Bye-bye Mr. Mike.

I know Mayor Rawlings is going to hate this because will place copious amounts of egg on his face, but the Dallas School Superintendent, Mike Miles is leaving, even though the mayor has given him his unending support.  (Some people like lost causes.)

And it is about time. It is time for Miles to go. Period.

I have said it in this column before and i will say it again. He was never in tune with the Dallas schools and never understood the scope of the problem facing an urban school district.  He was overmatched from day one.

But he could raise political capital when he needed it.  And lots of it.  Unfortunately his administration mis- appropriated real capital and that was his undoing. That, and he screwed with very popular schools and their principals who were doing good jobs.  Why?  To be vindictive.

Mike Miles was a little man with a huge ego.

Dallas needs just the opposite to run our schools.  We need a giant with an ego that is sensitive enough to listen.

Good-bye Mike. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

On another note, but one that has to do with leadership, Kudos to President Obama for speaking out so openly about racism in America.

And here is a strange kudo coming from me...to Ted Cruz for not returning his money from the Concerned Conservative Citizens (the extreme right wing racist organization) but instead donating that money to the families of victims on south Carolina. Good play, Ted.