POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
What do you expect when you hire an ex-football player to
run a school board?
The Director had a record of absolutely no genuine
achievement at the Hamilton Board from which he was hired.
In addition, he has always been a rather pathetic publicity hound,
running around to schools and meetings with a cameraman in tow to record all
the put-on smiles.
He was also known as a guy who couldn't look you directly in
the eye.
His international travel was self-promoting and costly, some
of it done quite surreptitiously, serving again no purpose but his own
advancement.
The Toronto Board was long dysfunctional when they took him
on, hoping against hope to get some results with disadvantaged kids or at least
to gain a long breathing space as people patiently wait for something new or
good to happen at the Board.
But that hope is delusional.
Starting an Afro-centric high school with six students?
Hiring your close relative as a school principal?
Failing to deal with any of the problems which are endemic
to this Board?
