Marshall Has a Point

As many faithful Massillon Review readers have concluded, the Massillon Review hasn't always been a big fan of Massillon School Board Member Marhsall Weinberg. When Weinberg was running for school board, he campaigned as someone who would put the kids first, run the schools "like a business," and would put academics ahead of athletics.

Once elected, Marshall Weinberg immediately became a "friend of the program," a football first booster who cheerfully toed the "football first" line. Weinberg became an adamant supporter of the "Athletic Department Reorganization," which was nothing more than a scam to give more power to the football program, its coach, and to formalize the primacy of football in Massillon school athletics.

Marshall reached (and we mean reached) to explain why making the head football coach the Massillon Athletic Director was the right thing to do;

"Recent issues, including an assistant coach and booster club member growing and selling marijuana, could have been avoided, Weinberg said, if the football coach could report directly to the superintendent" (The Independent, March 30, 2010).

Yes, if Jason Hall were athletic director, federally convicted Drug Lord Kevin Smith would have seen the light, and not started a marijuana growing operation that had Colombian Cartels marvelling at its complexity.

Of course, many problems in our school system could have been solved if only Marhsall Weinberg were school board president. How could we have been so blind.

"Weinberg, when asked if he'd considered serving as board president, said he had. In fact, he had hoped to be president this year, being the only veteran board member who hadn't yet held the title. The board opted instead to appoint Seesan."

"It is one of the issues that is tearing at the board," Weinberg said, "Unfortunately, because of the issues of legality, I can't discuss it in specifics, but it is not a decision made out of strength. Now we are all seeing the ramifications" (The Independent, August 12, 2010).

President Weinberg, of course, would have set things right. We wonder if, in his delusional grandeur, he realized he would have only been President of the Massillon Board of Education, not the other President, the one in Washington...

No matter. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut, and even Marshall Weinberg has a point...

(To be continued)