{"id":7732,"date":"2013-09-22T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2013-09-22T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T16:58:11","slug":"letter-statement-from-tonya-thames-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=7732","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Statement from Tonya Thames Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> The following is a statement by Dr. Tonya Thames Taylor, a member of the Coatesville Area School District, issued Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Letters11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7733\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Letters11.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>In light of the article written by <em>The Daily Local News<\/em> today (9\/22\/13), I feel compel to reiterate the position taken by fellow School Directors and me for the past month. The Daily Local reports that racially-charged text messages were discovered by school district employees. Those employees trusted me as a representative of the board with this information.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Local News<\/em> reports that I immediately contacted the school solicitor, Board President, and Vice President to inform them of the existence of the text messages. The article further reports that following my meeting with the Board President and Vice President that the Superintendent was confronted, the board was informed, and, within days, the Superintendent and Athletic Director were no longer employees of CASD. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite this newspaper reporting, I am still bound by a legal responsibility to protect the school district from any liability that could be caused by any statements that I make which could be misconstrued. I cannot comment about any matters that involve district personnel, which are confidential matters. Also, I cannot comment on any matters that are associated with an ongoing criminal investigation. I enjoy serving the district with excellence and my track record demonstrates this. I thank everyone for their continued support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tonya Thames Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Coatesville<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: The following is a statement by Dr. Tonya Thames Taylor, a member of the Coatesville Area School District, issued Sunday. To The Editor, In light of the article written by The Daily Local News today (9\/22\/13), I feel compel to reiterate the position taken by fellow School Directors and me for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[29,2845,1325],"class_list":["post-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-coatesville-area-school-district","tag-statement","tag-tonya-thames-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}