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RISchadenfreude,

Your property taxes are going up, not down. The money that the school committee is "saving" by cutting teaching positions is not resulting in a lower school budget- They are simply taking money that paid teacher salaries and spending it on glitzy technology crap. At the last couple of school committee meetings, they approved something like 600,000 dollars in immediate, outside the budget spending, mostly on laptop and desktop computers for administrators, video surveillance equipment, and to pay an outside company over 300,000 a year to link all of our schools to the police and fire departments. Oh, and they are also paying 7500 a month to a PR firm, and ridiculous sums of money to an expensive law firm. Did you know they paid an outside firm to come in and make a flow chart of who reports to who in the administration?

Do you realize that as the number of students and teachers go down, the amount of school administrators in Warwick continues to go up?

Yup, I'm pissed off- and it isn't with the people that actually work with my kids. I have learned a lot and had my eyes opened by attending a lot of meetings in the last couple of years.

I can't answer about every teacher in the district, but my children are in the Warwick School system, and they have had a hell of a lot of good teachers, many who have gone waaaay out of their way to help or look out for my kids. I also can tell you that as far as my kids classes are concerned, they certainly are not small. Most have been in the 25-28 range. I don't think they really can cut that many teachers and make it work... Last year, they could have cut 20 teachers, and they cut 9- then they hired 6 back, because they couldn't make the schedules work without them. I think it is just a bullshit publicity stunt to pretend they don't need more city funding. This way they can buy all their technology crap, and then when the courts, and reality, force them to hire back most of those teachers, pretend they didn't know it was going to happen and ask for more money.