Autodialers are primarily used by telemarketers and I am lead to believe they cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. They used it for this task because they had it around, but why did they have it around? Snow days or something?

I absolutely agree that parents and students should be held accountable but it’s not the system our school districts have been mandated to follow. Take that debate up with your legislators.

1) If HR had enough staff to speak to all those teachers individually, you’d say the department was overstaffed. 2) If the communications department had enough PR folks to rebut Allen Gwinn, Kent Fischer et al, you’d complain that was frivolous use of taxpayer dollars.

The Spruce situation has been headlined for weeks. There were town hall and school board meetings and, I’ll bet there were staff meetings too. If these teachers didn’t already know their jobs were in jeopardy then do we want them teaching?

I will always grieve for those and their families who lose their jobs. I’ve been there as a child and as a co-worker.

However, the school district is about students not jobs and our current leadership understands that. I heart Hinojosa and his superior staff including Kim Olson in HR.

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