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Dear davebarry109,

Everything you said is correct except that you keep blaming the teachers. Their income, according to Salary.com is $160 a year more than Barrington teachers, and Warwick teachers educate FAR more students. Plus, as you know, they had to fight FOR 2 YEARS in order to even GET their 3% raise which netted less than $25 dollars a week. Their salaries are not the issue, especially with all the lay-offs they endured. It's the $165,000,000 budget that the taxpayers are paying! One and a half BILLION since 2009. I agree that some of that is going to salaries and pensions, but taxpayers need to see a INDEPENDANT AUDIT to get a clear picture, not an audit from friendly fellow-school-administrators from Pawtucket. If that shows abuse by the teachers, I will be the first one to say so. I strongly believe it will show massive abuse by the School Committee. Why else would they be so secretive? Why else would they insist on being the ones that selected this so-called "independent auditor"? Shouldn't it have been selected by lottery or the City Council?

Happy Autumn davebarry109.

Happy Autumn everyone.