School superintendents are the worst kind of bureaucrats who will do anything they see as popular to keep their cushy high-paying jobs. He was inundated with liberal ideas from big city school officials so he followed their lead. He failed to realize that the more rural locals were not going to accept that. This is great to show bureaucrats that they better know their local community or they will be booted out. Of course, he will go to a more liberal area and do fine.