Before AI takes a teacher’s job, send it to the district office

With shrinking enrollment and ballooning expenses, public school districts across the country are not only facing massive budget deficits but are also quickly losing the goodwill of the public.

Here in Texas, districts like Houston and Austin are seeing huge budget shortfalls. Around the country, school systems are on the path to bankruptcy yet have done little to cut spending.

So many meetings, conferences, and email exchanges could be phased out, leaving more time to actually teach students.

Many district leaders and their respective school boards seem to believe that these enrollment drops are nothing serious or that they can blame someone else for the problem and absolve themselves of responsibility. Consequently, instead of making significant spending cuts, they go on draining rainy-day funds or spending money they