As a taxpayer in Auburn and an Auburn School Department employee, I’m supposed to walk a fine line when it comes to voicing my opinions about school business.

I’m a fantastic parent, I could be a better husband, I pay my local property taxes, I never miss a vote, I work my tail off for the students and staff of Edward Little High School, I try to shop local as much as possible, I pick up after my dog puts down, I’m conscientious at four-way stops, I never spit on the sidewalk, my vehicle gets 40-plus mpg, I turn the lights off when I’m the last to leave a room, I’m an excellent role model for an overwhelming majority of Auburn’s school kids, I’m always trying to make people laugh and I donate blood to the Red Cross —O+/universal donor.

For far too long, a small, but loud number of citizens, recent and longstanding, have subjugated public opinion to fulfill whatever ill informed end to which they race. This means bashing the leadership of the school department frequently and ferociously in hopes that no one will pay attention to the overwhelming lack of facts that make up the core of whatever is the distraction.

This behavior needs to stop. We need discourse, not bullying. We need an exchange of ideas, not unveiled threats to abuse one’s shallow position in a media outlet. We need facts and not the touting of off-base opinion as though it were factual.

Todd Mogul, Auburn