It might be safe to say that Anthony Amato, New Orleans school superintendent, arrived into town with an arrogant attitude. After having a successful career in Hartford, Conn., and with the New York City school system, Amato acted as if our school systems’ problems were just like anyone else’s.

That was his first problem. But luckily for him, it was balanced by his brilliant ideas and commitment to the system. His background gave him superb knowledge of how to reform an academic system.

And we, the entire city, happily welcomed Amato, and even voted out the five school board members that tried to fire him. Maybe on some part, we set our standards too high. When a mistake was made on Amato’s part, our image of him came crumbling down.

While his ideas and vision of what he could do for us were intriguing and inspiring, they were just not big enough to hide his faults in the financial aspect of the job.

Reports showed the financial status of the school system only worsened under his reign. And recently under Amato’s eye, a check for millions of dollars in tax revenue almost failed to make it to the bank in time, which would have caused a lot of payroll checks to bounce, according to The Times-Picayune.

But while we could all sit here, point fingers and blame Amato or the school board or whoever else involved, it can be agreed that the administration might have worked better if everyone had been on the same side. Perhaps if the school board members had not acted the same age as the children they represent or not been so power-hungry, more could have been done to prevent both sides’ mistakes.

Maybe if this inside bickering stops, the next superintendent will last longer than two years and two months.