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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!

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.

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?!

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.

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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.

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 ?!

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.