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Bob,

I said that we did not dwell on the emotional impact, your kind of putting words in my mouth there. I clarified that I mis-spoke when i said that 7-12 wouldn't fit. The fact that Aldrich and Gorton are incredibly well built by itself does not mean that it neecessarily follows that it remains a school forever. I disagree that we did not go in with an open mind. we acknowledged that the Vets athletic fields were better but in the end, athletics should not drive consolidation. I also think that Pilgrim had more parking spaces then Vets (though I'd have to double check that). Wecould go on but it boils down to you and I have a different view on how to handle the steadily declining student population and I just don;t think we;'ll agree.

Also, we need to clear some things up a bit. You flatter me by saying that I have 'followers' as if I'm somehow directly or indirectly leading something. Trust me, I'm not nor do I even know who the posters on this site are, nor am I running for anything - tried that already twice and was unsuccessful. As an aside, you wield the Tea Party moniker like any of the hosts on MSNBC who tie every issue in the country today to them. You obviously don';t agree with those who sympathize with Tea Party issues but subtly denigrating them serves little purpose here. Not everyone who criticizes their city's spending of tax dollars is a Tea Partier, I've always been interested in good public schools, I'm a product of them and my kids are in them, just like you and your children. I've been very involved in our schools for the last dozen or so years and the community as a whole doesn't bash our schools. People will not come to Warwick because we have 'moderately sized' high schools. They'll come if we have high performing schools (or a school system that can at least break the top half of the pack). But when we consistently finish in the middle of the pack and below in the state that is an issue and and that is simply not directly related to the size of our high schools. There are more substsantive factors that create that result.

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