Nancy Sebring keeps telling Narcisse, “Come to the board with your concerns.” But they do not listen to him when he tries to do just that. At his very first meeting, he complained that he did not have time to review a large document but was being asked to vote on it anyway – it may have been the budget. And they essentially told him, “too bad.” How many times did he insist that the graduation rate figures were inaccurate, only to have them brush him off? And how many times have they simply accepted figures that were given to them, without really studying them to look for signs of inaccuracy?

The board protests his criticisms because those criticisms are direct, and personal, and they hit too close to home. They are, also, often “over the line” of civility in public discourse. But, Narcisse takes those criticisms to the public because the board doesn’t seem to want to hear them. I encourage him to continue to do so, because I DO want to hear it.