One problem I have with Guilford County Board of Education member Garth Hebert is that he often expresses his views in rather quixotic terms, as he did here in the Chalkboard’s discussion on finalists for the GCS superintendent’s job, Shirley Prince and Mo Green.

Maybe I’m just not smart enough to keep up with Hebert. But he expresses himself in a more straightforward manner in today’s N&R write-up:

Hébert, a Guilford school board member, said he was displeased with the work done by the search firm Ray and Associates. Hébert said that although Prince’s résumé was impressive, she ranked third on his list. Green lacks managerial experience, Hébert said.

“I’d rather go back to the drawing board,” he said. “I think the search firm did us a terrible disservice.”

Hébert also worried that the board would have to hire Green’s wife, a former school psychologist with CMS, as a package deal.

Green said his wife, Stephanie, currently a stay-at-home mother, was not discussed during the interview process.

“In my estimation, and I’m biased, she is a tremendous individual and she would be a tremendous school psychologist,” Green said.

Interesting. Just like GCS already has a Smith Moore lawyer heading the school board, administrative offices have a husband-wife duo that fled from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, as the Rhino noted back in 2007, via Erik Huey (bold mine):

Another relatively new face to the school system is Chief of Staff (now co-interim superintendent) Eric Becoats. Becoats, who joined the schools in 2005-2006, also has somewhat of an interesting employment history. Prior to joining Guilford County Schools, Becoats worked for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). Becoats left in a hurry from his position as associate superintendent after CMS board members accused him of abusing his privileges by using CMS telephones, computers and an employee for his personal consulting business.

Becoats’ wife joined the Guilford County Schools’ staff during the 2006-2007 school year in Guilford County. Jocelyn Becoats was hired in July 2007 as an instructional improvement officer to work in Allen Jay, Brown Summit, Ferndale, Hairston, Jamestown, Kernodle, Kiser, Northeast, Penn-Griffin and Southeast middle schools.

As the N&R notes in this morning’s lead editorial, this hire is definitely not a ‘no-brainer.’