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Stockton may have cancelled their annual Fourth of July celebration, but that didn’t mean there weren’t some fireworks on display at the most recent School Board Zoom meeting.

By now, everyone knows the actions taken by the Foolish Four on the Stockton School Board, and last week they compounded the problem when they hired the new Superintendent of Schools for next year, James Bunting from Watseka, on a two-year contract. Bringing the total number of administrators to four, and adding another $103,000 the District cannot really afford to their expenses.

(For the record, former superin...