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Mr. Corrente,

I believe I addressed a potential solution in the letter. Again, the current system isn't working not because of the system but because orf the people in it. We have Council members who, for example, speak publicly against consolidation and then criticize the schools for not consolidating. We have a Mayor who forced the schools to assume principal and interest on their bonded indebtedness back in '09 and that initial $190K annual burden is now $1.2 million. We have and have had a ridiculously high animosity level betweem the WTU and the SC, and the SC and the Council and the SC and the Mayor because these people can't get out their own way. They talk at each other intead of to each other and none of them can handle the slightest criticism. Everybody has their guard up and doesn't trust each other and no one wants to be the first to change. Worse, in my view, is that the Council and the Mayor are ignorant to just what comprises the school's budget and how the State and Federal govt dictate where most of the monies can be spent. They simply have an inablilty to put themselves in the other's shoes. it's not blood plasma, Mr. Corrente and, I might add, just about every other city and town operates within the same system and at nowhere near the level of distrust. Tennyson also said “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down" - and that's what we have going on today.