All of this makes me think that the firing may not have been as arbitrary as many people believe. Considering the degree of esteem for them, it seems quite possible to me that the silence surrounding the Aalands’ firing may have had more to do with protecting them from some embarrassment than it had to do with the school protecting itself. The school certainly has nothing to gain by acting in such an apparently arbitrary manner.

In any event, whether this was a case of good people using bad judgment or of someone in the school acting imperiously, I would encourage people to reserve their judgment of both the Aalands and the school until the facts surface, as they surely will.

Bob Kimmick

Durango