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Thursday, December 23, 2010

NYC Public School Parents: Goodbye and good riddance to Joel Klein

NYC Public School Parents: Goodbye and good riddance to Joel Klein

Goodbye and good riddance to Joel Klein


Joel Klein's last (hopefully) Principals Weeklyreminds us of some of his worst qualities – his pretentiousness and hypocrisy.

Harold Levy came in as Chancellor quotingWallace Stevens; Klein leaves quoting T.S. Eliot. (What is it with these corporate lawyers posing as educators; is it intellectual insecurity?)

Klein quotes these lines, from Eliot's Little Gidding:

"We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time."

Sounds like a a dog chasing his own tail -- an inadvertent metaphor for the perpetual cluelessness of