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John Barry,

Thank you for your insightful and fact-based posts. I am a member of the LTFPC and a parent with two children at Aldrich Junior High School. The decision to "re-purpose" Vets and close Aldrich and Gorton was not entered into lightly by any of us. Six of the Committee members are parents with children in the Warwick Public Schools. All three feeder groups are represented. We have parents from Toll Gate area, Vets area and Pilgrim area. We take our responsibility as members of the Committee seriously, and it is difficult not to respond to some of the erroneous and false information that is floating around regarding our recommendation. All of our meetings have been open for the public to attend, and any documents people wish to see can be found either on the WPS website or the Secretary of State's website. The members of the LTFPC are intelligent, thoughtful people who are independent thinkers. Regarding the Administrators on the Committee: Dr. D'Agostino, Mr. Mullin and Mr. Bushell provided us with every piece of documentation we asked for regarding consolidation; financials, population data for the last 15 years, population projections for the next 20 years, mock schedules to see how the integration of three schools into one would impact the day to day schedule at the remaining two high schools, how many classrooms are being utilized at each high school every day. There were transportation studies, and how school location relative to the 95 on ramps will impact athletics, as well as the transporting of students to the vocational school. We were given pages and pages of information to read and impact studies that included the elementary schools. I don't think I listed everything; what I can tell you is we as a Committee, have read, studied and debated all scenarios and this decision we have made is the one that makes the most sense, in my opinion. Also, the work done by Mr. Ferrucci, Mr. O'Hare and Mr. Janssen (financial data, transportation data, facilities data) to provide the Committee with detailed information was extremely valuable when making this difficult decision.

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