Football

When Marshall Weinberg campaigned for the Massillon Board of Education four years ago, he claimed he would bring his business expertise to our schools. He would run our school system like a business. It would be academics first, because it was all about the kids.

Well, at least it was all about the kids who play football...

It was a smokescreen. Weinberg's campaign was a smokescreen to cover the fact that he was going to lead the football boosters and assorted self proclaimed 'friends of the program,' back to their role as the prominent and dominant faction in the governance of our schools.

He then set about to run Superintendent Lisa Carmichael out of town, because she wouldn't "get with the program," the football program, that is.

She wouldn't "complete the DREAM," the DREAM being a plan to make the head football the athletic director, and the assistant athletic director the offensive coordinator.

She had to go.

Because it's "all about the kids."

At least the kids who play football.

So then the quest for a new superintendent began.

The Ohio School Boards Association was brought in to make the search for a new superintendent a clean, fair, and transparent process.

It was, of course, a smokescreen.

Who was to be tricked?

Us.

The taxpaying public.

The real search was going on behind the scenes, behind closed doors, in secret, so we could recruit a superintendent who would "get with the program."

The football program that is.

Someone who would bow to the wishes of the 'friends of the program,' and those people who believe they own our high school football team.

Someone who has been properly vetted and is acceptable to the football boosters.

Someone who would agree to the 'reorganization' of the athletic department, who would make the head football coach the athletic director, who would employ one, possibly two assistant athletic directors, who would be football coaches, who would complete the "DREAM."

The DREAM being a plan to put football once again at the top of the athletic department, and actually at the top of the school system.

But they got caught.

http://www.indeonline.com/topstories/x1357377142/2-BOE-members-plan-secret-super-meeting-Thursday

And why were they doing this?

One word.

Football.

The rest is just a smokescreen.