Here's something expirational!

OK, imagine you're a parent in Detroit, where it has just been found that 47% of the adult population is functionally illiterate despite some of the highest per capita spending in the state and nation on education.  You've been hoping and praying for your kids' sake that the Governor will appoint someone from outside who can see clearly what's going wrong.

And so you're getting excited when the Governor promises to do just that, and.....then it turns out that the appointee is a former executive from bankrupt automobile company General Motors.   

And then you're not quite so hopeful anymore, for obvious reasons.  Here's some more about the appointee; suffice it to say he's got his work cut out for him, and I personally think "getting kids ready for college" is sadly an overly optimistic charter for his administration.  Hopefully he's honest enough to admit that his primary charter is not to get a lot of kids into college, but rather get them to be able to read.