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Cutting Warwick's ALAP program is more evidence of what a mess the Warwick School Department / School Committee is and how it has a complete lack of direction and leadership. After Tuesday's School Committee meeting its ever more clear that there was and is no plan to meet the needs of Warwick's gifted and talented students post-ALAP.

It defies logic to cut a program THEN come up with alternatives to meet the needs of the students that program supported. To make things worse, many of the alternatives suggested, particularly the after-school "enrichment" program, weren't at all intended to meet the needs of the gifted and talented students in Warwick. Ms. Backus insults our best and brightest students first by cowardly abstaining from voting whether to keep or cut ALAP, then takes that insult further by suggesting an alternative at the very next school committee meeting that doesn't meet the needs of these gifted students.

I continue to believe that ALAP is an excellent program that serves the gifted and talented elementary students in Warwick well. While its imperative that ALAP be reinstated, if it is not to be part of Warwick's long term plan (if a long term plan even exists) the next best option, in my opinion, is to keep ALAP until a suitable alternative can be identified, planned, and implemented. The current cut-first, plan-later process doesn't serve students and parents well, and is simply foolish. The students and parents in Warwick deserve better.

If I acted in my professional life the way the school administration and school committee has handled ALAP and school planning in general, I wouldn't have a professional life.

From: Parents say new programs can't replace ALAP

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