there, I'm sorry the girls won't have him as a teacher and mentor any more. As an SR parent and alum I'm very disappointed in how this was handled.


Well I suspect you are outnumbered, and rightfully so. I don't know the gentleman, and I am sure he is lovely and fun to be around. But he crossed a line. He would be better off in a secular educational setting.


On the SR parents chats I'm on with girls in different grades we are entirely in support of him. I do know the gentleman, he educated my daughters for years with a lot of grace and humor. He is a favorite of the girls and will be missed.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:01     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Is videotaping consistent with school policies?

PV are a bunch of criminals and a cancer on society so I would be leery of doing anything that encourages them
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 19:59     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:Can more SR parents weigh in on whether the students are actually upset by this? I am a Catholic with a girl currently in public MS and live close to Sr and was thinking of applying for HS. But I definitely don’t want to send her there if the bulk of her classmates would be upset over something like this. We have lesbian family members and friends.

Also, after seeing so many bishops who told Catholics that objected to the covid vaccine that they should follow their conscience even if it deviated from church doctrine with respect to the vaccine…..I would think that Catholics could follow their conscience when it comes to our treatment of our gay and lesbian sisters and brothers in Christ. To paraphrase Patrick Henry, if this be “subversion,” make the most of it.



How many bishops said such a stupid thing exactly?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 19:25     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:SR was a better place with him there, I'm sorry the girls won't have him as a teacher and mentor any more. As an SR parent and alum I'm very disappointed in how this was handled.


Well I suspect you are outnumbered, and rightfully so. I don't know the gentleman, and I am sure he is lovely and fun to be around. But he crossed a line. He would be better off in a secular educational setting.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 18:40     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
SR was a better place with him there, I'm sorry the girls won't have him as a teacher and mentor any more. As an SR parent and alum I'm very disappointed in how this was handled.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 17:46     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The school just announced that after placing the Dean on administrative leave, they determined to not bring him back after a thorough examination of the circumstances - especially in the light of their catholic identity.


They did the right thing.


I'm a parent at the school who didn't complain but I wholeheartedly agree.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 17:42     Subject: SR/Project Veritas video
Anonymous wrote:The school just announced that after placing the Dean on administrative leave, they determined to not bring him back after a thorough examination of the circumstances - especially in the light of their catholic identity.


They did the right thing.