The School Board is vitally interested in maintaining effective communication with parents, members of the community, vendors, and others who have dealings with the Corporation. The Board realizes that although advances in technology provide the possibility of enhancing communications some innovations can also inhibit effective contact between the public and Corporation personnel.

In establishing the telephone system in the Corporation, the Board directs that incoming calls during regular school hours to the central office and to each school and operations office be answered by a live human being and not by a computer-generated voice. The reason is two-fold. The first is that schools exist to enhance the human condition and response by machine voice is dehumanizing. The second reason is to ensure that each caller's concern is dealt with in an expeditious manner.