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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Emails reveal Montgomery County health department's contempt for nonpublic schools


“The privileged class of the county is showing their behinds,” health officer Travis Gayles of Montgomery County, Maryland, wrote on Aug. 1, dismissing objections from parents, teachers, and principals upset at his blanket closure of all nonpublic schools.

Gayles ultimately failed in his efforts to block the schools from reopening in the fall, but during the week his department spent defending his order, Gayles and his colleagues shared, in emails, their low opinion of the county's religious and nonpublic schools and the parents who send their children to them.

A public records request revealed two email chains in which the health officials dismiss parents’ and schools’ arguments against closure as spasms of “privilege” and “arrogance."..

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/emails-reveal-montgomery-county-health-departments-contempt-for-nonpublic-schools

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