From Linton Deck, Former Superintendent of Schools, Orange County Public Schools

The upcoming referendum regarding the creation of an elected chair of the School Board of Orange County has been brought to my attention by friends and former colleagues.

The proposal seems to me to be totally without merit.

I cannot imagine how an elected chair of the School Board, as proposed in the November 4 referendum, could have positive impact on the Orange County Public Schools.

Such an arrangement, in my opinion, would politicize the governance of the school system in very negative ways with no benefit to students in the schools of Orange County.