Goodbye and good riddance to Joel Klein
Joel Klein's last (hopefully) Principals Weeklyreminds us of some of his worst qualities – his pretentiousness and hypocrisy.
Harold Levy came in as Chancellor quotingWallace Stevens; Klein leaves quoting T.S. Eliot. (What is it with these corporate lawyers posing as educators; is it intellectual insecurity?)
Klein quotes these lines, from Eliot's Little Gidding:
"We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time."
Sounds like a a dog chasing his own tail -- an inadvertent metaphor for the perpetual cluelessness of