The Less Experience, The Better
I get it. The less experience and qualifications you have as an educational policy leader, the better. If you can play good defense and set nice picks, you’re qualified for the US Secretary of Education. If you’re part anti-Microsoft lawyer and part CEO of a random arm of a corporation, you can be chancellor of the biggest school system in the nation. Then, if you acquire too much experience from this position, you need to find someone who’s even less qualified than that.
Enter Cathie Black.
Scene 1:
Klein: “So Mike.”
Bloomberg: “Yes, Joel.”
Klein: “I’m done.”
B: “What do you mean you’re done?!”
K: “Yeah, that’s it, it’s over. I’m bored. I can only close so many schools, and the union can’t beat us so long as you keep pumping money into people like me. It’s not a challenge. Can’t I go beat up on Google or something?”