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Mr. Savage,the 7-12 model doesn;t work because Common Core curriculum is not written to that grade configuration (it's written to a 6-8 middle school model) and none of the high schools can physically hold that many students anyway. We could go to 6-8 tomorrow in the 3 JH;s but do we want to do that with two of the three buildiings that are over 70 years old and in need of millions of capital improvement costs? And, the LTFPC looked at 7-12 and rejected it because it would be very difficult to keep the students separated because the high schools were not designed for that purpose. Again there is not an accepted consensus on ideal high school size and schools within a school models are often used in large high schools. Please don't loosely use the term 'mega-school' to describe a high school of roughly 1300-1500 kids because that is not a mega school. And to think that a typical student will somehow feel lost or that his or her feelings will somehow be comrpmised in a school of 1300-1500 is, in my view silly. Are some student's tender? Of course. but remember, that class sizes are governed by contract and teachers are professionals and going from a class of say 20 to 24 is simply not a huge deal. It's not a mega school. Those are capacities that we had a handful of years ago and if your contention is that a 1300-1500 student school is a mega school that jeapordizes students emotional and physical well being, then we owe an awful lot of past graduates of Vets, TG, and Pilgrim a sincere apology for what we've done to them.

David Testa

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