Once infused with enough new members to break away from the scandal-ridden former administration, this board responded to demands for change by ousting Joseph P.DeJohn as superintendent and initiating a nationwide search for a new top administrator. The board wants an experienced superintendent to head the district. A district like Brandywine, with talent and resources, should be able to attract a person with solid experience. As the board and the community now recognize, allowing one of the top districts in Delaware to be a superintendent's training ground was a big mistake. The district has suffered for that mistake.
Morale is low in all quarters.
The school board still has members whose divisiveness and loyalty to the discredited DeJohn regime make attempts at real healing all but impossible. This is an outrage. And yet, there are those in the Brandywine community who seem to yearn for the old ways. They have been privately encouraged by district and state officials to pursue their misguided goals. Hiring someone from the outside is the only way Brandywine can begin its long trek to recovery.