INDICATIONS THAT SUPERINTENDENTS ARE PLACED, NOT PICKED:
My takeaway from this experience is that a school board of a major school district in Texas is just fooling itself if it really thinks it is picking it's superintendent. Those people are PLACED, not picked. And it doesn't matter which headhunter is hired; in my opinion, they're all in on the deal. It's the reform agenda that is primary.
FYI, there is evidence (HCAD documents) that Leonard Merrell purchased his home in Katy BEFORE this member of the Board ever heard his name as one of the finalists! If I were one of the other three candidates, I would be angry about that! [I discuss that matter elsewhere on this website.]
Also, if one looks at the SBEC website to view Certification of Texas Educators, one finds the document posted below. (No superintendent certification visible---I'm guessing a plain old administrator certificate sufficed! So if that's the case, why do we pay so much for these people? Why mention in the prospectus that the candidate "must be "certifiable as a superintendent in Texas"? How do we know he was "certifiable as a superintendent unless he takes the superintendent's certification test and gets the certification?) (And there is the possibility that he received a superintendent's certification and that it has expired but there is no record of that on the SBEC web site as it is for other former superintendents.)
Also, please notice that residence within the District was a requirement as announced in the brochure circulated by Bob Thompson as a recruitment item. However, a year before he left the District, Leonard Merrell built a huge house in the Waller County ISD.
So much for "requirements"!
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