More on the Grand Jury recommendations.

Maybe those first two words should be closer together.  Moron.

Take a look:

"The way it stands now the District has ten bosses, nine of which have no particular expertise in, the running of a large multi-billion dollar school district.   And it should be obvious that the more people involved in a decision the less individual accountability there can be. Returning power to a Superintendent and reducing the influence of the Board should be the goal."

Using that twisted reasoning, a city commission has five members who have no expertise in running a city corporation, and a county commission has nine members that have no expertise in running a county wide corporation.

The insanity continues:

"We see no way of making that happen and getting it to stick without moving to an elected Superintendent. We understand it seems to' go against the grain to solve the problem of too many politicians by creating another political office."

The expert advice from civics failures drones on:

"Electing the Superintendent certainly has it's drawbacks, one of which will be limiting the search for a Superintendent to just Broward, and it's likely that the position will be filled by a politician rather than an educator. Many Florida counties do rely on elected Superintendents however, and having an elected Superintendent would bring back accountability, something sorely lacking at the Board for many, many years. It's not an easy choice, but the behavior of the Board over the last 20 years makes it, easier."

So what we have is a Grand Jury slamming nine politicians who in its warped opinion obviously "have a natural desire to be at the public cash register" doing a complete about face to recommend hiring a tenth.

Somebody is hallucinating.

Sam Fields venting on Broward Beat had it right:  Another politician soliciting donations from those who do business with the School Board.

Good or bad, what we have right now is a Superintendent who must be licensed to teach and at least a Master's degree in education, and if I remember correctly, more than 20 years experience in the field.

Either that, or an individual with a college degree and a background as a corporate CEO (I'll bet you didn't know that one.)

Plus the added ability to choose from a nationwide pool of candidates.

In its unquestioned blog media mentality, the Grand Jury recommends electing a Superintendent, narrowing the choice of candidates to registered voters of Broward County (not all residents) who have been registered to vote for at least six months.

Badda bing, badda boom...  Those are the only qualiifications for an elected Superintendent candidate.

The candidate doesn't even need a GED, just a good schmooze for the voters and a crack campaign manager.

Oh, yes, and plenty of campaign cash.

And one more thing...

According to the state's education code, fs 1001.48 Secretary and executive officer of the district school board.—The district school superintendent shall be the secretary and executive officer of the district school board..  (Emphasis added)

Appointed or elected.

And I thought only district staff couldn't find its own ass with two hands and a flashlight.