A Bedford School District Boner

The Bedford School District, having just passed a levy that was narrowly defeated the first time on the ballot, just showed the residents of Bedford improving our schools with new talent is not as important as rewarding failure.

After finally being relieved from the financial anchor of retiring Superintendent Marty Motsco, the district is claiming, after a national search, her flunky assistant was the best we could find.

From the PD

After a national search, the Bedford school board ended up hiring from within, choosing Sherman Micsak to replace the retiring Martha "Marty" Motsco.

Micsak, 52, has been assistant superintendent since 2001.

He began his career as a teacher and coach in the Lorain schools and then was an assistant principal in North Ridgeville. He has been with Bedford since 1992, serving as secondary supervisor and director of secondary education before becoming assistant superintendent. He starts his three-year contract with an annual salary of $131,500.

Micsak selection can be equated with choosing streak stained underwear over a pair of spanking new shiny skivvies. Personally, I would not give Sherm Micsak the cracked shells of 131,000 peanuts on the stadium floor after a Browns game. This guy is not fit to be head snot-wiper of a preschool class let alone an urban school district.

Not through marked improvement, but through creative math and watered down standards of the state report card, Bedford Schools were just barely elevated out of the basement of the continuous improvement category. That Micsak's starting salary would be higher than the outgoing Motsco is unfathomable from a district barely passing their last levy. That Micsak, after a nationwide search, was deemed the best candidate available is as believable as me becoming an Olympic Decathlon winner.

More upsetting is that the district paid money for this search, which now appears was nothing more than a cosmetic dog & pony show for their predetermined selection. I am told the national search was conducted only after being raised by involved parents. Which by the way, Micsak has repeatedly shown he is not receptive too. As immediate past president of the BHS PTSA, I am saying this from first hand knowledge.

We have a school board election coming up this November, with the struggling financial picture we face in our school district and our city, voters must force the candidates and incumbents running for re-election to show they are ready to make substantial change & fiscally responsible path in moving our district forward. This can be done by demanding a district-wide "performance audit" conducted by the State Auditor. Untold millions have been saved by ditricts across the state through the use of "school performance audits."

Sherm Micsak, should not be confused with his equally pompous, Friday night football buddy and Bedford School Board member Andrew Mizsak. Mizsak, the food throwing, parent threatening, over-bloated, "I love me" man-child who gave the district a national black eye is hopefully serving his last term as Bedford School Board member.

That would be unless voters in the Bedford School District are more stupid than they look.