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I was at that School Committee (SC) meeting Tuesday night. I saw genuine pain on the faces of the SC. I agree with David Testa who made an amendment to put back athletics and math. I expected it to be funded by a cut elsewhere but it didn't happen. What I didn't see and what I don't understand, is why not one dollar was considered to be cut from the administration. Why couldn't the SC take a pay cut of 5 or 10% just from those administrators that make in excess of $100,000? As the SC was laying off almost 100 teachers they were adding staff like an "Assistant Principal of Climate and Culture" and an "Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning". They had the money for that and they even had money for a Public Relations firm but now they are running out of money for athletics and math?? Bad bookkeeping! The cuts of Tuesday night were described as "draconian" and "awful". If they had set the right example in the first place and start with a pay cut of their own, we wouldn't have this problem. (and the SC wouldn't need a PR firm either).

The only member that even considered cuts to the administration was Karen Bachus. She is the only member of the Warwick School Committee with enough integrity to lead-by-example. The 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab have given the SC over A BILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS since 2009 and this is the result. Bachas is right. This is a sad day in Warwick.

Happy Summer everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor