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Any cost savings from closing a few school buildings is small potatoes, and will be meaningless in the long run. My property tax bill says (a "did you know?" type disclosure) that schools get over half of what I pay. If current enrollment is 9000 students, and designed capacity was 20000, then we cannot afford to operate the schools at the capacity they were operated at in the past. This means there is something seriously wrong, and it's not extra school buildings. The largest share of the schools costs come from things the taxpayer or even elected officials have essentially little control over. We live in a class society, where one class has constitutionally guaranteed rights (guaranteed in some states, and in RI some argue the effect is the same). Until this changes, the underlying issues motivating building closures will forever repeat.