Topeka Capital-Journal
Talk to superintendents, and they will say that much of their job revolves around figuring out how to make decisions that make the fewest people angry.
That way, if you manage to upset 10% in a given year, after five years, you will only have angered half of the community, joked David Howard, superintendent at Basehor-Linwood Unified School District 458.
He was only half joking, and that has become especially clear in one of the most difficult years for Kansas education on record.
Accustomed to the pressures of stretching school funding to make the most of every dollar or making unpopular decisions like declining to have snow days, Kansas superintendents this year are being pushed past their limits, leading to a significant increase in superintendent resignations and early retirements.