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Short term-delay/postpone the closing of Gorton(or any other junior high in Warwick).

Long term(Sept. 2014- PLAN on which junior hign & senior high school Warwick will close;even with a middle school model model approach, it is undeniable that Warwick's student enrollment has declined by approx. 10, 000 since 1969-the current model or a middle school model still has the same undeniable fact-decliniing overall student enrollment. Whether this fall there is an anticipated overall increase of aprox. 72(at the junior high level) is overall insignificant-the 3 junior high's are still approx. half capacity.

It's time to make the choices- Warwick School Administration should be REDUCING positions, not asking for additional ones! Teachers, overall school staff positions, likewise! Long term, these are where cost savings will come. If you reduce schools, it's obvious some students will need to be bused outside their current districts, an unfortunate inconvenience, but not devastating! By reducing staff at ALL levels, including reducing school locations/operations, will provide overall long term savings that can be allocated to educational programs/offerings. Warwick should be looking at Cranston-similar size/student enrollment. Cranston has eliminated programs in the past(art & middle school music) that Warwick takes for granted(Cranston has found alternative ways to fund these).

It would be nice if everyone could get what they wanted, local schools within walking distance within their respective neighborhoods; this choice doesn't exist under any present model/proposed model. The problems Warwick School system faces are not about Gorton vs. Aldrich or why Winman has more teachers per non-weighted students than Aldrich or Gorton.

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