Who the hell’s calling so early?

“This is Maurice ‘Mo’ Green. As I start my first day as superintendent of Guilford County Schools, I plan to listen and learn to help the children of Guilford County.”

OK, I’m paraphrasing, because I’d only had one cup of coffee when Mo called. Meanwhile Elon University professor David Noer weighs in on Green’s lack of education experience:

I fear that Mo Green will find himself losing ground on a slippery slope at the bottom of which lies a continuation of the bureaucratic swamp of political correctness, racial tension and mediocrity that constitutes much of public education today. The jury is still out — in fact it has yet to convene — as to whether a school board comprised of many single-issue, one-dimensional members can actually conjure up the tolerance to let him lead. Even if this happens it is by no means clear that Green has the very rare ability to overcome the training and skills that got him where he is — legal and analytical – and function as a leader. If he is unable to provide true leadership, the school board is spending a quarter of a million dollars a year of our money in salary — not counting the cost of a deluxe benefit package that exceeds most in the private sector — on a high-level bureaucrat with no educational credentials whom we neither need nor can afford.