You know why some School Board members and top administrators are walking around with tote bags emblzoned with a pic of Jimi Hendrix?
School Sup. Carlo Garcia, it turns out, has a theory about the district’s new Strategic Plan. As one person who received a bag told us, “He said reading the plan is like the first time you ever hear a Jimi Hendrix song — you don’t know whether you like it or not, but you realize it’s something totally amazing. And after you hear it a few times, you really come to appreciate it.”
Gentle Blythe, the district’s spokesperson, confirmed that that was the theory behind the bags. “He’s said it various different ways, but you have it basically right,” she said.
If you try to think about Arlene Ackerman ever doing or saying something like that, you get a sense of how different (and how much more upbeat) the school administration is under Garcia.