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Hey 3boys,

You obviously have more info than me. I don't know the fired people by name, just that a lot of people have been canned in this dysfunctional system and 1, that's a good thing and 2, from the outside they seem to have mostly happened since October. Not sure exactly when Thornton arrived but it was sometime around then so without every internal detail that someone outside the system could never know, he gets the credit. From the outside, it sure looks like cleaning house. I'm not an employee of the system and don't know who is doing the tube steak boogie in their office so whom to get credit for catching them "in the act" us unknown to the general public. Did someone really walk in on them??

The fact that nobody seems to want to talk about is that the student population of the city has gone way down in recent decades while the number of schools/teachers has not. We're paying to have half full and sometimes empty classrooms. Empty classrooms still run the heat, get cleaned, etc. They cost money. Something has to be done to close the schools we don't need and fortunately that is happening, slowly, very slowly ,it's public outcry that delayed the closing of Vets at least if not more of the schools.

Hey Bluenose: You want to "negotiate like a man." Sounds like a plan. As a Warwick resident - and yes taxpayer - I'd like to start with your 90 (or is it 99?) sick days a YEAR. Who gets 90 sick days a year when they work 180? And don't give me the "we don't get TDI" b.s. as WISE (I'll avoid the obvious jokes here) was offered TDI and turned it down!

I'll agree with you on one thing, it is time to sit down and "negotiate like a man" on all parts. The first thing you should do is look around the world outside of education and see that for most people in the workforce a 1% annual raise is the norm these days. A 5% raise is unheard of the last decade. Some have not seen raises in years and some have had to endure pay cuts. Time for WISE to get their heads out of their collective backsides and get in tune with the reality of the economy in RI. That would be negotiating "like a man." Bet you won't.