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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are so delusional. Yes, compared to NYC, MoCo is a backwater, the minor league, a bush league. Maybe a serious mayor would have considered Michelle Rhee, but even she was not of the caliber – Cory Booker tried to recruit her for Newark. The City Council would raise hell if some hick was selected to run the city schools. The dynamic in NYC would be another world to someone from MCPS. The struggles faced by the schools at the bottom of the system to the demands of the top students at the City’s top school, Stuyvesant, which has produced four Nobel laureates, are unlike anything experienced in MoCo. You have schools that cater to gays and schools that cater to single mothers. You have students who are 21 and allowed to attend school with students who are 13. Most high schools have metal detectors. MoCo does not face these issues so why would the Mayor hire someone to run the schools system who has no experience with the challenges faced by NYC. The press would eat the Mayor alive. My guess is the Mayor will try to hire someone of the stature of a Larry Summers but obviously not him. If you want to keep this discussion alive to make you feel good about MoCo – That your school superintendent is being considered for the biggest job in education – Please feel free but know that the idea is a complete joke to anyone who has lived in NYC.[/quote]

I think most posters aren't interested in the prestige factor that might come with the possibility of Starr being a candidate.  I think this thread would probably be just as lively if word got out that Starr was being considered for a job in a small town in the mid-west.  He talks a lot about the importance of hope, and I think the possibility of a new superintendent just keeps the hope alive for a lot of MOCO DCUMers.[/quote]

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