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Letter to the editor: School board story had ‘gaslighting comments’

We would expect much more from the media to keep their opinions out of it and just report facts and two sides of a story.
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School District No. 57 offices.

Quite disappointed in your article regarding the school board meeting the other day. Your gaslighting comments regarding Mr. Silva were in poor taste. As journalists, you should know that you need to show both sides of a story and not interpret a persons words and turn them into hateful rhetoric.

You calling Mr. Silva an anti-LGBTQ person is not proper as you have no clue who he is. You make statements that puts a false flag upon a person and now puts a target on his back and a title on him that he is not. How can you do that to a person? Mr. Silva was standing up for his children and other parents’ children and made proper statements that a lot of parents are thinking and talking about.

Not once did he name call or insinuate anything (go back and listen). He is just telling the school board that they should be focusing on proper education and teach children the proper fundamentals and education that parents expect and to keep anything that causes major confusion and possible mental issues that can come up away from our children. Leave the parenting to parents and fundamental education to the educators. Let children be children and learn what they are to learn on their own without any agendas from the school board and teachers.

We would expect much more from the media to keep their opinions out of it and just report facts and two sides of a story rather then gaslighting and harming a person's reputation and put false flags upon them. Would like to see an apology retraction piece on Mr. Silva as he is a loving father and a good human being that is looking after our children’s futures.

Domenic Cinalli

Prince George