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Pat, there are about 15 districts that currently have all day K according to RI Kidscount 2012 fact book. I'm not so sure that it won't be in three years nor am I so sure that it would completely unfunded. The committee members I referred to were not school committee members- they were members of the long & short term committees - parent members to be specific.. And to be frank, Beth's comments last Tuesday did not mention anything about other options to closing Gorton, did not attempt to refute any arguments brought forward in opposition to closing. It was essentially what the long term committee was told at the beginning of their meetings. It was a 'fait accompli' argument. So help me understand. They knew they'd have a funding issue this coming year and they wanted to close a building to make ends meet. They convene a long term committee to look at that issue. Long term committee votes to look at junior highs. A disagreement arises and many members of the full committee feel that closing a JH is not the way to go and put forward what I think are good arguments about the future of the district and how closing a JH could impact that. But, Beth and Admin say, 'nope, we gotta go ahead and close Gorton'. Honsetly, this slave/master mindset that these people have with respect to relationship between the schools and the city is mind-boggling. Closing Gorton, which the current superintendent wants to do, without having a long term plan is no different than what the previous superintendent did.

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