Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Kudos to Coonrod for Chamber speech story

It was helpful to read Coonrod's clarifying account of the school administration's presentation at the Chamber of Commerce lunch last week, but sad to see how Robinson frames the controversy in our district as "an artificial construct." If only that were so.

I do agree with him that, "Someone has to break up the fight." One good way to break up a fight is for one of the fighters to walk away. It doesn't sound like he plans to in the immediate future, though.

When people are elected to oversee a government district, and the hired manager of the district enrages so many customers and disrespects members of the elected governing board, it's time for the board to fire the manager, if he won't resign.

The argument that he has a three-year contract that must be renewed annually or he can sue his employers (the board) for non-renewal makes no sense. Have any of us who aren't employed in public education ever had a deal like that?

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