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Dear Cat2222,

You make a good point as usual.

However, when you cut the number of teachers as much as the School Committee (SC) has done, you are required to cut "last-in first-out". Therefore the teachers that are left are the more expensive kind. True that the vast majority of the SC budget goes to teachers salaries, pensions, and benefits, but it ALWAYS has, and it always will. I have never argued that. What I have argued is that they had to fight for two years to get a 3%+- raise. Not a 20% raise. A 3% raise. That was horribly wrong of Avedisian, and I felt it was destructive to the Warwick Schools reputation. Years ago people moved INTO Warwick because of the schools. More recently they have moved OUT, because of them. I blame Avedisian; NOT the teachers for that.

Solomon is a definite upgrade. I can't imagine he would refuse to sit and talk with the teachers like Avedisian did, and he now has the opportunity to be just as selfish and controlling with his new $40 million dollar credit card as Avedisian was with the $25 million dollar credit card of 2006...OR...he can be a smarter, fairer politician. Time will tell and people like you and me will give credit if he does, and criticize if he doesn't. That is a quality I think we both share. Others will disagree with me if I say the sky is blue. Their comments are useless. I have always respected yours however, even when they don't agree with mine.

Happy Thanksgiving Cat2222,

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor