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Dave Testa,

With respect, yes, it can be done. And Warwick has some terrific kids. But broadly, it's simply NOT being done. You mentioned three exceptional kids in the last two years. Nearly 1300 kids graduated in those two years! I'm sure many others went on to good schools. But you generally don't evaluate a school using the top kids as a variable, nor do you use the bottom kids. Rather, there's a fat middle that is clearly being poorly served. Fewer than 1 in 4 Pilgrim juniors was deemed to be competent in Math by RICAS results. At Tollgate, fewer than 1 in 3. Meanwhile, 20% of Tollgate's junior class is deemed to be educationally handicapped. What is going on up there?! A few miles away at East Greenwich, 76% of juniors are deemed competent, and 6.7% are educationally handicapped. And btw, EG spends about 15% less per student than Warwick. There are demographic differences, I get it. But those discrepancies are astounding! Has anyone on the SC committee taken a deep dive with all this? Does anyone even know? And if people do know, what is being done to hold school leaders accountable? By any reasonable definition, the system is failing, failing badly, and appears to be getting worse. And it is most certainly not a question of money.