Hasn't been much of a vacation so far
I've been banging on doors for the past few days as head of the Mashpee SEPAC to try to make some sense of the school committee and how they're managing a decision to outsource special ed van transportation.
What I've learned, and what shocks me the most, is that the school committee is answerable to no one in town. The board of selectmen, outside of giving them a number to work with for their total budget, has absolutely no authority over how the school committee operates our how they use their budget whatsoever. The school committee is basically only answerable to the Department of Education.
It's a bizarre system, and to my thinking, it's undemocratic. It's also unfortunate that despite repeated attempts, no one on the committee seems interested in talking with the SEPAC about this issue. It's frustrating as hell.