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Since my children have gone through the Warwick school system and they have had poor math skills I can state that the problem lies in pushing through the students who struggle just to meet your quotas instead of keeping them back and letting them learn the fundamentals. What good does it do to step them up even when they don't understand only to hit the road block in Junior year? Classrooms are too big, teachers are too rushed and department night can't fix years of misunderstanding basics. And the you get to the end and say you can't graduate? Added to that you make them do their senior project, their portfolio, etc and expect them to keep up. Too much burden is put on them to meet Rhode Island Department of Education standards rather than actually learning. Enough is enough. Your goals and standardization policies hurt more than they help.