Second in a series. 

Re: “A McVarish Paean to LaRose” 

Scott McVarish, in the process of interviewing leading members of the school community for publication, after lavishly lauding School District Supt. Dave LaRose, said that “it’s not just him. An important part of his job has been hiring the right team of administrators. He has done an excellent job here, too.

“But there is not much public discussion on the future of the School District and the direction of the District. That is what I would like to see.”

The father of a fourth-grader at El Marino Language School, Mr. McVarish, an attorney, said that “while I think we can trust” Mr. LaRose and the five members of the School Board, “it won’t hurt to have a public discussion.

“What I am asking is, what can we do besides responding to issues of 2015?

“What and where should we be shooting for in 2016?” the former leader of a teachers union wants to know.

Mr. McVarish’s intention is to interview a dozen prominent school personalities.

“I have experience doing this,” he said. “When I was 19 years old, I wrote a book that was a best seller in the tiny country of New Zealand” during his two-year stay there/

Called ‘The Greening of New Zealand; New Zealanders’ Views of Green Altermatives,’ Mr. McVarish used the formula he now is employing, interviewing 20 persons.

“A lot of people are a lot smarter than I am,” he said. “But I am very good at finding them and getting their voices amplified.”

(To be continued)