Despite recent contentious and lengthy meetings of the Wayland Board of Education Monday night’ session was relatively brief, at about 60 minutes and it included few explosive comments from the audience.

About 45 to 50 people, including board members, were in attendance at the Fine Arts Center.

The issues remain, as though school administrators had announced their intentions to reopen schools later this month inside classrooms and masks being optional in the wake of the Covid viral pandemic, the Delta variant and vaccine refusals have fueled a comeback in Covid’s threat.

There were only five commenters  signed in and only of them took the podium.  The other two agreed with the first speaker.

His message was that the board should treat Covid the way the parents want it and questioned “real science,” reminding board members their job is to do the will of the majority of parents, not the CDC, the State or County Health Departments.

Supt. Dr. Christina Hinds asserted that local school officials have not issued any Covid policy directives and still await guidance from the Health Department.

One man said he opposes Wayland Schools following county guidelines and having quarantines or mandatory face masks   Another gentleman said he would take his three children and their $20K state allocated money to another district.

The last public speaker was former Board President Cinnamon Mellema, who asked the board to implement better control over how outsiders could take over meetings raise issues such Critical Race Theory that they see is a hot topic in from watching FoxNews.  She said letting the outsiders in makes Wayland look bad.