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Mr. Maloney, did my measly post really require five different responses? You seem like a well-intentioned guy. But you've lived in Warwick, and probably RI for far too long. You're enmeshed in governmental pathology. The per pupil cost is simple: Annual budget divided by number of students educated. It's a parameter that's used across the country, but only in hushed tones in RI because it's an astronomical number. So I'll stick with my $17k per pupil. Special education has expanded (perhaps #*&%@ized) the definition because, again, it's good for business and results in more special ed teaching jobs. No one in the special ed industry has any interest in refining the definition of "educationally handicapped" as originally intended by PL 94-142, because such a refinement would result in less need for special ed teachers. Hendricken's "annual alumni ourtreach program" generates enough money to pay for 8 kids to go to the school, or less than 1% of current enrollment. It's more at LaSalle, in part, because LaSalle has been around for seventy additional years. And who, exactly, is enacting this myriad of mindless regulations and programs for the schools to follow? The GA. And who is in the pockets of the GA? The teachers' union, in little more than an incestuous make-work relationship. The union has never met a regulation it doesn't like. "No Warwick HS grad gives back to the school this way." Perhaps that says something. Public schools are a function of government, and government never, ever, seeks to get smaller or more fiscally responsible. And more and more, government is 'regulating' good students right out of government schools, leaving a smaller, less literate, less employable, but far more expensive pie. As for the city budget, you'll get no argument from me because it is, again, government.

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