TDSB is too big thanks to amalgamation. It's an unwieldy behemoth. The Board employees about 40,000 people and has nearly 250,000 students.  I don't believe they can find anyone highly competent to run it.  Back when there was the Toronto, Etobicoke, North York & Scarborough Boards they were manageable and could focus on their local population.  It's being run by socialists.  Watch a further flight of middle class students to private & independent schools. They will forego a bigger house, cottage etc for their kids' education and will desert the public board.   More public schools will be closed and the discrepancy between haves and haves-not will be exacerbated.  As a consolation, they can say with pride that  there aren't any "Chiefs" working at the TDSB.