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While you may view it as "silly," studies do indicate that schools that are over a thousand students do lose benefits associated with the smaller intimacy of schools that ideally should be between 600 to 900 students.

Warwick does owe an apology to the students of Vets and Pilgrim that were subjected to double sessions in late 1960s and early 1970s, which was only relieved by building Toll Gate in an atmosphere of a crisis. There was never an adequate plan for these schools. What ever students were in a school's district went to that school with no thought given to whether there were too many students for the school to function properly. There has been never been planning for proper school size in Warwick. We are just lucky now that we have fallen into the near ideal size high schools due to a decline in enrollment. It was obvious by the reaction of Vets students and their parents that this small environment has succeeded in giving the students confidence that the teachers and administrators at Vets care about them and they care about their school. We should not destroy this obvious beneficial environment. (I graduated from Vets in 1978; please don't tell me about the good old days.)

Also, according to RIDE, there were only 500 students at Aldrich and 461 at Gorton. If Vets were closed, we heard that about 600 of former Vets students would go to Pilgrim and a little over 300 would go to Toll Gate. If 600 Vets student could fit into Pilgrim why couldn't 500 Aldrich students and why couldn't 461 at Gorton students fit at Vets? However, I do not think this would be the best solution; but if WPS insist on closing a building it would be the least disruptive to the current students. Remember that Gorton, Aldrich, and Lockwood started as schools from 7th to 12th grade. It would be best to leave the high schools as they are and put 6th grade in the junior highs and add all day kindergarten. We have heard about how old our junior high schools are and are not worth maintaining for decades now; for example, WPS tried to close them in 1980s. However, when Lockwood was closed it was not knocked down; it still stands as a nice apartment building that apparently was not too old to continue to maintain.

Its obvious that the LTFPC did not consider the impact that consolidation would have on the students and it did not take any factors into consideration other than costs.

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