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I support the committee's recommendation as a long time coming. However, the declining population in RI and in Warwick is NOT "...due in part to airport expansion into the Vets area." Rather, it is due largely to deteriorating economic opportunities in RI. Somehow, communities adjacent to Manchester Airport in NH continue to expand at the same time the continues to expand. Why? Economic opportunities in NH ALSO continue to expand.

Second, I don't buy Mr. Racca's argument that Warwick's athletic futility is attributable to enrollment. Pilgrim is not significantly smaller than Shea, Central, or West Warwick, while being significantly larger than Rogers and St. Raphael. Yet, the Pats' football team either has been or is soon to be rolled by all those schools. Ditto Tollgate, who was beaten 35-6 by a smaller Johnston High, and 40-14 by a small Westerly High. High school teams, for the most part, play against schools with a similar enrollment. The difference is that many other communities still place importance on high school athletics, while many in the Warwick school system (adults, not the kids) stopped caring years ago. It will be interesting to see if Pilgrim and TG move up to Division 1 in most sports next year when their new enrollments would justify it.

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