POLITICALLY SPEAKING: School boss tries a new look
March 28, 2007
State schools Superintendent Mike Flanagan brought an electric razor on stage when he spoke at the Governor's Education Summit in Lansing Monday.
Then, in front of several hundred school officials gathered for lunch, he began to trim his beard.
BZZZZ!
Twice during his 20-minute presentation, he took the razor to his gray foliage to illustrate his theme that school officials must transform themselves to educate kids in an increasingly competitive global economy.
When he removed a little more mustache than he wanted, he joked, "I'm going for the Pennsylvania Dutch look." (Apparently, Flanagan decided later for aesthetic reasons to take it all off, and he showed up for work Tuesday clean-shaven.)
He told the crowd Monday, "I want to burn into your brains that this is about our decisions ... All kids can do it if we're willing to transform."
Tell that to Britney Spears.
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