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So you would have been ok if they closed Pilgrim over Vets??? We live in the City of Warwick, in the State of RI, where there are counties all over this country which are larger than this state. So I have a hard time with the location issue. I don't think the committee was emotional in making their decision, I think it was the parents who were emotional. I would assume that Tollgate wouldn't be considered because it is the newest of all the HS and in far better shape than most of the schools in the City and it's campus houses the Vocational school. As far as your argument of impact on students being separated from friends, I don't think you give our kids enough credit. Plus I don't think it is a very good argument at all. Children attend school for an education purposes not because that is where their friends go. Again we live close enough to each other that if friendship bonds will continue to exist just outside of the school they attend. "Good" teachers losing their jobs based on seniority already is happening. Something else I disagree with. I don't think anyone should lose their jobs based on seniority, it should be based on performance and you can't blame that on anyone but the unions. Bottom line is (in my opinion) 400k should have been allocated in a manner in which it would be used to directly impact children in the classrooms. A school closing is inevitable and there will be a group of people unhappy over the decision, but that can't not dictate what needs to be done.

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