Auntie Charo's Soapbox

The new GPSS school superintendent is a smart person. He's a nice individual and on the radio the last couple of days, he said he's up for 'the challenge'. He said that as a school counselor, he's qualified for the job in the requirements for teaching classrooms for 5 years because he played counselor and the AG's office opened the loophole and said so. I don't begrudge the man the job because of that loophole, although, teaching children, between 24 to 30 of them at one time or another for 5 years is quite different than interacting with them as a counselor, but then, what are loopholes for?
But the real issue here is that the man has to be strapped to a wheelchair and must have someone at all times to wheel him around. The job as superintendent is on that's 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When earthquakes happen, he must be there to see what needs to be done right after it happens and not all of the damage is easy to manage when one is in a wheelchair. Likewise, when there's a typhoon, before, during and after, one must be physically strong enough to move about, sometimes hurriedly in order to get the job done, not an easy job for someone in a wheelchair. Then there's all the fuss that comes with the job, between the union, the teachers, the central office, the parents, and the press. Travis Coffman asked some pretty hard questions of the new Supe yesterday. Can the man stand the heat, day after day after day and still enjoy the job as well as being strapped in that wheelchair?
I'm sorry to say, Mr. Nice Guy got the job because the school board knows they can control Mr. Nice Guy and because they were told not to appoint Ms. Bretannia-Shaeffer(sp) because she's too smart, related to someone they don't like, or perhaps, four in the school board don't like her choice of politics. Whatever it was, the board's choice was anybody-but-Nerissa'.
I just hope that Mr. Luis Basa survives this appointment. I also hope that the U.S. DOE doesn't realize that the GPSS board chose him because they can control the man and that he'll do their bidding, because if they figure that out....we'll never get that $37Million......good-bye my money.....good-bye school books!
Between you-n-me........I think the U.S. DOE would have been very happy and would have released their money if Ms. Shaefer had been appointed......now me thinks they're gonna sit and think verrrrrrry hard about giving it away and if I were them.............I'd think hard, too!