Terry Grier may be headed to a new job in Houston after spending only a year in San Diego.
He has been praised in San Diego for being fast and inventive and for delivering results.
He also has been divisive; his supporters love him; his detractors don't.
Sound familar?
That's Grier's style. I'll give him credit for making tough calls, even if they antagonize some corners of the community.
In Guilford County, Grier inspried similarly extreme reactions as in San Diego.
He had once hinted strongly that Guilford County might be his last stop and that he would retire here.
As he appears to be working on possibly his third superintendent's post in three years, those remarks seem so long ago and far away.
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