OSD has overspent for years without any accountability. While the folks sitting high on their overpriced office chairs at the district office at Knox fatten their purses and have no personal investment in this community and put their own children in private schools, they remain disconnected from the people their very positions were created to serve. They discount and disregard what parents have to say. They foster a hostile work environment and abuse or neglect the needs of their lower-paid staff, and make excuses for irresponsible and negligent overspending from people they already overpay to begin with. They have stripped the schools of programs that made them valuable to the communities and families they once served (take ORLA, for example) and ignore complaints, concerns, and feedback from tax-paying parents and citizens unless and until they are faced with microphones and cameras from a media outlet they can't ignore, and even then, they sugarcoat and spew a farce of empathetic words while they pretend to care. After all their gross misconduct and mismanagement of public funds, who will suffer from the budget cuts? Not Patrick Murphy. Not Jennifer Priddy. Not Autumn Lara. The teachers and paraeducators who are losing their jobs. The students and families who are losing their schools due to upcoming school closures as a result of these 'budget constraints.' Has the OSD even made public yet that they intend to close two elementary schools within the next year to make up for their despicable budget deficit? Let's talk about that, shall we?
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