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On December 12, 2013 the school committee voted to hire an outside consultant to tell them what to do. That is, the school committee voted to hide behind a consultant. SEVEN MONTHS LATER, there is not only no plan, but also no consultant, and only a draft form of an RFP. It will be a miracle if a consultant is in place by Christmas, or over a year after a decision was made to hire one. And we all know where this is going: The school committee wants nothing to do with making difficult decisions, i.e. decisions they were elected to make. In any other industry, this entire sad bunch would have been fired months ago. And D'Agostino is correct, a 20 year plan is ludicrous. If you want to know why parents are not running, but rather sprinting to private schools, simply observe this mindless beaurocratic exercise in navel gazing.