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First, nice trick there likening my "facts" to talking points - classic rhetorical maneuver made to undercut my own opinion and research. For every "fact" you cite from your chosen expert, I can match you with an opposing study/expert--these appeals to authority ultimately end up convincing no one (confirmation bias). That's the world we live in. And I'm definitely no defender of either the Admin, School Committee or City Council. I do have one question though: how come no teachers stepped up to served on the LTFPC? I know they were invited and refused. WISE had representation, why not the WTA?

That's interesting about Winman and is most certainly not the way things are done at Aldrich (where my children attended). Teams are reconstituted each year and teacher teams are also swapped. I wonder why the inconsistency? (But that's an entirely different argument--for one district, Warwick certainly has many disparate 'common practices'). For the record, I agree with you regarding the admin building-pick one and that should be enough. As for the positions, I can see both sides of the argument, as I said. Regarding the surpluses, I also have problems with them, however more than a few had to do with disparities between the Warwick budgeting calendar and the calendar for money distributed for grants and from the feds, etc. That certainly doesn't account for all of the surpluses, for sure. There certainly is an impression of the "School Administration that cried wolf". However, that being said, it is seriously misguided to take anything the City Council has to say seriously. The numbers there don't lie and are out there. While the School's budget has remained relatively flat, the city has gone up.