In these days of e-everything, a letter in the mail means more than ever.
Propriety. Time taken for a well-thought-out gesture.
But that's not what people got from a letter sent by Seattle School Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson last month.
The letter informed members of the teachers union that if they didn't agree to losing one day of work next year to help the district compensate for lost state funding, they wouldn't have a job in September.
It's bad enough that the district ignored procedure, went around union officials and straight to the teachers, who protested that move (and the layoffs as well as the one-day cut or else), in front of district headquarters last week.
But there's also this: The district sent the letters by certified mail, at $5.63 a pop.
So for 3,300 members of the teachers union, the district spent $18,579 to say it didn't have any money.
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