Morehouse ‘reassigns’ Noflin, names interim super

The Morehouse Parish School Board named an interim superintendent Tuesday night after moving the current superintendent, George Noflin, to an advisory role.

Board member Rick Hixon, District 4, said Noflin will serve until his contract expires June 30.

“I just don’t think the community embraced him as well as maybe they should have,” Hixon said. “The morale in the system was very, very low, and and the board felt like they needed to go in a different direction, and we didn’t really have time to wait.”

Hazel Sellers, elementary supervisor for the district, will act as interim superintendent until June 30.

“She’s been a very loyal, longtime employee of the school system,” Hixon said. “She’s done a great job for us in the past, and we felt like she was the right person to guide our system right now in these controversial times.”

Hixon said the board, ideally, could have a new superintendent named by April 1 so he or she has time to work with Sellers.

“We’re going to take our time, we’re going to make sure that we do a thorough search and try to find the best person we can possibly get to lead our system because our school system is going to have to through a fairly dramatic change.”

Hixon said the School Board has to decide on how the schools will be configured in the future, but an option he endorses is consolidating the parish’s four elementary schools into one new, state-of-the-art facility. He said the old building aren’t meeting the district’s needs.

“We’ve actually repaired them to death,” he said. “There’s really nothing else we can to to improve the quality of education in those facilities.”