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Mr. Salerno regarding your claim that, “Last Wednesday, on Dan Yorke’s talk show, Mr. Cushman, a former school committee person, stated that there is a ratio of 15 students to one teacher”: Since I did not believe I made that statement, I requested the audio from WPRO and listened to my comments as well as those from Mr. Rob Coti who also appeared on the show.

At no time did I bring up the issue of class size in my conversation with Dan. Hopefully your motivation to write this letter wasn’t simply an attempt to discredit me and my call for school consolidation, and you made an honest mistake.

As proof please paste this link into your browser and listen to my conversation from the Dan Yorke show on Wednesday, December 11, 2013.

http://stationcaster.com/stations/wpro/media/mp3/Bob_Cushman___Rob_Cote_12_11-1387377296.mp3

Also, I am aware of the fact that some teachers do not have classes and many other important point of information regarding class size as I did experience the process of negotiating a contract with the Warwick Teachers’ Union where this and teacher financial compensation was a major point of contention in that three plus year process.

What troubles me the most about your letter is your apparent lack of understanding of the destructive budgetary trends that have occurred over the last decade when you write that the city “has been managed extremely well by Mayor Avedisian and the City Council”.

Do you have any proof to backup this claim or is this another attempt by you to make the appearance of fact, support your false claim?

Warwick is experiencing serious financial problems that have been ignored and exacerbated by Mayor Avedisian and City Council decisions for years that is directly effecting schools today.

Please copy this link and then let me know if you still believe either one of your two statements are true.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6P1sIPd4PTdTkI5WF9NM1pjVXM/edit?usp=sharing

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