Karen Keys-Gamarra said she was 'frustrated' but should not have used a derogatory term about people with intellectual disabilities.
A member of the Fairfax County School Board apologized Friday for using a derogatory term for people with intellectual disabilities during a meeting the previous evening.
Karen Keys-Gamarra, a child advocate and lawyer who has been an at-large member of the school board since 2017, made the comment in an aside to another board member, but it was was picked up on a microphone. “We can’t be this,” she started, and used the disparaging word.“I deeply apologize for my words because that’s not what is in my heart,” Keys-Gamarra said in her statement.
A community member had been reading a statement against anti-racist efforts in the school system on behalf of someone who could not attend because of a family emergency. Fairfax board rules bar participants from speaking on behalf of others. Keys-Gamarra and three others voted to suspend that rule, but the motion failed and the woman could not complete her statement.
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