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Mr. Nadeau is a teacher hater and every decision he makes is based on this. Let's look at what he has said about teachers in the Warwick Beacon over the last decade or so.

-Said teachers were like vultures waiting to feed on the battered bodies of Warwick taxpayers in 2003.

-Called teachers educational terrorists in 2003.

-Said the contract dispute of 2004 was only attributable to the Warwick Teachers Union in 2004.

-Called the teachers union president an educational dictator in 2004.

-Said there were many excellent and devoted teachers in Warwick but they are the silent minority in 2004.

-Said the education of Warwick students will only come second to outright greed in 2005.

-Called teachers educational malcontents in 2005.

-Called Warwick teachers pathetic and disruptive in 2006.

-Said Mayor Avedisian is in bed with the unions in 2006.

-Said teachers were financially raping the city of Warwick in 2006.

-Decides to change his tone in 2010 since he was running for School committee and says teacher in Warwick were dedicated.

-Says the unions could control the votes on the school committee in 2011.

-Says that he believes the unions are in control of the Warwick school system in 2011.

-Tried to say it was not a personal vendetta against us when he was the only committee member to not sign the contract agreement in 2012.

-Said Warwick teachers were holding the district hostage last month at the school committee meeting.

Lets take a look at the status of the Warwick School Department in the last few years since Mr. Nadeau has been a member of the school committee. All of the following have happened under his watch.

-Our school system is on its 4th superintendent since 2012.

-Superintendent Horoschak was relieved of his duties and the beacon reported that his departure was cloaked in secrecy.

-The school dept had to pay him $272,302 for all of 2012 when he did not work as well as the remainder of his contract. The public still has not been told why he was let go.

-Dr. D'Agostino is forced into retirement after a story breaks about the mishandling of a discipline matter at Gorton. The school committee goes to court to keep the independent report out of public view and recently lost.

-School Department suddenly puts the former lawyer and current head of HR on leave which seems like they are trying to get out in front of what the soon to be released Rogasta report might say.

-School dept spent more than $250,000 of taxpayer funds to have a private firm give us our best consolidation option and then simply threw this advice in the trash.

-School Committee is caught on audio tape posted on their own site speaking before the start of meeting and saying how they want to try and limit the public comment portion of the meeting to 30 seconds, an unprecedented move.

-The mayor calls for a new superintendent search after the school committee removes a teacher supported candidates name from the running in a vote that was supposed to be done in public as is required by law.

-The school committee has refused to let teachers be a part of the various consolidation committees that have been set up effectively shutting out the people that have the most experience in the schools and spend the most time with Warwick's students.

-The committee recently sent a letter to the union requested that they want to go to arbitration even though they had a mediation date set. They would like to use their new well paid lawyer to do their job for them rather than performing their elected duty to negotiate in good faith with teachers.

-This article is unfair and only shows how much teachers do for free on a regular basis. The beacon needs to spend as much time looking into the above mishaps and let the public know what is really going on in the school department.