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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The email is fine. You all love to complain about everything. It is a nightmare job. 
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Yep there is absolutely nothing wrong with his email. [/quote]

There’s plenty wrong with it[/quote]

Sends a terrible message that he dgaf and won't listen to anyone[/quote]

It actually reads as the opposite.  It says that he won't bow to political pressure from politicians who are pandering to constituents and will instead rely on the data.[/quote]

DP. There is no purely "relying on data" when you're making political decisions, which his decisions are. Data can help you predict what the outcomes of a choice will be, but it can't help you pick which outcomes should be prioritized. Like with the decision to close Wootton, "data" can help you guess the costs of closure versus alternatives, or the effect of closure on enrollment, student travel time, and course offerings. It can't tell you how to prioritize those outcomes. How you arrange those priorities is a political choice, like all choices for how public benefits will be distributed.

Ultimately, those choices are made by voters. The school system is a democratic institution. A superintendent's job is, in part, to implement those goals as decided by the voters through their representatives. A superintendent who doesn't see that as political is either lying to himself or to us. [/quote]

Hang on, so by this logic civil servants in the federal government should make recommendations based on talking points from members of Congress?  If not, how is what you are saying different?[/quote]

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