Think superintendents get chewed up and spit out by the Kansas City School District? Try being the district’s public relations crew. People close to the district can name many a burned-out soul who departed the communications office. Some were ineffective by their own bumbling. Some were heavily monitored by superintendents who were crosswise with board members. Others were stuck with administrative hierarchies structured toward hiding information rather than disseminating it, even when the news was the sort of feel-good happenings that occur regularly in the district’s schools.