Thursday, May 30, 2019

Time To Ponder And Wonder

Time has come for Green to flee the scene and it is a time of reflection about what went wrong. This time. Perhaps it is time to get past the immediate sting of what Dr. Billboards has done to us with our own money and consider that this master of PR is not the actual problem but is merely our most recent representation of a system structured for failure. We have a billion dollar business with bookkeeping and accounting practices designed to promote financial malfeasance. We have embedded incompetence that has not been removed or even weakened by law enforcement, who has tried, or by management, who really hasn't. The ecosystem is even worse. We seem to be surrounded by delusional parents who will vote for any eSPLOST under any circumstances because someone lays out the platitude that "it is for the children." How's that working for you?

This is NOT the time to look for a replacement who will "clean house." Instead it is time to examine this dilapidated structure starting at the very foundation creating a plan to build the system we need, the system we would build if we had nothing. Then and only then can we identify the qualities and capabilities needed to lead these schools to that destination.

Dr. Green is not the problem and his replacement is not the solution unless and until we step up to the plate and fix a broken system.