Third in a series.
In the fourth and final year of his tenure as superintendent of the School District, Dave LaRose is one of those easy-to-know types whom you think you know but likely do not.
No one in Culver City is more outgoing, quintessentially congenial.
Not one of Culver City’s 40,000 residents enjoys schmoozing as much as Mr. LaRose.
He is leaving at the end of the school term in June to begin two new lives, personally and professionally. He probably is permanently separating from school administration, beginning a projected sabbatical of undetermined length, at least with newly graduated wife Mindy and sometimes his two daughters, an actress and a nurse.
The split from traditional education is coming now because he recently turned 50 years old.
“Fifty is a milestone that makes you really, really reflect,” Mr. LaRose said.
But how well do you really know him?
Perhaps not so much.
“One thing I wanted to make clear, and one of the reasons I made the decision (to resign) when I did (last month) is that this is not about what I am rushing to do,” Mr. LaRose said.
“This is not about what I am rushing to do. This is about where I feel that maybe it is time to step back from what I always have been doing.”
Mr. LaRose identified at least five reasons he is quitting education in its present form probably for keeps while he ponders his and his family’s tomorrows.
- “I am wound pretty tight.
- “I go pretty hard.
- “I have had a very, very tight schedule for the last 26 years.
- “I am very routine-oriented.
- “I will confess there is a bit of professional fatigue. And I always want to be able to give 110 percent.”
(To be continued)
