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Dear CrickeeRaven,

I like you but...You're not much of a mathematician are you?

If 27 to 50 new homes generate 1 or 2 students, the overall school budget cost of $161,000,000 gets divided by that many MORE students. That means the cost-per-student comes DOWN not UP as you say. You are able to do basic division math aren't you? You don't possibly think that the city has to pay on a per-student basis regardless as to fixed expenses do you CrickeeRaven???

I gave you much more credit than that. Just a few years ago we had about 14,000 students being educated by the same $160,000,000+- budget. That meant the cost per student was even less back then. Having these new homes with an increase of new families helps reduce our cost-per-student as anyone (but you) can see. Just divide the budget (fixed cost) by the number of students. Unless you're trying to mislead the reader. Wait a minute. You're not trying to mislead the reader are you CrickeeRaven?

Sorry you don't know how to do that third grade basic math problem. Division is challenging to you apparently. The Warwick Taxpayer has been paying the same cost of $160,000,000+- since 2009, but the number of students keeps going down (from a high of 17,000 to today's number of less than 9,000) That means the cost-per-student goes UP if we decrease the number of students and DOWN if we increase the number of students as would be the case with these new families.

All this might be too much for you to calculate. Call me at (401) 338-9900. I'll do it for you.

Happy Summer CrickeeRaven

Happy Summer everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor