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Based upon the dismal academic performance of Pilgrim students, this "sick out" day is unlikely to have any impact, other than to further alienate the teachers' union from those that pay their salaries. Please, please stop with the "...education is an investment.." idiocy as 'investors' are avoiding the Warwick public schools like the plague if at all possible. If the elected school board had a scintilla of fortitude, they would reduce the number of sick days to two per year in any new contract, to the extent that there needs to be any type of collective bargaining agreement in the first place. We've seen the academic impact of the existing contract, and it's deplorable. In the dreaded private sector, these people (who insist upon being called "professionals") would be fired!