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SteveD, I agree. I am 53 years old and have lived here all my life, except from 1987 to 1990. I think that this City is a nice place to live and I have no intention of moving out of it. Those that bash this City and push for only costs cuts no matter the consequences obviously do not care about the long-term interest of this City and even their own property values. We should be looking at what is best for our school-aged residents because that is in the long-term benefit of both this City and its taxpayers' property values. If residents and prospective residents believed that our schools were so good that it would be a waste of money to send their children to parochial high schools, which now cost about $15,0000 a year, that would be a dramatic incentive for middle and upper-middle class families to stay or move to Warwick. This would push up property values in Warwick. Some of Warwick's neighborhoods are just as nice as those in Barrington. However, many middle and upper middle class families choose Barrington because they perceive that it has a better school system and therefore they can save tens of thousands by avoiding sending their children to parochial or private school. Just sending two children to La Salle would cost a family about $30.000 a year. Let's set our sites high, we can compete with any Town or City in Rhode Island. If the best high school at least approach the 600-900 students range, which the studies that I cited demonstrate, then we should keep our high schools near that range.

P.S. Barrington High School has 1,038 students (according to its website) which is only slightly more students than our high schools currently do. East Greenwich currently has less than 800 students. We should try to compete with Barrington and East Greenwich-not Cranston, Providence, and Central Falls.

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