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Reasons unknown? For starters, they were conspiring to covertly spy on their employer.

Nope, the district had no idea they were doing that until after the firing. I did hear the actual reason was because they were considering joining a union, but I didn’t stick around long enough to dig any deeper.

Conspiring criminals tend to do lots of conspiracy-ish and criminal-ly things. If they secretly installed webcams, they likely also were reading users' email and viewing confidential documents like performance reviews, budgets, salaries and student test scores. Their firing was likely highly justified.

Since you seem to know all kinds of facts that discredit the school district, the superintendent, and the IT supervisor, yet "didn't stick around" to absorb info that might look bad for the group of employees, makes you a narrator who is difficult to believe is being objective and non-biased.

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