How about a former top cop?

Like the Brewers, Blaska Policy Werkes is built for the off-season!

Once every blue moon, the Head Groundskeeper does what he says he is going to do. Posing as average citizen “David Blaska,” he sat in with eight other citizens at one of three roundtables coordinated 10-04-23 by the headhunters hired by the Madison public school district to find yet another a new superintendent.

Monica Santana Rosen, head priestess of the Chicago-based Alma Advisory Group, moderated Blaska’s table. Must say, she was equanimous — especially when one self-righteous scold tried to censor Blaska’s comment that our schools should quit with the diversity, equity & inclusion scam and teach, instead, the one skill essential to all learning: self-discipline. Too many kids are not learning it at home. Our schools teach grievance and victimhood, instead. And bad manners, judging by that table mate.

→ The Scold responds and is responded to.

A bit later, Blaska asked a 40-year school volunteer at our table who she thought were the last good superintendents for MMSD and why. Suffice to say, the last two — Jennifer Cheatham and Carleton Jenkins — did not make the cut. There was also agreement that teachers hate the Behavior Education Plan, which wrests control of the classroom away from teachers and concentrates it in the Doyle Administration Building.

Rosen, as quoted by The Capital Times, adequately captured the sense of our table and perhaps the two others when she observed, “People really want somebody who is dedicated to Madison, someone who’s committed to being here, that’s really important to people.”

Blaska posited that the statute requiring school district supers to possess a doctorate in educational administration should be scrapped. They’re all marinated in critical race theory. Just as Tommy Thompson guided the UW system, think of how former mayor Dave Cieslewicz would be a good fit for Madison public schools. Or Kaleem Caire. Former mayor Joe Sensenbrenner? The crossing guard outside Toki middle school? Maybe Joe Parisi (if he wasn’t more Woke than a unionized Starbucks taste tester). We hear the county exec IS available. Me, I like Mike Koval for the job.

Blaska’s Bottom Line: Is the legislature less likely to throw $614 million at American Family Field now that the Brewers have collapsed (once again) in the post-season? Do you blame Jesse Winker like we do?

Who do YOU think would make a good school super?