z39\doc\web\2000\02\supsear.txt
Date sent:      	Tue, 08 Feb 2000 22:00:40 -0500
To:             	cjo@ior.com
From:           	Cindy Omlin <cjo@ior.com>
Subject:        	Superintendent Search


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Who Wants to Be a Superintendent?


The Clark County (Nevada) superintendent of public schools is retiring at the 
end of this school year.  So the school board charged a special committee, 
led by political rain-maker Sig Rogich, with the task of hiring a 
professional head-hunting firm to find a replacement ... with embarrassing 
results.  The head-hunter came up with five potential candidates - all of 
whom, for various reasons, “crapped out” for the job ... which education 
bureaucrats insist requires a compensation package in the range of a whopping 
quarter million dollars a year.  You’d think, at that level, we’d be 
interviewing the cream of the crop.  Alas, Rogich’s search committee spent 
hundreds of thousands of dollars looking for “Mr. Right” - only to come up 
with squat.  Enter Jamie Huston.  In an extremely humorous and bitingly 
sarcastic letter-to-the-editor to Las Vegas Weekly (January 20-26), Jamie - a 
“twenty-something education major at UNLV” - offers herself up for the 

position ... going so far as to “sacrifice my entry-level wages as a teacher 
and work for a measly, piddling $100,000 a year.”  Jamie’s qualifications?  
“My UNLV indoctrination has prepared me to be a quality leader in 
cutting-edge curriculum and instruction,” she writes.  “I can spout all the 
right buzzwords and quote all the trendy experts.  Just listen to my mission 
statement:  ‘Celebrate diversity and multicultural empowerment with a vision 
of inclusive self-awareness and raise test scores if there’s any time left 
over.’  As superintendent, I will spearhead dozens of needless programs that 
will consistently disappoint everybody.”  Jamie continues by explaining how 
she’d do her job:  “After researching the superintendent’s position, I have 
found that he doesn’t actually do anything.  I will delegate paperwork to my 
army of underlings, make token appearances at social events ... and humbly 
continue my service as an educator of our youth if my golf schedule permits.” 
 Stop the search, Siggy!  We’ve found our winner!


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