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Of freedom. >> what do you say to somebody who might be watching who says, this guy doesn't have kids in school. why is he taking part in a school board meeting? >> because i love the kids even though i don't know them. i just want to see them have happy lives. >> do you as a superintendent wish the passions were elsewhere? >> i do. i think that what has happened is it's taken our eye off of what we're really hired to do, and that's educate our students and provide a great learning environment for them. there's a lot of misinformation out there from people who have never been in any of our sch...

>> do you have children in the school district? >> i do not. i'm retired. >> then why do you keep coming? >> i'm concerned about our loss of freedom. >> what do you say to somebody who might be watching that says, this guy doesn't have kids in school. why is he taking part in the school board meeting? >> because i love the kids even though i don't know them. i just want to see them have happy lives. >> do you as a superintendent wish the passions were elsewhere? >> i do. i think what has happened is it has taken our eye off what we work really hard to do. to provide a great learning environmen...

>> we were spreading ourselves far too thin. facing a $50 million deficit. and if we didn't do something to take our school district off that trajectory, we could've easily gone into bankruptcy. >> i'm really sad. it's a great school, my son has had a lot of success here. it's a great learning environment. >> in many districts, their obsession with keeping every school open despite the declining population results in educational services being delivered in a much more inefficient manner. if your population has dropped 30% to 40%, at some point you've got to consolidate schools. >> aided and ab...