Curious Thing #1 - Superintendent Search (The Sequel)

Member of the Secret Search Committee

This week's School Committee Agenda shows another 6 PM meeting with the Consultants for the Superintendent Search.  This is at least the second off-camera meeting regarding the process the Committee intends to follow to replace the Superintendent they may have ousted last summer.

I assume it will be a public meeting -- there's nothing in OML that would exclude it from public view yet.  But, unless somebody just happens to be cruising the Town Clerk's bulletin board, or regularly checking school committee agendas -- you might miss the fact that the Committee will be gathering an hour before the cameras are scheduled to arrive to discuss the most important thing a School Committee does -- hire a new Superintendent.

While this may be a public meeting, for a group that screamed about "lack of transparency" and "back room deals" involving the last school committee it seems strange that they would go to such great lengths to keep the public from seeing what they are doing this time.

It is starting to smell just like the last Superintendent Search Committee.  Unfortunately, this time around it is unlikely that this school committee will recognize a Bag Job and throw out the "results".   (Although since the last search committee only managed to produce two out of state finalists who didn't bother to come back for a second interview, and one local candidate who had already been turned down by several other districts -- I would venture that they never actually produced ANY  results!)