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Speaker 1: I have huge concerns for both of my children, you know,

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Speaker 1: on multiple levels.

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Speaker 2: Tony is one of the many parents who filled an

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Speaker 2: auditorium this week to hear the news that the Whitman

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Speaker 2: Hanson School District will have to move forward cutting several

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Speaker 2: teachers and staffers in the coming weeks. They are one

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Speaker 2: point four million dollars in the red on their budget

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Speaker 2: and nobody has a good answer on why this wasn't

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Speaker 2: address before the school year.

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Speaker 1: As far as being in school and after school activities.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five jobs in total are set to be cut,

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Speaker 2: even after a no confidence vote in the school superintendent

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Speaker 2: from the teachers' union. Parents vow they're not done demanding answers.

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Speaker 1: Things like that being cut and them not being able

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Speaker 1: to get, you know, access to all of that is

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Speaker 1: just disgusting in Whitman.

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Speaker 2: Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News radio