Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Gloucester County’s school division has begun a process to replace soon to be retired superintendent Ben Kiser. On the school website, a survey that was due on March 18 asked parents and others in the community to check off “criteria” that will somehow aid a school board in making their choice of replacement candidates. The broad categories to score are leadership/management style; personal characteristics; interpersonal relations; financial acumen; and a catch-all—“areas of expertise”—that allows respondents to voice any special characteristics they might value in the person who will oversee a $50+ million enterprise. I’m guessing that no business in Gloucester or Mathews counties has a balance sheet that approaches $50 million.

At one of the links on the same school website is a peek at some of the “education” resources the school deems worthwhile. It’s called ReadWriteThink.org and touts its...