I remember a 2022 interview with Leslie Thatcher on KPCW while running for Park City School Board. Leslie asked whether I would vote to remove Superintendent Dr. Gildea. I emphatically said, “YES”.

Now, it seems so long ago.

That was a simpler time when my criticism was based on a magic rock, not allowing teachers’ kids to attend the same school where they taught, having the Health Department take over a school, not speaking with the local NPR station, lack of rape and abuse reporting, and building without permits. Little did I know we would then have swastikas carved into desks, rampant bullying, and a scathing Office of Civil Rights report that alleged there was “ongoing harassment based on race, national origin (including antisemitic harassment), disability, and sex.”

That brings us up to today to a story written by Brock Marchant in the ParkRecord about Payton Bullet, who has been bullied since elementary school mainly because he is black.