It’s not easy being the Superintendent of Schools — especially when the Transportation Security Agency insistently has one’s name on a terrorist watch list.
The superintendent of the Clark County School District is not THAT Carlos Garcia.It’s a point local public schools leader Carlos Garcia has been trying to make to the Transportation Security Administration and Southwest Airlines for half a year now, with little success.
He’s provided the government with notarized copies of his passport, his driver’s license and his school district identification in an attempt to show he’s an educator by profession, not an international terrorist.
But nothing has been able to stop the red flag from rising nearly every time he travels by air.
“I think it’s important to have security, and I don’t want to seem unpatriotic by questioning that,” said Garcia, who oversees the nation’s fifth-largest public schools system.
“But my biggest frustration is that there’s got to be a way to get off the list, and no one seems to know what it is,” Garcia said. “If that’s the case and there isn’t one, then this is a flawed system that needs to be corrected.”
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