"Momma don't allow...

no guitar pickin' 'round here." So the song goes.

Commissioner Gendron isn't "Momma."

We're not talking about guitar picking.

So let's modify the song!

Susan don't allow no District 'picking 'round here!

For all the conniving and calculating evidenced in the couple of memos we've excerpted here, the maneuvering exhibited there may be too clever by half.

Here's a prediction: the Department of Education is not going to allow SAD 68 to be isolated.