I had the good fortune to interview Dr. Michael Cary, Ed.D., the new superintendent of the Cloquet schools, on “Harry’s Gang” this week.

Cary has been on the job since last summer, and is now just halfway through his first school year in Cloquet.

He has quite an interesting story. His undergraduate degree is in biology and chemistry at UMD, and he went into education afterward, teaching at a couple of schools before becoming a principal of a high school in Bismarck, N.D. He eventually became director of curriculum at the Duluth schools, which he described as “sort of an assistant su...